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Amnesty International UK's Outreach Networks |
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Outreach Networks put their interests, and where appropriate, professional skills to work for Amnesty International. Networks of members from various occupations and interest groups use their particular skills to help in campaigning activities. By sharing information and taking joint actions they can create far more pressure than would be possible as individuals working alone.
The Business Group was set up in 1991 by a number of Amnesty International members with a background in commerce and industry. The group encourages companies to use their influence in support of human rights, recognising that a climate in which human rights abuses occur is unlikely to provide the stability required for long term investment and economic growth. Business people can play an important role as intermediaries between Amnesty International and companies. For further information about getting involved, please e-mail us with your contact details at business@amnesty.org.uk Children's Human Rights Network Members of the Children's Human Rights Network are adults concerned about the human rights of the most vulnerable in society, children. The Network aims to raise awareness about the plight of child victims of human rights abuses, to draw attention to the particular vulnerability of children and the ways in which certain patterns of human rights violations affect them, and to campaign on behalf of individual children. For more information about our work, write to Amnesty International UK's Children's Human Rights Network, Amnesty International UK, 99-119 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4RE. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Network The LGBT Network is formed of Amnesty International UK members (and affiliated groups) who share a particular interest in raising awareness of and campaigning against human rights violations based on sexual orientation. For more information about getting involved, contact Nora Cranston: Tel: 020 7814 6200. E-mail: rainbow@amnesty.org.uk The Health Professionals' Network consists of doctors, dentists, health visitors, midwives, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists, medical students and other health care workers. They provide professional advice and support for Amnesty International's work and campaign on behalf of prisoners who are being tortured or are not receiving adequate medical attention. For more information about getting involved, please contact Nora Cranston. Tel: 020 7814 6200. E-mail: nora.cranston@amnesty.org.uk Journalists' and Booktrade Network The Journalists' Network campaigns to highlight abuses of the human rights of those working in the media and booktrades. Members get involved in a number of ways according to their interests:
For more information about getting involved please e-mail nora.cranston@amnesty.org.uk or phone Nora Cranston on 020 7417 6370 A newspaper article which explained how two Portuguese students had been arrested for making a toast to freedom provided the original motivation for Peter Benenson to form Amnesty International (AI) in 1961. Today, students are still facing human rights violations all over the world: recent research by Amnesty International indicates that in over 70 countries students and young people have suffered human rights abuses, including torture, unlawful killings and arbitrary detention. The STAN links up Amnesty International Student Groups around the UK in coordinated campaigning actions against human rights abuses. It's a vital link between Amnesty International UK and student groups and ensures that the voice of students is heard on important policy decisions. Amnesty International UK can help you to set one up and keep it going: all the information and contact details are here. Teachers and Academics Network A network of Amnesty International UK members who are professionally involved in education, the TAN covers all academic levels from nursery to postgraduate education, including adult education and informal education. The Amnesty International UK Trade Union Network aims to ensure that human rights violations against trade unionists and workers are at the forefront of Amnesty International's campaign work. It campaigns on behalf of trade unionists from around the world who face persecution, harassment and torture as a result of their legitimate trade union activity. It has the support of most national trade unions in the UK as well as many regional offices and local branches. The Trade Union Network Committee is composed of representatives of affiliated trade unions at national level, and organises events throughout the year, including an Annual Conference for trade union affiliates enabling them to get more involved in Amnesty International's campaign work. Women are in double jeopardy. Discriminated against as women, they are also as likely as men - if not more so - to become victims of human rights violations. More women and girls die each day from various forms of gender-based discrimination and violence than from any other types of human rights abuse. Every year according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), more than a million infant girls die because they are born female. Every year, because of discrimination, millions of women are mutilated, battered to death, burned alive, stripped of their legal rights, and bought and sold in an unacknowledged but international trade in slaves for domestic or sexual purposes. Because of their gender, women are at risk of a range of violent abuses by private organisations and individuals. If you would like to find out more about how you can get involved in Amnesty International's work on women's human rights, please e-mail us at women@amnesty.org.uk |