Are you passionate about human rights? Would you like to actively promote awareness of human rights abuse around the world to the Tufts community? Then come to Amnesty International’s general interest meeting! Amnesty International is the world's largest human rights organization that seeks to promote and fight for human rights around the world. Through weekly discussions, events, and campaigns, the Tufts Amnesty International chapter aims to raise awareness of human rights abuses among the Tufts community and in the greater Boston area.
Amnesty International will be partnering with Tufts Film Series to present Poverty, Inc., a documentary that critically examines the foreign aid industry. Terrace room, 8 pm
Winner of over 50 international film festival honors, the $100,000 Templeton Freedom Award, and the €5,000 Best Documentary Award from the FIFE Environmental Film Festival in Paris.
"I see multiple colonial governors," says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment. "We are held captive by the donor community."
Take a study break to join Tufts Amnesty International, Tufts Culinary Society and Fletcher's Culinary Diplomacy for our annual Write for Rights event, now featuring hot beverages and foods from the countries highlighted in this year's cases!
Tufts Amnesty International, Carter/Artis Innocence International at Tufts and the Institute for Global Leadership present Voices from Solitary Think Outside the Box featuring John Artis, Innocence International; Five Omar Mualimm-ak, The Incarcerated Nation Corp; Jason Lydon, Black and Pink…and more!
This documentary, directed by Nishtha Jain and produced by Torstein Grude (Piraya Film, Norway), has been shortlisted for the 2015 Grierson Awards, one of the UK’s most prestigious documentary prizes. Established in 1972, the Grierson Awards recognize and celebrate documentaries from Britain and abroad that have made a significant contribution to the genre and that demonstrate quality, integrity, creativity, originality and overall excellence.
Join Amnesty International at Write for Rights! The annual event provides an opportunity to both write and sign letters in support of prisoners of conscience around the world.
Come join Tufts Amnesty and SWAT (Spoken Word Alliance at Tufts) in their first open mic event of the semester on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13. Through this collaborative event, SWAT's dedicated and dynamic group of artists will shine a light on human rights issues through spoken word. The event will be in the terrace room, and refreshments will be provided.
