Take a minute to do our current action!
... join others to press
for human rights ...
Spring Semester
Next meeting: Sunday, May 3rd
4:30 pm, IMU Second floor, at Student Organizations suite
(enter IMU from Madison Street and take the stairs behind the glass partition)
Newcomers welcome! we'll be looking ahead to Fall 2009.
To see notes from our most recent meeting, go here.
Many thanks to Big Poppae E (renowned slam poet Eirik Ott)
& local bands: Diving Horses
Olivia Rose
Muf 'n Tops
Capes of Lead
for making J[amnesty] happen this Thursday March 26!
funds raised will go to Iowa City's Rape Victims Advocacy Program & to
Pretty Bird Woman House, a women's shelter and support group on the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota.
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Welcome to the University of Iowa
Chapter of Amnesty International
Amnesty International, with 4000 chapters in over 60 countries, is the world's largest and most influential human rights organization. Amnesty International is non-partisan and is not affiliated with any government, corporation or political party. A.I. unilaterally seeks to uphold the rights of all individuals, regardless of nationality, creed, age, gender, race, class, political background or sexual orientation. We base our action on the rights guaranteed to all people under the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights law.
Our primary goals, according to Amnesty International's Mandate:
- to seek the release of all prisoners of conscience who have not used nor advocated violence
- to end torture and all forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
- to end "disappearances" and political killings &
- to uphold the rights of prisoners and refugees in all nations worldwide.
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