{"id":721620,"date":"2026-07-31T21:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721620\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T21:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:06:08","slug":"amnesty-apologises-to-jk-rowlings-sexual-violence-support-centre-beiras-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721620\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty apologises to JK Rowling&#8217;s sexual violence support centre Beira&#8217;s Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In its apology Amnesty UK said: &#8220;This document should never have been published, and full responsibility for this error rests with Amnesty International UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have an ongoing internal investigation into how this briefing came to be published.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statement added that the &#8220;anti-rights&#8221; labelling did not represent Amnesty&#8217;s position as an institution, adding: &#8220;We apologise to Beira&#8217;s Place and other groups, which we categorised as gender critical organisations, which we should not have collectively labelled as anti-rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amnesty said the briefing fell &#8220;significantly short&#8221; of its standards, and an independent external review would be commissioned. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another briefing entitled Like A Snowball, which also referenced a wide range of organisations, has also been taken down. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The apology concluded that Amnesty was committed to defending marginalised groups including &#8220;women, girls, and members of the trans community&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its apology Amnesty UK said: &#8220;This document should never have been published, and full responsibility for this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}