The Charity Commission has opened a compliance case into Amnesty International UK’s arm, after assessing concerns, raised about a briefing that criticized various gender-critical organisations as being ‘anti-human rights’.
Amnesty International UK’s (AIUK) Charitable Trust raised a serious incident report after a published report entitled a Growing Threat :The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK which listed more than 100 organisations with gender critical beliefs.
This sparked ‘extreme concern’ from some MPs and condemnation from organisations named in the report, including author JK Rowling’s sexual assault service Beira’s Place and Sex Matters.
Lawyers for Beira’s Place and Sex Matters demanded a public apology on the first page of Amnesty International’s website, while Rowling invited other organisations named in the report to apply to her Women’s Fund to help with legal costs should they wish to take action against AIUK.
AIUK has removed the briefing and apologized for publishing it. “We regret that this briefing was uploaded to our website without going through the established internal review procedures” it said. “Its use of language does not reflect the position of Amnesty International UK, which is why it was promptly removed.”
A group of Chrisitan organisations named in the report [ including Anglican Mainstream see here.] has also written to the commission urging it to reaffirm their rights to “engage in public debate on contested moral questions without being mischaracterized as a threat to human rights by other charities”.
They also asked the regulator to reiterate that “ Christian charities as well as faith-based organisations working on the sanctity of life, marriage and the family and biological sex-based rights, make a legitimate and valuable contribution to public life”.
From Governance and Leadership September 2026