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Sorry to everyone who expected to see Amnesty International at the socmart. I'm afraid to say that I haven't got the time or the manpower to run Amnesty this year. I'm a third year student and president of another society so I couldn't really manage it this year. If anyone would like to restart the society I would be more than happy to help, but I can't run it myself. My contact e-mail is at the bottom of the page, feel free to contact me for more help. Daniel Humphrey

About Us

Amnesty International was founded 45 years ago by Peter Beneson, and has worked consistently since then in its ceaseless campaign to promote international justice and the most basic of human rights, laid out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948. The main focus of its campaign is the system of letter righting, which involves bombarding the respective governments who have ignored human rights legislation with letters, in the hope of changing their mind. Amnesty also sends letters, postcards, and e-mails directly to the prisoners of conscience, with the hope of getting their release. Amnesty refuses to help prisoners who have been imprisoned due to acts of violence, and the charity does not support prisoners who have broken international law.

Amnesty International works all across the globe, specialising in countries where human rights abuses are particularly severe, such as Burma and Saudi Arabia.

The founder of Amnesty International died two years ago, leaving behind a human rights legacy that will hopefully go on for years to come.

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness" Peter Beneson

Uea Amnesty currently meets every Wednesday at 2 o'clock in room 1.33, Union House, doing letter righting, discussing campaign issues, and socials. Everyone is welcome to take part, the more the merrier. We also hope to be able to invite in some guest speakers, and if possible watch some videos on human rights action around the world.

For more information contact Daniel Humphrey at, daniel.humphrey@uea.ac.uk.