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Tapestry: detailed pictures 5


Nearly there: this is the fifth batch of detailed pictures of the tapestry now in the entrance to the Chapter House at Salisbury Cathedral.  Previous blogs have shown the first twenty panels.  Any errors of if you want to add some detail, please get in touch and we shall be happy to oblige.

Art 21Article 21: Everyone has the right to take part in the government off their country.  Voting should be regular and secret, and all votes should have equal value.  Another panel from the Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch group.

 

 

 

 

Art 22Article 22: Everyone as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realisation of economic, social and cultural rights.  This panel made by the West Wilts group.

 

 

 

 

Art 23Article 23: Everyone has the right to work and those doing the same work should get equal pay.  Everyone has the right to form and join a trade union.  A second panel from the West Wilts group.

 

 

 

 

Art 24Article 24: Everyone has the right to rest and leisure including reasonable working hours and paid holiday.  A third panel from the Frome group, this time by Fiona and Jeanne.

 

 

 

 

Art 25Article 25: Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for health and wellbeing.  People should be helped if they cannot earn a living.  A third panel from the Bristol group.

 

 

 

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Tapestry: detailed pictures 4


This is the fourth batch of pictures of the tapestry which is in the entrance lobby to the Chapter House in Salisbury Cathedral.

Art 16Article 16: Men and women have the right to marry and found a family.  No on should be forced to marry.  This panel by Carol Corke on behalf of the Isle of Wight group.

 

 

 

 

Art 17Article 17: Everyone has the right to own property.  This panel is also by the Isle of Wight group, this time made by Sue Logan.

 

 

 

 

Art 18Article 18: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.  And this panel is from our very own Salisbury group made by Fiona Donovan.

 

 

 

 

Art 19Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression.  This includes sharing ideas with people from other countries.  Another panel from the Mid Gloucester group, this time by June Styles.

 

 

 

 

Art 20Article 20: Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.  This panel was made not by an Amnesty group but by the Harbour Project in Swindon.

The Harbour Project welcomes and supports refugees and asylum seekers in Swindon.  To those who’ve risked their lives, families and homes fleeing war and persecution, they provide friendship and hope for a future.   They have been working tirelessly since the Kosovo crisis in 2000.  Today, they are aiding people from across the world.

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Tapestry: detailed pictures 3


This is the third set of detailed pictures from the tapestry currently on display at Salisbury Cathedral at the entrance to the Chapter House where a copy of Magna Carta is displayed.  It illustrates the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  A picture of the whole thing is on an earlier blog with a short video.

 

Art 11Article 11: Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.  This panel prepared by Rona Keene of the Bristol group.

 

 

 

 

Art 12Article 12: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with their privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor attacks upon their honour and reputation.  Another panel by Cari a member of the Frome group.

 

 

 

 

Art 13Article 13: Everyone has the right to freedom of movement.  Prepared by the Farringdon group.

 

 

 

 

 

Art 14Article 14: Everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.  People lose this right if they do not respect what is written here.  Another panel from the Southampton City group.

 

 

 

 

Art 15Article 15: Everyone has the right to a nationality.  Another panel from the Bristol group this time prepared by Sarah Heath.

 

 

 

 

Any errors or if you want to add a name please let us know .

 

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Tapestry: detailed pictures 2


This is the second batch of detailed pictures from the tapestry.  See a previous blog showing the full thing in all its glory and also a short video clip.

Art 6Article 6:  Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.  This panel contributed by the Southampton group.

 

 

 

 

Art 7Article 7: All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.  Made by Caroline Butler on behalf of the Cheltenham and Gloucester group.

 

 

 

 

Art 8Article 8: Everyone has the right to legal help when rights granted by a country to its citizens are not respected.  Rachel Berry made this on behalf of the mid-Gloucester group.  She also did No: 5.

 

 

 

 

Art 9Article 9:  No one should be subject to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.  Made by Cari and Judy, members of the Frome group.

 

 

 

 

Art 10Article 10:  Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal.  Made by Caroline Butler, the Regional Representative, for the groups in the south.

 

 

 

 

As before, if there are errors or anyone wants to add something, please get in touch or send a comment through this site.

 

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Tapestry: detailed pictures


In a previous blog we showed the now complete tapestry which is on display, with kind permission of the Cathedral Authorities, outside the Chapter House where one of the extant copies of Magna Carta is displayed.  The tapestry illustrates the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ratified in December 1948 in Paris.  In this, and subsequent blogs, we will be showing detailed pictures of the panels with appropriate attribution to their creators.  We will be showing them in batches of five.  Overall credit must go to Caroline Butler, the South Region Representative (AI), whose idea this was and who worked hard to bring this tapestry to its successful conclusion.

Most reading this will not be in the Salisbury area and thus may not be able to see it, but it has generated a lot of interest from visitors to the Magna Carta.  We hope in due course that it will go on to be displayed elsewhere in the south region.

Article 1This is Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.  Prepared by Liz James-Froud on behalf of the Bath Group.

Artilcle 2Article 2: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedom regardless of race, colour, sex, language, religion, belief, race or origin.  Prepared by Liza Lishman a member of the Swindon and Marlborough group.

Article 3 3Article 3: Everybody has the right to life, liberty and security of person.  This panel prepared by someone from the Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch group.

Art 4Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude.  Dot Atkins of the Isle of Wight group.

