Our Bodies Our Rights

This year – the hundredth anniversary year of the Suffrage movement – women around the world are still rising up to fight for their rights. From the #MeToo movement to abortion rights marches, women are speaking out against the injustices that still blight their lives. That is why Amnesty is putting women human rights defenders at the forefront of it’s Write for Rights campaign this year. REBELLION is a creative act of solidarity between women and non-binary artists, and women human rights defenders around the world. Make a statement with the clothing you wear.

Find out more about Write for Rights here: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/write-for-rights

Join Amnesty’s Feminist Network: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/join-amnesty-feminists

Campaign photography: Claudia Rocha

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Amnesty International defends individuals who are in immediate danger of serious human rights abuse. They can range from cartoonists, poets photojournalists, graffiti artists and even slogan t-shirt wearers; most of whom have been illegally detained, tortured, or sometimes killed for their activism. Everpress will donate 40% of the profits from this promotional venture to Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust, a registered charity, with charity registration number 1051681 and will pay 10% of the profits from t-shirt sales and the event (inclusive of VAT) to Amnesty International United Kingdom Section: Company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales no. 01735872.

Marga RH is a Latin American feminist activist, who lives and works in London. She uses illustration both to support the campaigns she feels passionate about, and as a medium of self-reflection and self-care. For many years Marga RH has collaborated with other campaigners in linking up efforts that are taking place at local and international level across the globe on the issue of abortion rights and reproductive justice - from draconian laws banning abortion under every circumstance, to the effects that austerity has on reproductive justice. "“The idea for this illustration was born from the brainstorming for a direct action, and shows characters that also have children with them. This is to counter the fake narrative that is sometimes heard from anti-choicers, arguing that pro-choice activists are against life, or against newborns. It is quite the opposite: campaigning for reproductive rights means being supportive of a women's* right to decide over her body; it means respecting the dignity of the individual and their capacity to make autonomous choices when it comes to their own lives.” (*When talking about reproductive rights and justice, we must remember that these also affect trans-men and non-binary people.)" - Marga RH

“We must understand art as what happens mostly outside of the Gallery. Art is a different channel of communication, it allows us to visualise ideas of possible futures and realities, from utopias to dystopias, to make blatantly clear through a photograph, a song, graffiti, a poem, the absurdity of the inequality in the world. Art can heal. It is a medium to devolve agency to those who use it to create, it's a tool that must be understood in a democratised way.” - Margarita Rebolledo Hernández