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SUMMARY:Write for Rights
DESCRIPTION:The Social Justice Team will host our 8th annual Amnesty International Write for Rights event in the Fireside Room from 12:30-2:00 p.m.  Snacks will be available. \nThis year’s cases are from Angola\, Argentina\, Belarus\, Canada\, Egypt\, Saudi Arabia\, South Korea\, Turkey\, and Viet Nam. \nYou may also participate in Write for Rights by signing a petition. Petitions will be available in Hewett Hall.  There will be a clipboard for each case and you may select individual cases or print you name\, city\, province and write your signature on all clipboards. \nPlease stop by to sign petitions or write  letters.  You choose the case(s) which interests you the most. If you are not able to write a letter or sign a petition in person\, please use this link to support all 9 cases.  You will be asked to enter your first name\, last name and email address. \nBackground material and sample letters will be available for 9 cases.  Paper\, pens and envelopes will be provided. We will affix postage and mail your letters \nInformation about Write for Rights: \nDec 10th\, marks the 76th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Canadian legal scholar John Peters Humphrey was the principal author of the first draft of the UDHR. \nAmnesty International (AI) has offices around the world and they are constantly hearing about human rights violations.  Each year\, AI selects  cases that they believe are most likely to be influenced by public exposure. Rev. Fulgence Ndagijimana\, well known to the VanU community\, credits an international letter writing campaign with his release from jail after he was arrested and imprisoned in 2015. \nPlease watch the videos below to learn more about two cases for 2024. \n“Our medicines\, our berries\, our food\, the animals\, our water\, our culture\, are all here since time immemorial. We are obligated to protect our ways of life for our babies unborn.” This quote is from Sleydo’\, a member of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. \n \nLawyer Dang Dinh Bach is an environmental activist. He is now serving a five year sentence after being convicted of tax evasion\, a crime he did not commit.
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LOCATION:Fireside Room\, West 49th Avenue 949\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5Z 2T1\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Write for Rights
DESCRIPTION:This Sunday\, Dec 10th\, marks the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Canadian legal scholar John Peters Humphrey was the principal author of the first draft of the UDHR. The Social Justice Team will host our 7th annual Amnesty International Write for Rights event in the Fireside Room from 12:30-1:30 p.m.  Snacks will be available. \nAmnesty International (AI) has offices around the world and they are constantly hearing about human rights violations.  Each year\, AI selects 10 cases that they believe are most likely to be influenced by public exposure. Rev. Fulgence Ndagijimana\, well known to the UCV community\, credits an international letter writing campaign with his release from jail after he was arrested and imprisoned in 2015. \nPlease stop by to write a letter.  You choose the case(s) which interests you the most. \nThis year’s cases from Canada\, the U.S.\, and Australia include: 1) The Wet’suwet’en People who are surveilled\, harassed\, and criminalized for protecting their lands and water from the Coastal Gaslink pipeline\, 2) Rocky Myers who has been on death row in Alabama for 30 years with flawed prosecution\, 3) Maung Sawyeddollah who is taking on Facebook for its role in Myanmar atrocities\, and 4)Indigenous activists who are fighting to save their ancestral lands\, the Torres Strait Islands.  There are additional cases from Brazil\, South Africa\, Eswatini\, Poland\, Kyrgyzstan\, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. \nBackground material and sample letters will be available for 10 cases.  Paper\, pens and envelopes will be provided. We will affix postage and mail your letters.
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