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Amnesty declares that poverty in the UK is a violation of human rights
‘Forced adoptions are horrendous.’ This is the title of an interview with ATD activist Patricia Bailey, featured in the Summer (…) Read more
Understanding parent-to-parent advocacy, peer support, and family advocacy
Above: an ATD capacity-building session for activists with lived experience of poverty. Tammy Mayes is fourth from the right, wearing (…) Read more
Study group: peer-to-peer advocacy and absorbing outrage
To gather evidence for a United Nations review of the UK’s human rights compliance, ATD Fourth World is running a (…) Read more
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“Poverty feels like you’re on the outside looking in – you cannot afford to take part.” People in poverty describe (…) Read more
‘You hear a child like me and you don’t hear me at all’
Above, Aurelia Drayak, Tiegan Boyens and Kaydence Drayak address the United Nations via Zoom. Following a written contribution in December, on the (…) Read more
Telling the UN about ‘the hell that is child protection’
Above at left, Patricia Bailey speaks to the United Nations via Zoom from the office of Amnesty International. Following a written contribution (…) Read more
Women’s ♀ day blog post: ‘The privilege of protesting’
By Eva Carrillo Roas I’m excited to share with you a project I have been working on for some months (…) Read more
International Women’s ♀ Day 2023
On 3rd of March, sixteen women gathered at the centre of ATD Fourth World in London to think together about (…) Read more
Remembering Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
– Above, Elizabeth II in 1957, which was also the year ATD Fourth World was founded. Photo from Tortoise Media. (…) Read more
A history of Frimhurst Family House
In 1957, Frimhurst opened as a residential centre for those then considered to be “problem families”. In the economic boom (…) Read more