Amnesty International UK has expressed regret for calling the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales an “anti-rights” organization in a report on women and trans rights.
The report, titled A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK, was published last week and immediately caused a furor as it also targeted a sexual violence support center set up by Harry Potter author, JK Rowling, because Rowling does not believe men who self-identify as women should be allowed to use women-only spaces.
The report listed 117 organizations it said were working to ‘undermine’ the rights of women and LGBT+ people.
This included the bishops’ conference, Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), the Evangelical Alliance UK, the Christian Institute, Christian Concern, and the Catholic Herald newspaper. The report called for the charity status of many of the organizations to be reviewed.
Amnesty International UK has now said the report was uploaded without the usual checks and that it had been temporarily withdrawn. However, it issued a very similar report last year, albeit with a smaller number of organizations on its hit-list.
















