Charlie Alford

Activists confront Aviva Norwich HQ for insuring migrant detention and surveillance private contractors

Post author:The Canary
Post published:27 July 2026
Post last modified:28 July 2026

On Friday 24 July 2026, from 8.00-9.00am, activists converged on Aviva’s historic Norwich headquarters. They were demanding the insurer severs ties with companies accused of human rights abuses against migrants and asylum seekers. They brought a 1.5m barbed wire ball surrounding Aviva’s logo, and spoke to hundreds of staff as they made their way to work. Aviva insures the largest number of migrant detention and surveillance contractors operating in the UK. Activists say this record sits in stark contradiction to the company’s publicly stated human rights commitments. Profiting from abuse? Aviva, which grew out of Norwich Union to become a multinational…

Protesters confront NatureScot at biodiversity conference over guga hunt licence

Post author:The Canary
Post published:15 July 2026
Post last modified:16 July 2026

A noisy protest erupted outside the Biodiversity + Business Live conference at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. Campaigners were challenging NatureScot over its role in licensing the controversial guga hunt. From 8am on 15 July, protesters gathered with placards and megaphones outside the conference, which NatureScot is co-hosting. They accused Scotland’s nature agency of undermining its own biodiversity commitments by licensing the annual killing of gannet chicks. Delegates arriving for the conference, including Scottish government ministers and UK business leaders, faced protesters chanting: NatureScot, shame, shame! Gannets killed in your name! Protect the Wild, one of the groups involved,…

Noise demo announced to confront anti-trans campaign group coming to London

Post author:Maddison Wheeldon
Post published:29 June 2026
Post last modified:30 June 2026

A campaign group which wants to block gender affirming care for trans people is coming to London for a conference as it continues towards its aim of: structural violence against, and erasure of the trans community. Presenting themselves as a “respectable organisation”, the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG) is a group of medical clinicians who campaign against gender affirming care and allegedly aim to improve holistic support for trans people instead. However, activists from Trans Kids Deserve Better (TKDB) have raised serious concerns, arguing that the group is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They say it presents itself…