Central African Republic is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis. Muslims are being ethnically cleansed and millions need urgent help.
Please sign the petition telling President Obama its time to take the lead on establishing a UN peacekeeping force to effectively protect civilians, stop people being forced to flee their homes and to end the bloodshed.
For background information to the conflict, download Amnesty’s report here.
In March 2010, Darius Evangelista was arrested in Manila on suspicion of theft. Fellow detainees saw him brought back to their cell badly injured, before being taken from the police station. They never saw him again.
In August 2010, a video was broadcast on national television of a naked man crying out in pain on the floor, while a police officer beat and abused him. Darius’s wife is convinced that the man in the video is her husband as she recognised his tattoos. It’s the last time she saw her husband alive.
No one has been brought to justice for the torture, enforced disappearance and possible extra-judicial execution of Darius Evangelista.
What you can do to help.
1. Write to the Chief of Philippine National Police calling for justice for the Evangelista family. Address: PDG Nicanor Bartolome, PNP National Headquarters Camp General Crame, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
2.Send a message via Facebook on the Philippines Police Chief’s Facebook page.
3. Send a message of support to the Evangelista family. Address: Margie Evangelista, c/o Center for International Law, Unit 1904 Antel Corporate Center, 121 Valero Street, Salcedo Village, Makati City, Philippines
All are welcome to join us at 8pm on Tuesday 11th February at the Silver St Baptist Church. Part of this meeting will be the group’s 2014 AGM. Click here to view location on a map.
Missed January’s meeting? Read all about it here.
The first meeting of 2014: an occasion to look forward to new plans and initiatives, and maybe, even, in hope.
One for whom we hope, and on whom we are still concentrating as the New Year begins, is Dr. Tun Aung, the Group’s adopted Prisoner of Conscience in Burma. He has been sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment after an unfair trial, having been arrested following riots between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Maungdaw, a town in western Burma, in June 2012. Independent eyewitnesses confirm that Dr Aung actively tried to calm the crowd during the rioting and played no role in the violence. Nevertheless, he was convicted of inciting riots and various other criminal offences.
Speaking in London in July 2013, Burma’s President Thein Sein gave his guarantee that all prisoners of conscience would be freed from his country’s jails by the end of the year; we continue to press him for Dr Tun Aung’s release.
We heard reports on the Death Penalty (possibly some improvement in China, Singapore and Saudi Arabia, but more, and more brutal, in Iran) and signed a plea for a prisoner in Iraq. One of Amnesty’s main campaigns for 2014 is for victims of torture.
The group’s AGM will be held in February; in March Ann Marcus will speak on the Middle East and North Africa. All are welcome at our meetings, 8pm the second Tuesday of the month at the Silver Street Baptist Church.
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All are most welcome to join us for our first group meeting of 2014 on Tuesday 14th January at 8pm, at Silver Street Baptist Church. For more information about our meetings and where we are, please click here.
Being able to make your own decisions about your body, your life and your sexual and reproductive health is a basic human right. But for millions worldwide – many of them young people – this right is denied on a daily basis.
Please take a moment to sign the My Body, My Rights petition and call on World Leaders to stand up for the health and human rights of young people everywhere.
Our last Taunton Amnesty meeting of 2013 will be an informal seasonal one.
Join us at 8pm on Tuesday 10th December at the Silver St Baptist Church, for festive food & drink and the opportunity to send messages of hope to those suffering human rights abuses around the world. This year, Dr Tun Aung (the group’s adopted prisoner of conscience) features in the Write for Rights campaign.
We would like to thank everyone for their continued interest and support throughout the year.
Wishing you all a joyful festive season and peaceful New Year.
About Write for Rights: Every year during November and December, Amnesty International asks people to write a letter and send a message of hope to someone suffering human rights abuses. Presidents, police chiefs and prison governors do take note when they receive hundreds of appeals to release a prisoner, stop the harassment of an activist or change an unjust law. For more information on this year’s cases please click here.
Join Pat on Tuesday 17th December and sign cards to support prisoners of conscience worldwide.
Sessions take place:
10am-12pm
2-4pm
6-7pm
14 Georges Mews, Dunkleys Way, Hillyfields, TA1 2LX
Tel: 01823 332773
£1.50 donation per card and stamp.
Tea,coffee and mince pies too!
About Write for Rights: Every year during November and December, Amnesty International asks people to write a letter and send a message of hope to someone suffering human rights abuses. Presidents, police chiefs and prison governors do take note when they receive hundreds of appeals to release a prisoner, stop the harassment of an activist or change an unjust law. For more information on this year’s cases please click here.
Just a reminder that our monthly group meeting takes place on Tuesday 12th November from 8PM at Silver Street Baptist Church, Taunton. Click here to view location on a map.
We hope to see you there!
Our next monthly group meeting takes place on Tuesday 12th November from 8PM at Silver Street Baptist Church, Taunton. Click here to view location on a map.
All are welcome to come along and discuss human rights, receive campaign updates, and take part in letter writing and other actions to promote human rights.
Amnesty International Taunton Local Group 