Training/Workshop
Lobby Training
Olive Branch Room 2360 Rice Blvd., Houston, TX, United StatesHouston's Amnesty International Local Group 23 will offer a 90-minute workshop focused on learning skills for how to lobby your legislators to protect the rights of asylum seekers. Join us for this skill-build and put another tool in your activist toolbox as we work to promote and protect human rights in our city! March 21st …
18th World Day Against the Death Penalty: Access to counsel – A matter of life or death
Virtual EventJoin Amnesty International for our annual celebration of World Day Against the Death Penalty. Every year, Amnesty International, and others around the globe, mark this day to raise awareness about the ultimate violation of human rights -- the death penalty. We'll hear from experts in the field about the ways in which inadequate defense counsel …
Immigration and Human Rights in Honor of Human Rights Day
Virtual EventPlease join Amnesty International Group 30 and the Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco Humanist and Nontheist Group for a thoughtful panel discussion about immigration and human rights in a pandemic and moving forward into a new presidency. Featuring Denise Bell, Researcher for Refugee and Migrant Rights at Amnesty International and Professor Bill Ong Hing, …
2021 Write for Rights Virtual Event
Please join our annual W4R event, hosted by AIUSA Group 11 NYC. All are welcome! This year it will be virtual via Zoom. Enjoy Music & Poetry, Walk Through the Cases, get help if you need anything, and Sign Letters Together. Sign up on Eventbrite at "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aiusa-write-for-rights-group-11-nyc-tickets-134806827851" for free to receive details and the Zoom …
A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays
Virtual EventJoin us for an evening with Marc Bookman, author of A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays. Drawing from his 25+ years as a capital defense attorney and his gift for story-telling, Marc will make you laugh as well as and bring tears to your eyes as he recounts the almost unbelievable …
Politics and the Death Penalty
Virtual EventSaturday August 28, 2021 11:30 am – 1:30 pm CDT Register here! This webinar, “Politics and the Death Penalty,” will have 7 elected officials, representing both major parties, speaking about their reasons for opposing the death penalty as a public policy issue. They will speak about their individual journeys in reaching their decisions, and how …
A Story of Justice and Power: For the People, an evening with Larry Krasner
Virtual EventA Story of Justice and Power: For the People Larry Krasner is currently serving as the twenty-sixth district attorney of Philadelphia. Krasner worked as a criminal defense lawyer in Philadelphia for thirty years before being elected district attorney in 2017. Philadelphia’s progressive district attorney offers an inspiring vision of how people can take back power …
Journalism Under Threat
AIUSA’s Country & Thematic Specialist Program invites you to the online event, Journalism Under Threat, May 2nd at 8pm ET/7pm CT/5pm PT to mark World Press Freedom Day. Around the world principles of free speech are being threatened and journalists are under attack just for doing their job. Join us as we hear from five …