| 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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Stop Violence
against Women
The Raging Grannies at our booth in the Georgetown Marketplace
First one person speaks
out. Then two. Then three ... Working together we will stop violence against
women.
Click. Act. Learn.
Change.
Do you hear it?
It's the world's most
pervasive human rights violation. It's the violation most often ignored.
Every minute of every
day, women and girls around the world are assaulted, threatened, raped,
mutilated, killed.
Read more ...
Visit www.amnesty.ca
and find out how you can help.
You can also visit www.10000 Voices.ca
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Halton Hills
Group 196 |
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YOUR ACTIONS ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE - Click here for Good
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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