Posted on 07/13/2026 11:31:49 PM PDT by Cronos
Amnesty International UK has expressed "regret" over the publication of a report that labelled dozens of Christian, pro-life and gender critical organisations as "anti-rights".
The report was hastily removed from Amnesty's website last week after it triggered a huge backlash, with JK Rowling and John Cleese among the high profile figures denouncing it.
At the time, Amnesty said the report had been temporarily withdrawn so that an internal review could be carried out.
In a further statement addressing the furore on Monday, Amnesty International UK said the report had not gone through the proper internal checks before being published on its website.
"We regret that this briefing was uploaded to our website without going through the established internal review processes that are in place to ensure consistency, accuracy and alignment with Amnesty International UK's positions," a spokesperson said.
"Its use of language does not reflect the position of Amnesty International UK which is why it was promptly removed.
"We remain committed to defending human rights, including both the rights of women and the rights of trans people.
"Human rights protections are strongest when they apply equally to everyone, and no community should be singled out for unfair treatment or denied their dignity and rights."
The report had claimed that the UK faced a "growing threat" from an "anti-rights movement" which it alleged was "fostering moral panic" and working to "roll back human rights protections”, especially for women and LGBT+ people.
The report called on the Charity Commission to review the charitable status of an extensive list of organisations that supposedly formed this "anti-rights movement".
Numerous Christian and pro-life groups were listed, including The Christian Institute, the Evangelical Alliance UK, the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales, Christian Concern, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), and CARE - all of which are socially conservative.
They rejected being labelled "anti-rights" and expressed regret over Amnesty's drift from its roots, having been founded by a devout Christian to be a voice for religious and political prisoners of conscience.
Ciarán Kelly, Director of The Christian Institute, said: “Amnesty has fallen a long way from its origins defending prisoners of conscience. Now it has a pick ‘n’ mix approach to human rights
“Tragically, this doesn’t include the right to life for babies in the womb, the rights of women being exploited through prostitution, or the rights of freedom of conscience and speech.”
Many of the organisations on the report's blacklist were pro-life and crisis pregnancy centres.
Pro-life advocate Fleur Elizabeth Meston said: “It is rather sad to see Amnesty International, founded by a devout Christian to defend prisoners of conscience, now branding people with the ‘wrong’ consciences as ‘anti-rights’.
"Its founder, Peter Benenson, built Amnesty around freedom of thought, conscience, religion and expression. Today, Amnesty treats disagreement on abortion and sex-based rights, and even belief in Christian teachings, as though they were a threat to humanity.
“Saying biological sex matters is not anti-rights. Campaigning to protect unborn children is not anti-rights. In fact, those of us who hold these beliefs just want human rights for women and babies too.
“Amnesty can waste its time creating these reports, rather than helping those in real danger around the world, but smearing lawful, mainstream organisations as ‘anti-rights’ is completely unworthy of its founding mission.”
Amnesty faced particularly strong criticism for including on the list Beira's Place, a service for female victims of sexual assault that was founded by JK Rowling.
Also accused of being "anti-rights" was For Women Scotland, which secured the landmark Supreme Court ruling declaring that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. It was among the groups demanding an apology.
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What a coinky-dink!
Regards,
A major cover your ass move. IMO. I doubt the truthfulness or serious feelings of these people.
John Cleese has done his last fundraiser for Amnesty. Of course, he was getting long in the tooth, so ...
Do not underestimate the communists. We are in a soft war with evil right now. They are telegraphing their intents. Make no mistake, when they take power across the globe, white Christians will be the first group they target for extermination.
Western civilization as we know it is ethnically white, founded on the morality and ethics of Christianity, and based on ancient European civics. They hate everything about those things and want them undone.
Agreed. Be safe
What about goats? Don't they have a right to a life free from being raped too?
Funny that, all Christians effectively.
The excuse is insulting, we are to believe somehow this was an accidental, almost typo kind of error to include so many groups from a very specific demographic.
Nothing more than a filthy lie, one that is not only excused but expected as part of the satanic verses’ doctrine.
The idea that the only issue was a review got skipped shows the contempt they have for us. We are supposed to ignore than teams of people included / added these organizations and should not be concerned that all those very evil people are still there pushing this hate.
There should not be a single muslin / socialist / communist in any western power structure or organization, EVER!
Amnesty International UK knows what will happen to its people if any Islamic organization or any organization even loosely affiliated with Islam was put on that list!
Amnesty International and SPLC are two peas is a sack of s***. Side by side lying twins.
Amnesty International doesn’t understand that not all things people do are their rigts. They believe that morality, or more importantly lack there of, are tied to rights.
Why express regret? Seriously. Amnesty International is part of the Leftist blob that attacks anything traditional. Its not a neutral organization. It sure as Hell doesn’t fight for the rights of persecuted Christians. Of course it sees Christians as a hate group. Amnesty International just needs to stop pretending and be what it is - a partisan Leftist group. If it wants to hate Christians, hate Christians. At least it won’t be hypocritical.
Believe nothing they have to say until after those that signed off on the report are fired. If that is not the first step in the “internal review”, then only lies will follow.
I regret that “Amnesty International” is not completely banned. I suspect my regret is more sincere than theirs.
This latest propaganda must have been costing them money in some way. They’ll bring it out again in a year or so.
Yeah, "the jury is instructed to ignore counsel's last remark."
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