Amnesty International forced to apologise for branding Christians 'anti-rights'

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Amnesty International UK has issued a public apology after a briefing document branded Premier and scores of Christian charities, gender-critical campaigners, and pro-life organisations as "anti-rights." The human rights body accepted full responsibility, stating that the report — titled 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK' — ought never to have been released.The document alleged that dozens of groups were undermining the rights of women and LGBT+ individuals, and recommended that their charitable status be reconsidered.Amnesty confirmed it has launched an internal investigation into how the briefing was produced and published.The organisation also pledged to commission an independent external review to examine what went wrong.The apology followed widespread criticism after the report was initially circulated in July.Among the Christian bodies explicitly identified in the briefing were the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales, the Evangelical Alliance UK,...

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