US Human Rights Letter Writing Event


Wednesday, August 10 co-sponsored by Amnesty International Women's Human Rights Action Team (701), Amnesty International Local Group 11, and New York City Human Rights Initiative
New Yotk University Law School
Vanderbilt Hall
Greenberg Lounge
40 Washington Square South
(at MacDougal)
New York, NY

From Abu Ghraib to Avenue C: Bringing Human Rights Standards Home to Our Government and Our City

Amnesty International's recent reports on the torture, ill-treatment and deaths of persons held without charges in U.S. custody in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and elsewhere have received extensive media attention. Amnesty has a long history of pressing for U.S. accountability to universal human rights standards in our work against the death penalty, sexual abuse of women in U.S. prisons, racial profiling and other issues. How is Amnesty continuing and expanding its commitment to human rights at home as well as abroad? How can we hold our elected officials and policy-makers at all levels of government in the United States accountable to human rights standards?

You can make a difference! Learn and take action at a public discussion and letter-writing event focusing on U.S. human rights concerns.

Action ideas and information will also be available from New York City activists working on many Amnesty International human rights issues and prisoners of conscience, including:
• The Stop Violence Against Women Campaign
• The Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty
• OUTfront (AI's LGBT human rights program)
• The NYC Women's Human Right's Action Team
• International Trade in Arms and Military Training
• Corporate Action Network
• Conflict Diamonds

For information, contact wheedle@earthlink.net or call 212-979-7213.