Write 4 Rights 2022

December 18, 2022

W4R is Amnesty International’s annual campaign, sending greetings cards to prisoners of conscience, their families 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 […]

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South America Newsletter December 2022

December 3, 2022

This month we bring you news from Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Argentina and Chile. Amnesty has issued new reports on gender-based violence in Colombia and Ecuador and on institutional racism in Brazil. A transgender couple from Paraguay has been chosen for this year’s Write for Rights Campaign and we encourage you to write […]

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Quiz Night Autumn 2022

November 13, 2022

Many thanks to everyone who came to our Quiz Night, We had a full house and raised over £320. Special thanks to the Brunswick for the giving us a great venue, for free; David Rogers for setting the questions and Sally Hawsworth for being the hostess. If anyone wants a copy of the questions for […]

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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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