What Do We Do?

• Peterborough and Whittlesey Amnesty International campaigns on human rights themes and cases in countries all around the world.
• We write letters, collect signatures, organise card signings and generally raise awareness of human rights issues through literature, events, talks, politicians and the media.
• We fundraise to support our activities and those of AIUK.
• We have awareness-raising stalls during Refugee Week, Peterborough Regional College Freshers Fayre, and International Women's Day.
• We invite speakers from different countries to our meetings.
• We have a Street Collection in October, a Greetings Card Campaign in November and a Seasonal party in December. We held a large community social event in 2004 and hope to do this again soon.
• In addition various individuals arrange sponsorship for activities such as swimming.

We are currently working on two of AIUK's GLOBAL CAMPAIGNS (GCs): STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN and RESPECT REFUGEES RIGHTS.

Our group holds an ACTION FILE on (and has specific responsibility for) two individuals at risk (IARs) who are prisoners-of-conscience in Burma (Myanmar). Their names are U SAW NAING NAING and U SOE HAN. A prisoner of conscience is someone who has been detained for carrying out peaceful political activity by exercising their rights to freedom of opinion, expression and association. Both are serving sentences of 21 years, solely for speaking out against the military regime, and are suffering serious health problems. In Burma there are approximately 1300 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience held for expressing their opposition to the military regime.

We are currently signed up to work on two COUNTRY ACTION PROGRAMMES (CAPs): Turkey and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). We respond to requests for URGENT ACTIONS (UAs) on IARs in Burma, Turkey, DRC, China (including the Tibet and Xinjiang Uighur autonomous regions) and Nepal (including Bhutan), when a prisoner is in imminent danger of torture or execution or in need of urgent medical care. We contribute to generating an instant international protest via letters faxes and e-mails. We could sign up for work on other countries of interest to you. We also contribute to CRISIS RESPONSES, which are urgent country-based actions.

Please get in touch to be put on our mailing list to hear about events, or to help with letter-writing, or to come along to our regular action-oriented meetings.

We work hard but also make sure that we have lots of fun socialising!

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We hope to see or hear from you soon!




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