Create and write solidarity cards for people suffering human rights abuses.
Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign sees thousands of letters and cards posted to support families affected and calls for justice for prisoners of conscience.
On 10th December, International Human Rights Day, artist Catherine Cartwright is running two creative card-making and writing workshops. Drop in and make one or many cards, write your messages of support and leave your donation to cover postage and materials.
Suggested donation £2 per card. Any surplus donations will be...
Create and write solidarity cards for people suffering human rights abuses.
Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign sees thousands of letters and cards posted to support families affected and calls for justice for prisoners of conscience.
On 10th December, International Human Rights Day, artist Catherine Cartwright is running two creative card-making and writing workshops. Drop in and make one or many cards, write your messages of support and leave your donation to cover postage and materials.
Suggested donation £2 per card. Any surplus donations will be...
As part of "Global Days of Action" to support Guantánamo hunger strikers, on Friday 17 May in Chicago, demonstrators marked the 100th day of another hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, where inmates have been protesting their indefinite detention by the U.S. government on terrorism charges.
Protesters, dressed in orange overalls, went outside the Federal Plaza and began a march through the Loop and ending at Daley Plaza. Organised by The Chicago Coalition to Shut Down Guantánamo (World Can't Wait Chicago, White Rose, IL Coalition Against Torture, Witness Against...
Hundreds of people protested in Karannah, a northern district of the Kingdom of Bahrain, on Monday in preparation for what has been dubbed the 'dignity protest' due to take place on February 14th.
Men, women and children have marched through the streets carrying flags and banners in protest against the regime.
With regards to the upcoming strike, activists have explained that:
"The forthcoming dignity strike on February 14th is a strike for one day only, and is an introduction to the steps to be taken in the path of civil disobedience which will be painful to the...
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's trip to Berlin has been met with protesters condemning police brutality in his country.
Demonstrators gathered in front of the Chancellery to protest against Morsi, and urge their own leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, not to export arms to Egypt.
The protest is especially notable given the latest eruption of unrest, and harsh crackdowns by the police, over the weekend and continuing into this week. On Wednesday morning alone two people were killed in Tahrir Square, downtown Cairo.
Severe clashes between protesters and police broke...
