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AGM UPDATES
Sunday
UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights and 1987 Nobel Peace Laureate Mary Robinson gave the keynote
address at this year's Welcoming Plenary via videotape. Click on the link below
to watch the video. Alternatively, you can listen to an audio-only version. (Requires
the free Real Player plug-in.)
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The
Challenges of Change
Listen to the remarks by Irene Khan, General Secretary of Amnesty International
at the Closing Plenary. (Requires the free Real Player plug-in.)
Listen
to Irene Khan's Remarks
AGM
Closing Plenary Looks to the Future
Irene Khan (Secretary General, Amnesty International) spoke of four
external ways and four internal ways Amnesty has new challenges with the new integrated
human rights mandate.
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more about the Closing Plenary
Saturday
Saturday
Morning Plenary Focuses on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Hundreds of members showed up for the Opening Plenary on Saturday morning.
Anuradha Mittal, the Co-Director of Food First, Raymond Offenheiser, the
President of Oxfam America and Larry Cox, Senior Program Officer for the
Ford Foundation’s Human Rights and International Cooperation Unit
addressed the audience.
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more about the Plenary
Listen
to the Plenary (Recorded by Seattle Independent Media Center)
Panelists
Tackle Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
During this session, panelists addressed the importance of Amnesty
International USA working directly on the integration of economic, social and
cultural human rights and to clarify what the new Amnesty International mission
statement will look like in practice.
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more about the session
Globalizing
Justice
The international community has established a number of mechanisms to enforce
international law, from the ad hoc tribunals, to "mixed" tribunals,
to the soon to be established International Criminal Court (ICC). This panel explored
the issues that are central to the debate surrounding the globalization of justice.
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more about the session
Fighting
for Women's Rights
Sheila Dauer, director of the women’s human rights program,
and members of the women’s steering committee facilitated an exciting
session about the Women’s Human Rights Program and its plans and
action opportunities to watch out for in the next two years.
Read
more about the session
The
Urgent Action Network: “The emergency room of the Amnesty International hospital.”
Ellen Moore and Scott Harrison from Amnesty International USA's Urgent Action
Network led a dynamic question and answer brown bag lunch session on Saturday.
Read
more about the Urgent Action Network
Crisis
Response at the AGM
A Crisis Response Team has been formed so that Amnesty International can react
to the events in Israel quickly and effectively. Members of the team participated
in events through the AGM.
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more about the Crisis Response Team
Local
Group Caucus Shares Success Stories
The Local Group Caucus, held Saturday night at 5:45 pm, was an open
'chat session' of close to 100 participants--composed of local group members and
coordinators.
Read
more about the Caucus
AGM
Honors and Remembers Guatemala's Human Rights Defenders
More than 600 AGMers joined local human rights group Gualtemaltecos
Unidos to honor human rights defenders in Guatemala at El Centro de la Raza, nestled
in the heart of Seattle's Beacon Hill.
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more about this event
Friday
A
Welcome Message from Linda Hartke
Read the welcome message from Linda Hartke, Chair of the AIUSA Board of
Directors.
Read
the welcome message
A
Welcome Message from Bill Schulz
Read the welcome message from Bill Schulz, AIUSA Executive Director.
Read
the welcome message
Keynote
Address from Mary Robinson
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and 1987 Nobel Peace Laureate Mary Robinson
gave the keynote address at this year's Welcoming Plenary via videotape. Click
on the link below to watch the video. Alternatively, you can listen to an audio-only
version. (Requires the free Real Player plug-in.)
Video
Message from Mary Robinson
Audio
Message from Mary Robinson
Tribute
to Digna Ochoa
This year's AGM is dedicated to Digna Ochoa y Plácido, a human rights lawyer
in Mexico who was shot dead in her office on October 19, 2001. Subscribers to
this Email Update have sent in contributions to help us create a special digital
tribute page. Be sure to check and see how the page grows over the course of the
weekend.
View
the tribute page to Digna Ochoa y Plácido
AGM
2002 Welcoming Plenary: A Closer Look at AIUSA in Action
"With the ballroom filled to capacity, Linda Hartke, chairperson
of AIUSA’s Board of Directors, kicked off this year’s AGM by
calling on all members in the room to stand and recognize their presence
at this year’s meeting." Read more about what happened at the
this year's Welcoming Plenary.
Read
more about the Welcome Plenary
AGM
is First for Many; But Excitement for All
Following the Welcoming Plenary, attendees were invited to meet and mingle
at the Opening Reception.
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more about the reception
Thursday
A
Virtual Welcome
Read the welcome message from Matt Campbell, a resident of Seattle and a member
of Amnesty International USA Local Group #4.
Read
the welcome message
All About
Seattle
We want your "virtual" weekend with us to be informative as well as
enjoyable, so we thought we would start with an short introduction to Seattle,
our beautiful host city.
Read
about Seattle
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