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Please take action to stop Azerbaijan persecuting the LGBTI community https

Azerbaijan: stop persecuting the LGBTI community Tell Azerbaijan to immediately release all detained LGBTI individuals arrested during the 22 September raids. The rights of all people in Azerbaijan regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity must be protected.

Act now to demand an end to the violence

Stop the violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar Reports are flooding in of killings, r**e and massacres by the Myanmar security forces, as satellite images suggest that entire villages have been burned. Take action and demand the authorities ends the shocking violence now.

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Rohingya: the deadly situation and what to do about it Tens of thousands of people are at risk of serious human rights violations in Myanmar, and aid efforts have been shut down.

A good breakthrough on the subject of the panel discussion we held a year ago – the government is now saying it will fund abortions for people from Northern Ireland on the NHS in England.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40438390

🗳🇪🇺🕯 GENERAL ELECTION ACTION! 🕯🇪🇺🗳

At our meeting on Monday, we tweeted at our candidates asking them whether, if they won, they would guarantee the right of EU citizens to remain in the UK.

Now that campaigning has resumed, please take a moment to do the same (photo optional!) - here's how:

- Visit https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/ and enter your postcode. The site shows all the candidates standing in your constituency.

- You can click on each one to find more details about them, including their Twitter name if they have one.

- Tweet at them asking them to guarantee EU citizens' right to remain in the UK if elected. You can put multiple Twitter names in one tweet (see attached examples), but you may need to do more than one tweet if you have a lot of candidates on Twitter!

- Include "" in your tweet if you'd like to copy us in as well!

Hopefully you'll soon have responses back from the candidates, and importantly they'll realise this is an issue that matters to their voters, so if they're elected they need to act on it!

Thanks to everyone who came to our Spring Social last night! It turned out to be a very successful evening as we came 1st place in Strongroom's pub quiz and won £45 for Amnesty (and a bottle of prosseco for us). Good work everyone!

Met police look at allegations of Saudi war crimes in Yemen: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/02/met-police-examine-allegations-saudi-arabia-war-crimes-yemen

Take action to stop UK-made weapons killing in Yemen:
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/stop-uk-made-weapons-claiming-yemeni-lives

Met police look at allegations of Saudi war crimes in Yemen Scotland Yard’s move risks sparking diplomatic row as Theresa May prepares to visit Arab state to talk up closer trade links

Our Strategy Day is coming up this weekend. Come along and shape the future of Amnesty LDN https://www.facebook.com/events/245811489172563/

Thanks so much to everyone who came along to our Writing Around the AmnesTree - Amnesty LDN social last night! We have so many cards and letters to post now – what a great contribution to this year's Write for Rights campaign.

Have a great festive season everyone, and watch this space to find out what Amnesty LDN will be up to in 2017!

🎄Very excited for our festive event tonight!🎄 There's still time to sign up at:

http://bit.ly/amnestyldnwfr2016

The more the merrier!

Register for Amnesty LDN Write For Rights events in November and December 2016 Monday 21 November and Monday 12 December 2016, 7pm, Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3EA

Thanks very much to everyone who came to our Write For Rights introduction event this evening, especially all our wonderful panellists, including Director of Amnesty UK, Kate Allen!

This Wednesday evening (2 Nov) it's our next planning meeting, on Level 2 of the Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre beginning at 7.30pm. Anyone who'd like to help keep the group running and plan our next few events is welcome to come along. Look out for our yellow Amnesty LDN sign to find us!