The Right to Family Life
A seminar to celebrate progress in parent advocacy
On 6 June, ATD Fourth World co-hosted a hybrid in-person/virtual seminar with PFAN (the Parents Families and Allies Network) to (…) Read more
Study group: Language and communication
To gather evidence for a United Nations review of the UK’s human rights compliance, ATD Fourth World is running a (…) Read more
Tammy: ‘Parent-to-parent, we can feel understood’
Tammy, on the right, chats with another parent. Tammy is a mother who has known ATD Fourth World since she (…) Read more
Learning about the Human Rights Act
On 23 April 2024, the British Institute for Human Rights offered a free training session to members of ATD Fourth (…) Read more
Study group on stigmatisation, disability and racism
Above: study group participants meet in a hybrid group, with some in person and others taking part via Zoom. To (…) Read more
The story of the magic judge
– Photo by Creative-Touch None of us want to live in a society where poverty shipwrecks loving families, stranding them (…) Read more
New report published: ‘I have walked this journey alone; my soul is tired’
The Human Rights Local team (a project of Essex Human Rights Centre launched in 2020) has published a report calling (…) Read more
Interview with a policy maker: ‘More about preserving families than separating families’
Mike Arsham (above, centre) is the director of advocacy at New York City Administration for Children’s Services. In 2004-05, while (…) Read more
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