We'd like to send out a big thank you to everybody who came out to our AmnesTEA event last Thursday. It was a great success - over 30 of our members and others in our community wrote a total of 120 letters to the governments of six focus cases from AIUSA's Write for Rights campaign. In the true spirit of this organization, we pled amnesty for each of these six cases, and demanded that their individual human rights be "respected, protected and fulfilled."
Amnesty International's Write for Rights campaign celebrates International Human Rights Day on December 10. As a wonderful example of why we campaign for the rights of these individuals, Amnesty recently released a story about two Iranian doctors Arash and Kamiar Alaei who said that Amnesty International gave them hope when they were imprisoned for their internationally renowned work with HIV/AIDS. In their words, "As a result of your support, we are now free and we are safe." Check out the full story:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/freed-iranian-doctors-say-amnesty-international-campaign-gave-them-hope-2011-11-18
And for more information on this year's Write for Rights campaign, check out: http://www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/cases.php. It's not too late to help us shine a light on human rights abuses around the world!
Monday, November 21, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
AmnesTEA is Next Week
November 17th - 7-9PM - Peet's Coffee and Tea
Use the power of the pen to express your concern for individual's at risk! We hope to see everyone at our AmnesTEA coming up next week - it will be an excellent opportunity to participate in Amnesty's International's Write For Rights campaign - turn in a letter and receive a Buy One Get One Free coupon for Peet's Coffee. We will be writing for these cases:
Majid Tavakkoli: Youth leader imprisoned in Iran for speaking out
Liu Xiaobo: Nobel Peace Prize laureate imprisoned in China
Inés Fernández Ortega & Valentina Rosendo Cantú: Indigenous women raped by soldiers in Mexico
Shin Sook-ja & others at Yokok Political Prison Camp: Families imprisoned for life in North Korea
Reggie Clemons: US Citizen facing execution in Missouri
Residents of Port Harcourt Settlements: Forced evictions of communities in Nigeria
For more information, go to: http://www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/cases.php
Use the power of the pen to express your concern for individual's at risk! We hope to see everyone at our AmnesTEA coming up next week - it will be an excellent opportunity to participate in Amnesty's International's Write For Rights campaign - turn in a letter and receive a Buy One Get One Free coupon for Peet's Coffee. We will be writing for these cases:
Majid Tavakkoli: Youth leader imprisoned in Iran for speaking out
Liu Xiaobo: Nobel Peace Prize laureate imprisoned in China
Inés Fernández Ortega & Valentina Rosendo Cantú: Indigenous women raped by soldiers in Mexico
Shin Sook-ja & others at Yokok Political Prison Camp: Families imprisoned for life in North Korea
Reggie Clemons: US Citizen facing execution in Missouri
Residents of Port Harcourt Settlements: Forced evictions of communities in Nigeria
For more information, go to: http://www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/cases.php
Western Regional Conference 2011
Just this past weekend, Amnesty at UCLA went to the Western Regional Conference near LAX! 21 of our members were able to make it to this amazing conference, featuring human rights activists and experts from around the world.
We were able to participate in workshops and panels dealing with the movement to end the death penalty, uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, accountability for torture, migrant rights, corporate wrongs in the Niger Delta and elsewhere, and so much more. We attended a film screening about the Baha'i Institute for Higher Education with a panel that included none other than Rainn Wilson (who is an active member of the Baha'i Faith), and we heard from extraordinary speakers like Palden Gyatso, a Tibeten monk who was imprisoned and brutally tortured for 33 years after taking part in the 1959 Tibetan uprisings, and Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Josh Fattal, the three American hikers detained in Iran.
We were honored to accept to award for "Best College Group of the West," and we're incredibly excited to bring back to UCLA the knowledge we've gained at the WRC about human rights worldwide. We have some fantastic events planned for this year, so keep posted!
We were able to participate in workshops and panels dealing with the movement to end the death penalty, uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, accountability for torture, migrant rights, corporate wrongs in the Niger Delta and elsewhere, and so much more. We attended a film screening about the Baha'i Institute for Higher Education with a panel that included none other than Rainn Wilson (who is an active member of the Baha'i Faith), and we heard from extraordinary speakers like Palden Gyatso, a Tibeten monk who was imprisoned and brutally tortured for 33 years after taking part in the 1959 Tibetan uprisings, and Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Josh Fattal, the three American hikers detained in Iran.
We were honored to accept to award for "Best College Group of the West," and we're incredibly excited to bring back to UCLA the knowledge we've gained at the WRC about human rights worldwide. We have some fantastic events planned for this year, so keep posted!
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