Amnesty International what has happened to you?

I thought so too, that the money from US have stopped coming.

timestressed · Today 10:29
IMHO AI seems to be in some financial trouble

I wonder if they were one of the charities that received payment from America which Donald Trump then stopped.
Or maybe they are receiving fewer donations thanks to their losing the plot.

Good, I hope they go bust. Then a new organisation can take up the cases of political prisoners, jailed journalists etc. Like Amnesty used to do before it was taken over by people on huge salaries who are unable/don’t want to think for themselves.

IMHO AI seems to be in some financial trouble. Threatening to close one of their charity bookshops in North London.
Change.org has petition on this subject.

Has the person on the left got a pride bracelet, and then liked it so much that they got another one to hang off it?

Or are they on 2-for-1 special offer right now?

Aggressively adopting the stance of the perpetual victim can bring you a huge amount of power.

Agree that, I think, the person on the left is a pregnant transman but cannot figure out the person on the right. No mention then of needing healthcare for botched surgeries. I wonder what the statistics are for post op complications of SRA surgery.

They are becoming increasingly irrelevant, there are so many countries in the world who are treating their citizens so badly but none of them are paying the slightest bit of attention to what organisations like Amnesty have to say.

The only audience they have is in the West, so they've had to tailor their message to suit the concerns of the West, in order to stay relevant, and as the West is consumed with this genderwang, so now are they.

Amnesty can get fooked. I'll never forgive them for declaring Sal Grover's defeat in court as a massive victory. And for the very misleading image which may have led many to believe that the woman in the photo was Roxy. Thankfully Twitter responded.

I'm another one who was very involved in Amnesty until they lost the plot and started using scant resources to support the wants of men in safe democratic countries. Like Stonewall, it's an organisation with such an admirable history. It's heartbreaking to witness their trajectory in recent years.

What @HappyNewTaxYear said.

It’s an easier gig though isn’t it. Middle-aged pervs in secure situations versus difficult and dangerous regimes. Order fifty thousand rainbow bracelets, and look, your job is done. Add it to LinkedIn and move on to your next social justice warrior post.

When I ran a letter-writing group it was for religious or political prisoners who had been locked up without trial in terrible conditions in countries like Iran and Yemen. Given that I’m not aware that the Iranian regime has become all cuddly-bunny since then, the notion that middle aged men in the U.K. who want oestrogen and boob jobs (in a country with free NHS healthcare!) are suffering some kind of similar deprivation of rights is really grotesque.

Women and girls really are being denied their basic rights “to exist” in Afghanistan, and yet where is the big campaign on this? Instead, Amnesty is fannying around trying to claim that trans people (read: MEN) in Western countries are being “denied access to healthcare” and “attacked by the government”. What fecking nonsense, Amnesty. WE SEE YOU.

I first came across Amnesty International when they were supporting political prisoners in the former Yugoslavia in the late 1980s. Presumably no countries have such people now 🙄

If the person on the left is a pregnant transmen (a woman), a more suitable message would be that we have to thank the SC for clarifying that transmen don't lose their pregnancy rights!

I supported AIUK for years, and helped run a local group. I was so proud of some of the campaigns we ran, for example Amnesty had a long-standing policy of not running campaigns about a country in that country because it could be dangerous, but made an exception when they ran a huge UK campaign highlighting Violence Against Women. We campaigned for political prisoners, for womens groups, for imprisoned journalists, we did letter writing, we went into schools and ran workshops, we kept our local MPs informed about our work, it was full on , and for some people it made a huge difference to their lives.

Then they drank the free kool aid Stonewall et al gave out and AIUK and I parted company because I felt there were far more important Human Rights abuses that needed the AIUK spotlight than the ones they seemed to think warranted a heavy use of limited resources. And looking at how they are today I made the right decision.

I now support MSF who have boots on the ground and do make a difference.

And yes, I do know that many countries make life impossible for gay or trans identifying people.

It is a bit odd. I think it's an overweight man in black with his arm touching another man in white trousers (that fit in a weird way so it outlines his penis).
It'd certainly an odd choice of photo, maybe meant to represent 2 gay men?

I'm see a pregnant transman and a transwoman with period cramps. Well they did mention healthcare for trans, so.....

Yep, it's a terrible photo. Why they chose it is beyond me.

The trust fund intern designed it for them…

It probably is the intention. But they could have just shown the bracelet, or the bracelet on a hand, or lots of whole people each wearing one.

Showing cut off bits of 2 people in an uninterpretable pose (and an odd pleather jerkin) is a strong distraction from the bracelet point, without making any apparent alternative or additional point.

Poor Healthcare???

Oooo does that mean AI are going to start protesting on behalf of all women who have a range of genealogical problems that have been massively ignored throughout the history of medicine? Brilliant can’t wait.

^This, absolutely. When I see dishonest and inflated claims made by organisations on this issue, I automatically assume that they are doing the same thing elsewhere and are either bad faith actors or they’re on the grift. It’s a huge shame, I used even to organise letter-writing sessions years ago at uni, but any trust I had in Amnesty as a reputable organisation has been completely destroyed by their shilling for the trans nonsense.

I think we are meant to look at the person on the left who is wearing the lovely Amnesty Pride bracelet and think, 'Oh, that's lovely. I need one of those' and then we will all buy one to show our allegiance to all things Trans and to stick it to the meanies at the Supreme Court.