The Bishop Johnson Memorial School, before the launch © Amnesty International
Khairunissa Dhala is a campaigner in Amnesty International’s Africa team.
After days, weeks and months of planning, the first day of the caravan and campaign launch on maternal mortality in Sierra Leone has arrived!
The event is being held at Bishop Johnson Memorial School, which is next door to Princess Christian Maternity Hospital (PCMH) and one of Freetown’s biggest slums called Moaf.
We hope to attract people from these areas as they are most affected by the issues surrounding maternal mortality.
We are expecting 5,000 people at the Freetown launch. The Sierra Leone section has spent the last few weeks
advertising the event in newspapers and on the radio and everyone is really excited.
Continue reading ‘Starting up the Sierra Leone caravan…’
Activists at a vigil held in support of Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam. © Amnesty International
By Tim Molyneux, a volunteer working in Amnesty International’s Sri Lanka team.
On Wednesday 1 September, the Sri Lanka Team at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat organised a vigil outside Parliament Square in London. We gathered to protest against the sentencing of Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam, known as Tissa to his friends and family, to 20 years ‘vigorous imprisonment’ by the Government of Sri Lanka.
Tissa has been named a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International. We believe that he has been imprisoned simply for publishing articles critical of the Government of Sri Lanka.
Continue reading ‘Standing in Support of ‘Tissa’’
Unas 400 personas provenientes de diferentes organizaciones, tanto campesinas como indígenas, así como de distintos movimientos sociales y grupos de defensa de derechos humanos atendieron a la audiencia en La Paz, Bolivia. © Amnistía Internacional
El día de ayer Amnistía Internacional asistió a la audiencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, junto a 400 personas provenientes de diferentes organizaciones tanto campesinas, como indígenas, así como de distintos movimientos sociales y grupos de defensa de derechos humanos, para escuchar al Estado paraguayo rendir cuentas de lo que se ha avanzado en la protección de la comunidad indígena Sawhoyamaxa. Amnistía ha estado movilizándose junto con esta comunidad desde 2008.
La comunidad Sawhoyamaxa comenzó su lucha por recuperar sus tierras ancestrales hace 18 años en 1991. La comunidad esta constituida por entre 400 y 500 personas y se ha visto forzada de vivir en un estrecho de terreno al costado de una carretera principal, mientras aguardan la resolución de su reclamación de tierras.
Continue reading ‘Solidaridad a través de las fronteras’
Irene Khan ©Amnesty International
Amnesty International’s Secretary General will be taking part in two interviews today where people will have the opportunity to send in their questions.
Irene Khan will first be taking part in the BBC’s World, Have Your Say programme at 1700GMT. Visit http://worldhaveyoursay…amnesty-international/ to submit questions or comment via the show’s blog or try http://worldhaveyoursay…about/ to get in touch with the programme in another way.
Then, at 1900GMT, she will be taking part in a Spanish interview with Mexican website Reforma.com. To find out how to get in touch, visit http://www.reforma…1000184/, to listen to to http://gruporeforma.reforma….com/.
Amnesty International Report 2009 ©Amnesty International
Five o’clock this morning has come and gone and this year’s Amnesty International report on the state of the world’s human rights is now available to the world. Some of the team stayed up all night to make sure it was all there.
The site contains the usual mix of materials, including the A-Z list of countries detailing the issues in 2008, the Foreword by Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan presenting the organization’s case to the world and a range of video and audio materials and images.
Continue reading ‘Amnesty International report launched’
