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May 28, 1961, British lawyer Peter Benenson wrote a letter in reaction to
the imprisonment of two students in Portugal who had raised their glasses
in a toast to freedom. Benenson's action gave birth to a global human rights
movement which eventually came to be known as Amnesty International. |
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AI Halton Hills Group 196
Amnesty International,
Halton Hills Group 196, is based in Georgetown, Ontario northwest
of Toronto. Its participation
in the campaigns of Amnesty
International Canada and its work on individual Prisoner of Conscience
Action Files receives good, local media coverage and strong community
support.
This support helped
lead to the release of five Cuban prisoners of conscience assigned to
the group as separate Action Files.
For its work on behalf
of prisoners unjustly detained around the world, Amnesty International
Halton Hills Group 196 received a Halton Award of Excellence in August,
1999.
Group 196 meets once
a month and has a core membership of ten to twelve people of varying background.
It also has several friends who are ready to help with special events.
To help fulfill Amnesty
International’s mandate to promote public awareness of human rights, Group
196:
- hosts annual Coffee
House fundraisers with lively local entertainment and homemade desserts
- celebrates International
Human Rights Day, December 10 each year with a Write for Rights event
at a local pub
- hosts a table at
the Georgetown Farmers' Market on Saturdays over the summer months
- donates Amnesty
material to the Halton Hills Public Library
- presented Halton
Hills Council with a mounted copy of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
- planted a rose
bush at the Halton Hills Civic Centre as a reminder of the Tiananmen
Square Massacre
One of our youth members
began an Amnesty group at her local high school.
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International Halton Hills Group 196. Type in Amnesty International
as a search term, with "Halton Hills" checked.
Meet members of
Amnesty Halton Hills in the television special Light in the Darkness,
which appears occasionally on Canadian stations. It follows a "prisoner
of conscience" from jail in Cuba to his happy arrival in Canada,
after Amnesty Halton Hills took on his case.
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