"Mapping the Anti-Rights Movement From the US to the UK" with Amnesty International UK

In this week's Stage Talk we were joined by Amnesty International UK’s Gender Justice Director Chiara Capraro. In a recent report, Chiara and her team mapped the structure and funding of 65 anti-rights groups operating across the UK. She shares the methodology behind the research, what it reveals about the current trajectory of rights-restriction campaigning, and what it could mean in the years ahead. We also explore the key similarities and differences between movements in the UK and the US.

The talk was hosted by Charlotte Maher on Thursday February 12th 2026. Music featured is courtesy of Artlist.

Recorded live in the Bellingcat Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/bellingcat

Links discussed:

The report: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub/all-resources/the-anti-rights-movement/

Alliance Defending Freedom Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Defending_Freedom

NY Times report on the US anti-abortion influence on Britain: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/world/europe/uk-abortion-farage.html

Sex Matters Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Matters_(advocacy_group)

LGB Alliance Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGB_Alliance

Companies House: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house

Bellingcat tool to dig into US corporate data: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2023/12/18/new-tools-dig-deeper-into-hard-to-aggregate-us-corporate-data/

Hope Not Hate: https://hopenothate.org.uk/

Telegraph article on ministers cutting down on foreign donations: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/12/ministers-crackdown-on-foreign-political-donations/

Our previous Stage Talk on counter-disinformation strategies: https://rss.com/podcasts/bellingcatstagetalk/2507049/

Democracy for Sale: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/

Panorama investigation on Pregnancy Crisis Centres: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64751800

EPF: https://www.epfweb.org/publications

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