What is the current international situation regarding torture? What is this new Amnesty International campaign all about? How as a local Amnesty group can we Stop Torture?
These question and others were discussed and answered at workshop held at our recent local group meeting. Continue reading
The Islington & Hackney Group are back for the sixth year running with
their every-popular comedy night to raise awareness of human rights
violations in Burma and raise funds for Amnesty International. This year’s
event is at the Hackney Attic on November 4th. Continue reading
It is now just 30 days to the #AmnestyBookSale on Saturday 22 November which is to be held at Church of the Ascension, Dartmouth Row, Blackheath. To invite your friends please use our Facebook event
Alternatively please email them a copy of our event poster (use link below).
On Tuesday it will be our letter signing drop-in at Greenwich Picturehouse on Greenwich High Road from 8-9pm (walkable from Cutty Sark DLR and Greenwich Station/DLR). Please pop-in to join us and sign one or more letters in support of human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience. Our focus will be on our Stop Torture campaign but there will be other cases too. We welcome everyone to join us and support our work.
This is the flyer for the Stop Torture Embassy Crawl organised by Wandsworth Amnesty. All supporters welcome to join us. Meet at 10.45am on Saturday at the riverside entrance to Embankment.
At our next group meeting tomorrow (Tues 14 Oct) we will be finding out all about Amnesty’s Stop Torture campaign and what we can do to support it. Join us at St Margaret’s, Brandram Road from 7.30pm.
Thanks to all who took part and contributed to making this a successful action. And thanks Heidi Alexander MP for supporting us.
