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We suspend activity over the summer. We will announce our first meeting for Fall 2010 on the list-serv. Check About us.
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How we function: We are set up as a Core Group of active members and a loose mailing list of folks interested in human rights. The Core Group meets to plan and keep things happening throughout the year; it is the official link to UI student organizations and the Office of Student Life & to the AI Midwest regional office in Chicago. We have no dues, but ask that you join Amnesty International USA.
If intersted in finding out more about the group, please contact the head of our group, Adrienne Zimmer.
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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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