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Amnesty International MTSU Student Group

About Me

Amnesty International's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.In pursuit of this vision, AI's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.Amnesty International is the world's largest human rights organization with more than 1.5 million members in eighty-five countries and more than 1,500 college and high school groups in the U.S. alone.AI is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion. It does not support or oppose any government or political system, nor does it support or oppose the views of the victims whose rights it seeks to protect. It is concerned solely with the impartial protection of human rights.Contact Info Email: [email protected] Website: www.aiusa.org

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Other members of Amnesty International world-wide, and any one willing to help promote human rights.

My Blog

Dalai Lama Awarded Congressional Gold Medal, Recently

Reposted with permission from:Reality and Other Fantasies Blog by Ginger Killian EadesHis Holiness the Dalai Lama addresses the audience during the Congressional Gold Medal Awards Ceremony in the Unit...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:18:00 GMT

Sexual Violence Against Indigenous Women

"Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA" A Summary of Amnesty International's Findings:Sexual violence against Indigenous women in the USA is widesp...
Posted by on Sun, 13 May 2007 02:47:00 GMT

New Jersey Bill to Abolish the Death penalty

history in the making...new jersey bill to abolish death penalty clears senate judiciary committee...yesterday was amazing...just a day after tennessee executed philip workman (see posts on this criti...
Posted by on Sat, 12 May 2007 17:34:00 GMT

BEYOND PRISONS: Newly Published Book Co-authored by Harmon Wray

FOR MORE BOOK INFO: REPLY TO BLOG POSTHarmon L. Wray directs the Vanderbilt Program in Faith and Criminal Justicein conjunction with Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, TN, and was a2005-06 Soros...
Posted by on Thu, 03 May 2007 18:16:00 GMT