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What is MIT Amnesty International?

The MIT Chapter is part of Amnesty International, a non-governmental, non-partisan organization working for the protection of human rights.

Amnesty Objectives

1) The release of all "prisoners of conscience": those people imprisoned because of their beliefs, race, sex, ethnicity, or religion, and who have never used nor advocated violence.
2) Fair and prompt trials for all political prisoners.
3) An end to torture and executions in all cases.
In some countries, the students who prepared this web page would be imprisoned, tortured, or even killed by a death squad. If you think this is wrong, we can show you how to help.

What We Do

The MIT Amnesty International chapter meets once every other week during the spring and fall terms. Our activities include discussion of human rights related events, letter writing, and planning of activities for public education of human rights issues. Our public education activities include letter writing tables in Lobby 10, movie nights where we show movies with human rights themes, and guest lectures by individuals who have experience with human rights.

Running an Event

Group Constitution

Group Officers

2011-2012