Group Newsletter October 2021
Welcome to the latest newsletter from your local Amnesty International group.
This is relatively brief as we’ve yet to receive new updates from the Europe and South America teams (one consequence of changing to the first Thursday of the month!). But we meet a week today on
Thursday 4th November 2021 7.30pm at Moordown Community Centre
Its very nice to be back at Moordown. One event that we will be discussing on Thursday is:… |
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Write for Rights 2021
We are delighted to announce that Bournemouth library have welcomed us back to hold Write for Rights (W4R) in their foyer.. We are booked for
Saturday 11th December 2021
W4R is Amnesty International’s annual campaign, sending greetings cards to prisoners of conscience and other human rights defenders around the world. In 2019, more than 6.5 million messages of support and appeal letters were sent during the W4R campaign. They made a big difference to the people and communities confronting injustice and facing human rights violations.
We have tried numerous venues around Bournemouth over past 20 years, most outside and invariably cold or wet, sometimes both. Our W4R in Bournemouth library in 2019 was by far our most successful. So after last years enforced break it will be great to be back. We’ve yet to finalise the times, but the more help we have the longer we can stay. Please let us know if you would like to help. |
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Stop the Rights Raid
There are several Bills currently progressing through the UK Parliament which could see devastating damage to fundamental human rights protections if passed in their current forms. These proposed changes would increase the marginalisation of some of the most discriminated against in our society, and also threaten the UK’s international reputation as an upholder of international human rights principles.
Amnesty International are deeply concerned about the UK Government’s intention to ‘update’ the flagship UK human rights protection – the Human Rights Act – following the review launched in December 2020. The new Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, has already vowed to end the “nonsense” of the Human Rights Act, The Act enshrines our freedoms into UK law, is binding on public bodies and means people can go to UK courts to have their rights upheld. It is our strong view that it must remain untouched.
There is a detailed briefing from AIUK on our website. There is also a proforma latter so you can write to your MP.
https://amnestyat50.co.uk/stop-the-rights-raid
Currently there is a petition you can add your name to on the AIUK site relating to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/uk-government-stop-assault-our-freedoms |
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