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3rd November 2023
Write for Rights 2023: Help stop Rocky Myers’s execution

TOPSHOT - Palestinians evacuate the area following an Israeli airstrike on the Sousi mosque in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. Israel continued to battle Hamas fighters on October 9 and massed tens of thousands of troops and heavy armour around the Gaza Strip after vowing a massive blow over the Palestinian militants' surprise attack. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

27th October 2023
Demand a ceasefire by all parties in Israel and Gaza to end civilian suffering

A fireball erupts from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. We call for an urgent ceasefire.

25th October 2023
Urgent Action: Rescind evacuation order against Gaza hospitals

A Palestine boy sits on a chair with a national flag as Israeli authorities demolish a school site in the village of Yatta, south of the West Bank city of Hebron and to be relocated in another area, on July 11 2018.

25th April 2023
End Israeli Apartheid Pledge

17th April 2023
Urgent Action: Free conscientious objector Yuval Dag detained in Israel

24th November 2022
Urgent Action: Israel/OPT- Free Ahmad Manasra

25th October 2022
Protect the Protest: Regulate the trade in policing equipment.

Emine Ocak, a member of Saturday Mothers Turkish group is detained by Turkish female riot police during a demonstration on August 25, 2018 in Istanbul. - Istanbul police break up a regular demonstration by Turkish mothers and other relatives of people that were forcibly disappeared in the 1980s and 1990s, detaining dozens as they marked holding the 700th such weekly protest. (Photo by Hayri TUNC / AFP) (Photo credit should read HAYRI TUNC/AFP/Getty Images) ------- The photo shows Emine Ocak, mother of Hasan Ocak, who was forcibly disappeared in the hands of the state in 1995 at age 23. The longstanding peaceful vigil known as the ‘Saturday Mothers’ vigil first started as a response to the hundreds of reported cases of enforced disappearances during the 1980s and 1990s by relatives of people who were forcibly disappeared and to protest against the prevalent impunity for grave human rights violations of the day. The exact circumstances of the disappearances in the vast majority of cases are still unknown, including the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of victims, and those responsible have not been brought to justice. Saturday Mothers have held 699 peaceful gatherings since May 1995. During this time, many participants have faced intimidation, harassment, excessive use of force, arbitrary detention and unjust prosecution. In 1999, as a result, the organizers decided to stop holding the weekly vigils, which resumed in 2009 to continue with their demand of truth and justice for all cases of enforced disappearances. On 25 August, police in Istanbul used unnecessary and excessive force, including tear gas, plastic bullets and water cannons, to disperse participants of a weekly vigil - known as the ‘Saturday Mothers vigil’ - held for victims of enforced disappearance. The longstanding protest was marking its 700th week since it was first held in 1995. Scores of participants, including elderly relatives of people who were forcibly disappeared in the hands of the state, were ill-treated and 47 people were detained before being released from police custody later that day.

25th October 2022
Protect the Protest of Saturday Mothers/People’s weekly vigil

5th September 2022
Protect the Protest: Justice for Gustavo Gatica blinded at a protest

2nd September 2022
Protect the Protest: Joanah Mamombe, Cecillia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova prosecuted and tortured for protesting

6th July 2022
Iran: Free Narges Mohammadi, tortured for advocating for human rights!

1st February 2022
Demolish apartheid not Palestinian homes

7th August 2020
Direct Provision: 20 years too long

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