Amnesty International at Yale
Yale Amnesty International is the Yale chapter of a Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with over a million members worldwide. Amnesty International is dedicated to freeing prisoners of conscience, gaining fair trials for political prisoners, ending torture, political killings and disappearances, and abolishing the death penalty throughout the world.
We maintain an active presence on campus, with awareness campaigns, discussion panels, movie screenings, letter-writing sessions, and other activities. We are open to new topics and ideas for action. Every week since Spring 2006, we have sent letters asking for the release of prisoners of conscience; at our table at Commons, we typically get 200 signatures per week on such letters.
Updates
Amnesty, Fall 2009- We're Back!
posted 05/20/2009
Yale Amnesty International is back and as active as ever. Be on the look out around campus for our chalking, table tenting, tabling, and of course the Donut Drives! We are always dilegently preparing for speaker discussions, master teas, and many other activities throughout campus. Look out for us!- or if you would like to contribute to the Amnesty cause we will be meeting every week on Tuesday, 8pm in the Dwight Hall Library. Any questions? Contact us!
Yale Amnesty gets ready for the fall
posted 06/15/2009
It's summertime, and Yale Amnesty members are already planning for the fall semester. Here are just some of the events that we are working on for the first few weeks of the semester:
- The CT Amnesty International Conference (a conference with speakers and workshops for all members of Amnesty Int. chapters in Connecticut)
- A Master's Tea with Tom Parker (Policy Director, Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Human Rights at Amnesty International)
- A lecture on world poverty
We invite incoming Freshman and returning students to come to our meetings and get involved!
Contact co-coordinators stav.atir@yale.edu or nora.jacobson@yale.edu with any questions.
Read and Write About Human Rights This Summer
posted 05/20/2009
It has been a great year for Amnesty this year with all the activities held and the variety of impact that we have made. Keep in touch with Amnesty and Human Rights the right way this summer by contributing and reading the human rights blog of the Yale Journal of Human Rights. Yale Amnesty will be collaborating with this group to bring together those that are interested in Human Rights.
Contributing is easy: All the blogs should be sent to the theyalejournalofhumanrights@gmail.com - bloggers who are from the Amnesty International club should say they are writing as part of Amnesty, so we can tag you as "Amnesty." The blogs can range from traditional blogs (journal style reflections) to filmed interviews, photographs, artwork, links to interesting human rights articles/ clips. The point is to be creative, reflective, educational, and inspiring! We'd hope people submit blogs at least once or twice a week, but obviously, this is up to the your discretion/ capacity to do so. You don't have to be traveling to a faraway location to take part - if you have something to say about human rights, you're qualified.
Welcome back from Spring Break!
posted 03/27/2009
It's been a pleasant two weeks of break! Now that we are back, there are lots of projects that we have planned coming up. Get Pumped!
Busy, Busy, Busy
posted 03/01/2009
As we are all cramming for midterms and looking forward to Spring Break, Yale Amnesty is still planning a load of events on campus! To be most up to date about Amnesty upcoming events why not join our panlist?! Email Helen.jack@yale.edu to be on our harmless panlist. Look at the Upcoming events for just some of the things we are planning!
Amnesty International's Op-eds 3: Letters can set prisoners free
posted 02/27/2009
Helen Jack, our co-coordinator have written an excellent article for the YDN about the effects of our work! If you haven't read this click here now! click here now!
Amnesty International's Op-eds 2: Everhart: Congo Violence Must Stop
posted 02/12/2009
Our next op-ed YDN publication is by Ted Everhart regarding the current injustice and violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His article in the YDN is published here
Amnesty International's Op-eds 1: Death Penalty Always Cruel
posted 02/07/2009
Yale Amnesty International have decided to submit periodic Op-eds to the Yale Daily News. The first one is by Ben Jones, our awesome grad student who specializes on the Death Pentalty. His article in the YDN is published here
Finally! Goodbye Guantanamo!
posted 01/28/2009
After many years, President Obama have finally put a close to torture in Guantanamo. More information from news sources here and here
Violence in Gaza
posted 01/19/2009
Numbers of victims in Gaza is increasing day by day. The UN General Assembly has condemned Israel's killings of Palestinians in Gaza as "genocide". However, Amnesty have yet to declare it a "genocide" . Keep an eye out for campaigns on this issue on campus and the tabling for it in Commons. More information here
Progress on Abolishing the Death Penalty in Connecticut
posted 01/19/2009
Is the opportunity to abolish the death penatly in Connecticut finally here? Although it may not be the best reason to repeal the death penalty, with the financial budget cuts of 2009, it might be just too costly for the state to uphold capital punishment process. More information here
New Website is underconstruction!
posted 01/11/2009
Please excuse our appearance as we are under construction