The D-E Amnesty International Club (AI) is honoring Human Rights Week, beginning today, Monday, Dec. 5, including supporting the organization's "Write for Rights" Campaign and hosting a special series of special events on the D-E campus. Among their activities, the Club will be leading petition-signing for specific international human rights cases (see below), and selling baked goods and wristbands in the Wharton Lessin Dining Hall.  The AI Club has also established an informational display in the Imperatore Library, including human rights-related books for perusing, plus additional petition signing and personal letter writing opportunities.  The group will then come together and invites all those in our D-E community to join them this Thursday, Dec. 8, at 2:30 p.m. in Hulst House, for a screening of the film "The Visitor".

Samantha Kook, President of the Amnesty International Club, comments, ""I have been involved in Amnesty International since my freshman year, and we are still working on some of the same cases. I feel a personal connection to each person for whom we advocate. Through petitions, personal letters, speakers, and movie screenings, we are able to place political pressure on governments in order to eventually free prisoners of conscience and to raise awareness for these cases. We are really privileged to have the rights that we have in this country, and it gives me a sense of personal satisfaction to hopefully be able to bring those same rights to people around the world. Amnesty has helped to free so many prisoners just by writing letters, and I have seen the benefits of picking up a pen and signing a petition firsthand with many of the cases from my freshman year."

Monday, Dec. 5: