About Amnesty Norwich
We are ordinary people from around Norwich seeking to protect individuals wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied.
Please note we are not staff members of Amnesty or have offices and thus cannot help with cases directly /employee people
Amnesty Norwich Description
We are ordinary people from Norwich and the surrounding area, standing up for humanity and human rights. Our purpose is to protect individuals wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied.
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Regional Amnesty Conference: Our Rights in Today’s Climate 23 March at 10:00 - 16:30 £7.50 This conference will explore the threats to and the connection between environmental and human rights and will focus on how activists can make a difference.
... Climate change is one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time. Extreme weather-related disasters and rising seas will destroy homes and ruin people’s ability to earn a living. The link between environmental rights and human rights is not new. In the last decades Amnesty has campaigned for justice for many environmental activists and for communities such as those affected by the oil spills in the Niger delta.
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On Saturday 2nd March there will be a presentation and discussion led by Sundus Azza, one of Youth Against Settlements’ newest leaders.
This follows the Women Together for Peace Vigil to Celebrate International Women’s Day, organised by WILPF.
* 12:00 Peace vigil outside St Peter Mancroft Church, Norwich
... * 13:00 Drop in Lunch at Friends Meeting House, Please bring a donation of food to share or pay a small charge
* 14:00 Presentation and discussion in Friends Meeting House by Sundus Azza
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Margaret Fingerhut Piano Concert – Raising Awareness of Refugee needs 17 March at 15:00 - 17:00
Far From The Home I Love: City Of Sanctuary Concert
Acclaimed international pianist Margaret Fingerhut has devised a very special concert that she is performing across the UK to raise awareness of refugee needs as well as to collect funds for City of Sanctuary refugee groups.
Through music and words, Margaret tells the story of some of the many composers who were refugees because of war or persecution, or who migrated for their work. Her programme includes Chopin, Grieg, Hand...el, Haydn, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, and she has specially commissioned a new piece by Arian, the Kurdish Syrian composer who wrote the Refugee National Anthem for the 2016 Olympics.
Tickets: £15
Available through the Theatre Royal Booking Office Phone: 01603 630000
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We hope to see you at our Feburary Open Meeting.
Below is our Agenda for this months meeting:
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... Anne Aves and Liz Magem from the John Aves Educational Project
‘Funding Education For Palestinian Refugees’ The John Aves Educational Project funds young people from the Dheisheh refugee camp to go to University in East Jerusalem. Liz Magem recently returned from the camp.
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Saidzhon Abdurakhmanov Refugee ‘Families Together’ campaign
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Visit to Ormiston Victory Academy Peace Vigil (St Peter Mancroft, 2nd March, 12-1pm) Margaret Fingerhut Piano Concert (Assembly House, 17th March, 3pm) East Anglian Regional Conference ‘Environmental and Human Rights’ (Cambridge, 23rd March) AIUK AGM (Nottingham, 13/14th April) Bishop’s Garden Party (23rd June) Street Collection (28th September)
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Election of officers Treasurer’s Report Chair’s report
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Al-Araibi, 25, has spent more than 70 days in detention after travelling to Bangkok for a honeymoon with his wife on 27 November. He was arrested on arrival after Bahrain obtained an Interpol red notice arrest warrant against him, even though Interpol policy dictates that red notices cannot be issued against refugees on behalf of the countries they fled.