Art 5Article 5: No one should be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.  This panel prepared by Rachel Berry of the Mid Gloucester group.

If there are any corrections or additions, please get in touch.  The next set of panels will be posted up soon.

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Tapestry


December 2015

Tapestry on display

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The tapestry assembled by members of the South Region of Amnesty International, is now on display at the entrance to the Chapter House in Salisbury Cathedral.  Each panel represents one of the clauses of the UN Convention on human rights which led ultimately to the Human Rights Act in the UK.  It is this act that the current Conservative government wants to abolish.  The Chapter house is where one of the surviving copies of Magna Carta is displayed.  We are extremely grateful to the Cathedral Authorities for giving us this space to display the tapestry.  It will be on display for a few months and then will go on display elsewhere in the south region.

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UN Security Council: North Korea


North Korea is not forgotten

The UN Security Council has a chance to show that the world has not forgotten about the victims of crimes against humanity that continue to be committed in North Korea, and that those responsible will face justice

said Nicole Bjerler, Deputy Representative at Amnesty International’s UN office in New York.

This meeting should serve as a wake-up call to the North Korean authorities to put an immediate end to the systematic, widespread and grave human rights violations that persist in the country. A starting point would be for them to cooperate with the UN and let independent human rights monitors into the country.

The meeting on Thursday is a significant step forward in the UN Security Council’s commitment to address the horrific human rights situation in North Korea alongside peace and security.

“Peace and security cannot be separated from respect for human rights, accountability for perpetrators and justice for victims and their families. These issues urgently demands the Security Council’s continued attention,” said Nicole Bjerler.

International pressure on North Korea has been building since the publication of the UN Commission of Inquiry report in February 2014.  The damning report documented widespread human rights violations including forced labour, deliberate starvation, executions, torture, rape, infanticide, and up to 120,000 men, women, and children detained incommunicado in North Korea’s political prison camp system – a situation described as “without parallel in the contemporary world”.

Last December, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution which, among other measures, called on the UN Security Council to take appropriate action to ensure accountability, including through consideration of referral of the situation in North Korea to the International Criminal Court.  The General Assembly is reiterating its call in this year’s resolution, which was adopted by the Third Committee on 19 November and is to be formally adopted in the Plenary next week.

“The UN Security Council must seize the opportunity today to tell perpetrators of crimes against humanity in North Korea that ultimately they will be held accountable,” said Nicole Bjerler.

 

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Death penalty report: December


We attach the death penalty report for this month thanks to Lesley for her work on this.  The news about No to the death penaltyReggie Clemons is most welcome after years of campaigning, with the decision to ‘vacate’ the previous judgement.  It shows that persistent campaigning does work.  The decision by Mongolia to end the death penalty is welcome especially when you consider the barbaric activities of their neighbour.

On the dark side, Saudi continues to execute with a promise to put 50 people to death.

 

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The arming of the Islamic State


Amnesty publishes a report on arming of IS

Last week we had the debate in Parliament about bombing the Islamic State IS or Da’esh as some call it.  This was occasioned by the outrage in Paris and the massacre of ordinary people in that city.  Parliament voted in favour of bombing and since then we have had recriminations in the Labour party between those who voted for and those against.

It is timely therefore that a report has been published by Amnesty International called Taking Stock: the Arming of the Islamic State.  All politicians should read it.  As we have noted several times on this blog, one cannot but help notice that when pictures are shown of IS fighters, they are well equipped and armed to the teeth.  So where do all these arms come from?  The report explains where and how in great detail.

The major source is Iraq supplemented by materiel taken from the Syrian army.  The Iraq weapons were supplied by the coalition forces but because they were irresponsibly guarded, it was easy for them to be stolen or looted.  As the report puts it, ‘there were decades of irresponsible arms transfers to Iraq principally by Russia, France and China.’

The supply and transfer of weapons was governed by a global treaty adopted by the UN in 2013.  It places international human rights law, humanitarian law and criminal law standards alongside other international benchmarks for assessing the authorisation of exports and other transfers of conventional arms.

The report documents the astonishing amount of weaponry possessed by IS (the range and types are listed at the end).  Although a total of 25 countries have been identified as suppliers – including some from the former Soviet Union – it is the Security Council members P5 who are the main culprits.

The Iraq invasion cast a long shadow over the region.  Arms were poured in and in the chaos, thousands of weapons were lost to the militants.  The Arms Trade Treaty was designed to put a stop to irresponsible activity and it will take a long time to take effect.  We noted in an earlier blog that the UK and the US continues to supply Saudi Arabia which is bombing Yemen creating fertile ground for the next wave of insurrection.

It is much to be regretted that the House of Commons would not be packed or buzzing with excitement if the question of arms supplies was being debated.  Yet unless and until arms supplies are curtailed to regions such as the middle east, organisations like IS will prosper in the chaos.  Bombing the result seems a little pointless.  

 

 

IS arms report

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Iran: death penalty urgent action


No to the death penaltySalar Shadizadi

We attach an urgent action for a Young man who is facing execution in Iran.  Iran is one of the world’s leaders in executions second only to China.  Urgent actions are at the core of Amnesty’s work and involves writing to the country concerned and usually to its embassy here in the UK.  There is some evidence that they have an effect, as in this case, where execution was at least delayed as a result of international pressure.

The attachment gives all the information and the back story so if you do have time to write that would be appreciated.

Urgent action details (word)

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