IN SUPPORT OF IRANIAN LABOR UNIONISTS
IRANIAN LAWYER SENTENCED TO
38 YEARS IN PRISON AND 148 LASHES
IN SUPPORT OF IRANIAN LABOR UNIONISTS
622 3RD AVE, NEW YORK
May 1
Next Group 11 Monthly Meeting – Tue 4/23
- Date: Tuesday, April 23, 6:30pm
- Place: 593 Columbus Avenue at 88th Street, Art Room
On this month’s agenda:
- Introductions and announcements
- Report on Get on the Bus on April 5
- May 1 Demonstration at Iran Mission
- Reports on selected cases
- Make signs for May 1 demonstration
- Sign letters, petitions and selected Nowruz cards
- Refreshments and conversation
Group 11 Meetings
Group 11 meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm at the Goddard-Riverside Community Center, 647 Columbus between 91st and 92nd Streets. Enter on Columbus Avenue and ask for Room 9. At these meetings we review the cases and campaigns we are working on, sign prepared letters and petitions on them and discuss current human rights situations. We often have a guest speaker on a pressing human rights issue.
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Write for Rights 2018
letters were collected during the Write for Rights campaign in 2018
Current Work: Cases
Our group is working on cases in the countries listed in the slider below. To learn more about the cases, please click a country that interests you.
Central African Republic
Iran
Israel & OPT
Yemen
China
Gambia
Current Work: Campaigns
We are actively working on a range of Amnesty programs such as Security with Human Rights which aims to ensure national security without sacrificing human rights (our group advocates against the unlawful and abusive detention at Guantanamo and in favor of securing accountability for torture), International Criminal Court (we seek to promote greater involvement by the Court and United Nations in deterring human rights violations throughout the world), Death Penalty abolition campaign, and Women’s Rights campaign.
The 2017 Individuals at Risk Case Commitment Award
In 2017 Group 11 received the Individuals at Risk Case Commitment Award for demonstrating exceptional dedication and leadership by helping to free Teodora del Carmen Vazquez, a Salvadoran women who spent 10 years in prison after giving birth to a stillborn baby. Read about Teodora and our creative campaigning on her case here.
Past Activism
One of the oldest Amnesty groups in the U.S., Group 11 has a rich history of campaigning for those who are imprisoned or face abuse and intimidation for rising against injustice. The group campaigned on behalf of prisoners of conscience, launched a series of special projects (click here to learn about the book of correspondence between Group 11’s activists and a Ukrainian dissident), and participated in numerous human rights campaigns. To learn more about Group 11’s past activism, please see this page, and to read about Group 11’s 45 year history please click here.
Read our Blog
NYC Area Activist Meeting
On February 16, AIUSA held an activist meeting for local and student groups in the NYC area. Group 11 members were excited to meet fellow activists and learn more about their projects. During the event, the participants compiled an action calendar that included all the upcoming Amnesty events in NYC area. The event also included…
43rd Benefit Concert
Our benefit concert 2018 was a blast! Kudos to Marcia Eckert for organizing such a wonderful event. We were fortunate to have Blue Door playing the whimsical Debussy Sonata for Cello and Piano as well as a movement from Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. Messiaen wrote this piece while a prisoner of…
2019 Annual Dinner
To celebrate another year of human rights advocacy, Group 11 held its annual get together dinner at Pearl’s Chinese Restaurant on January 7, 2019. Following the group’s longstanding tradition, its co-coordinator Sue asked the attendants to guess the number or letters that the group had collected during the Amnesty’s Write for Rights letter writing marathon…
2018 Write 4 Rights Night
On November 27, Group 11 observed International Human Rights Day by holding its annual Write 4 Rights event. This year the W4R campaign brought to the spotlight women human rights activists who risked their lives and freedom to rise against injustice and protect their communities. Marielle Franco The selection of cases for W4R was not…