Write for Rights
December 8 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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.
This year’s cases are from Angola, Argentina, Belarus, Canada, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Turkey, and Viet Nam.
You 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.
Please 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.
Background 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
Information about Write for Rights:
Dec 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.
Amnesty 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.
Please watch the videos below to learn more about two cases for 2024.
“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.
Lawyer 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.