JK Rowling’s women-only rape support centre has hit back after being branded an ‘anti-rights organisation’ by Amnesty International, describing the claim as ‘deeply offensive’.
Beira’s Place, the Edinburgh-based service founded by the Harry Potter author in 2022 to support female survivors of male violence, issued its first public response after Amnesty was forced to remove its report, A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK, due to the growing backlash.
The report had included Beira’s Place among more than 100 organisations it claimed were working against the rights of LGBT+ people, prompting criticism from several of those named.
Chief executive Lesley Johnston
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