| On
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. |
| Visit
www.amnesty.ca and
find out how you can help. |
| www.joinamnesty.ca |
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Links
Amnesty@haltonhills.com
Amnesty
International Canada
Amnesty
International global headquarters in London England
United
Nations Declaration of Human Rights
The
UN Convention against Torture
Convention
on the Rights of the Child
Other
Amnesty Groups in Canada
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AI
Halton Hills
Group 196 |
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News Stories
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| Read
local news reports about Amnesty
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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