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Public support soars for NI Bill of Rights
01 July 2009 at 08:08 by Patrick Corrigan
A whopping 83f people in Northern Ireland now think that a Bill of Rights is important for the region.
That's the finding of a survey published today by the Human Rights Consortium, a campaign coalition which Amnesty International helps to lead.
The poll, carried out by Northern Ireland's largest independent market research organisation Millward Brown Ulster, shows that support is eq
Israeli Navy rams peace boat: NI Nobel laureate seized
01 July 2009 at 01:05 by Patrick Corrigan
My old friend, former colleague and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire was among the peace and justice activists aboard a Greek cargo ship intercepted, rammed and boarded by the Israeli navy yesterday.
The Amnesty office in Belfast took a call from Mairead just as the boat had been boarded: she was anxious to get the word out to Amnesty researchers and the ...
Flying the (rainbow) flag for equality
29 June 2009 at 03:53 by Patrick Corrigan
Conall (who's been providing plenty of food for thought recently on Belfast and Beyond) notes that the Belfast, unlike Dublin, does not yet fly rainbow flags to mark the city's Gay Pride.
But the numbers participating in the Belfast parade (5-6,000 in each of the last couple of years) compares favourably, per capita, with the numbers out in Dublin (10-12,000 ...
Friends of America
28 June 2009 at 16:19 by Patrick Corrigan
I see that over on oconallstreet public affairs specialist Conall McDevitt is suggesting it's time for Northern Ireland to mature its relationship with the United States. I'm all for that. For too long, Northern Ireland has played the supplicant, with its hand out for economic or political assistance.
With Conall publicly speculating that it may be time for a ...
DR Congo: eyewitness report
23 June 2009 at 15:23 by Amnesty Int'l NI
Luke Moffett, a member of the Amnesty International Queen's University student group, is spending the summer volunteering in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He sends this short report for Amnesty Blogs.
I'm just back from spending a few days in and around Goma in the DRC. It is really, really grim.
There are nearly 100,000 refugees around the town who