Group Newsletter November 2022

November 8, 2022

Welcome to the latest newsletter. The next meeting  is on Thursday 1st December 2022 7.30pm at Moordown Community Centre. As (was) usual in December it will be more of an informal gathering as we will just be writing cards as part of Write 4 Rights (see below). Please bring along any seasonal nibbles and any (non religious) spare […]

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South America Newsletter November 2022

November 7, 2022

This month, we have updates on Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Argentina and Paraguay, as well as Amnesty’s call on governments throughout the region to fight inequality and discrimination.  You can sign a petition calling on the Colombian government to counter the discrimination and stereotyping of refugee Venezuelan women and LGBTIQ+ people; and another […]

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Europe Newsletter November 2022

November 3, 2022

Please find our latest Newsletter full of Actions and reports. Starting with a very urgent Action on Turkey, we are also campaigning for justice for Zineb Redouane, who was killed by a tear gas grenade in France. For the last year we have been campaigning against unlawful pushbacks and the inhumane and cruel treatment of […]

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South America Newsletter October 2022

October 12, 2022

This month, we update you on developments in Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, Suriname, and Argentina. In Colombia, most of the country’s dissident FARC guerrillas declared a unilateral ceasefire: during the conflict over 1,700 people were forcibly displaced by non-state armed groups, and over a million individuals from ethnic minorities were displaced. In Brazil, general […]

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Group Newsletter September 2022

October 2, 2022

Welcome to the latest newsletter. The next meeting  is on Thursday 6th October 2022 7.30pm  at Moordown Community Centre. As usual we will planning future events and updating on campaigns.  One letter action will be doing relates to the scheduling of 20 executions in Oklahoma, see below. But first, we are delighted to announce the return of our… […]

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Europe Newsletter September 2022

September 30, 2022

Here is our latest Newsletter with updates and actions. MALTA: EL HIBLU 3 The prosecution against the El Hiblu 3 has rested its case. That means that the court has finished hearing testimonies in the pre-trial period & the Attorney General will soon decide which charges to bring against the El Hiblu 3. We need […]

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South America Newsletter September 2022

September 4, 2022

Welcome to the latest South America newsletter. Several illegal armed groups in Colombia have agreed to talks after the new President proposed a conditional ceasefire, while new figures have revealed the huge numbers of deaths, kidnappings and disappearances in the civil war.  Brazilian police have arrested five more suspects of the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, […]

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Europe Newsletter August 2022

August 20, 2022

Human and civil rights continue to be under attack inside and outside Europe and need defending. This autumn Amnesty will launch a new campaign focusing on the right to protest. We know that here at home the right to protest is severely threatened by the Police , Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 , which […]

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South America Newsletter August 2022

August 10, 2022

This month we bring you news from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela and a new Urgent Action on Colombia. We report on the plight of female Venezuelan refugees in Colombia and Peru, and the ongoing serial killings of human rights defenders in Colombia. We review Amnesty’s two new updates on human rights […]

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Bourne Free and AmnesTea 2022

July 22, 2022

AmnesTea In June, at the start of Refugee week, Lucy Freeman hosted another AmnesTea at her home in Southbourne. This was an excuse to drink tea, eat cake and but some of the many donated books. Like Bourne Free, this was the first for a few years. But the weather was kind and we raised […]

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