{"id":31188,"date":"2024-12-28T06:26:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T19:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/?p=31188"},"modified":"2025-03-09T23:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:50:26","slug":"amnesty-international-launches-letter-writing-campaign-to-fight-injustice-as-demise-of-global-order-threatens-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldletterwritingday.com\/amnesty-international-launches-letter-writing-campaign-to-fight-injustice-as-demise-of-global-order-threatens-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International launches letter-writing campaign to fight injustice as demise of global order threatens human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amnesty International has launched its annual global letter-writing campaign on 10 December 2024 (Human Rights Day) to fight injustice and support people whose human rights are under threat at a time when global order hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n

As the war in the Middle East and Sudan rages on, and anti-abortion narratives and policies continue, activists from around the world are putting their lives on the line to speak out against oppression and injustice. Many are being threatened, jailed and even killed. This year\u2019s\u00a0Write for Rights campaign<\/a>\u00a0features people whose human rights have been violated. Joel Paredes, from Argentina, was blinded by rubber bullets while peacefully protesting in his hometown of Humahuaca; Manahel al-Otaibi, from Saudi Arabia, was jailed after freely expressing herself on social media; while the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en land defenders have been criminalized for protecting their ancestral land in Canada.<\/p>\n

By writing letters, signing petitions and sharing stories, you can support activists whose lives are in danger.<\/p>\n

Agn\u00e8s Callamard, Amnesty International\u2019s Secretary General<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cPeople have been jailed, shot, tortured, forcibly disappeared and murdered, simply for speaking out to defend human rights, for protesting or voicing their anxieties about the state of the world. This is intolerable. Amid persistent conflicts, shrinking civic space and an intensifying climate emergency, we need to hear their voices more than ever,\u201d said Agn\u00e8s Callamard, Amnesty International\u2019s Secretary General.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy\u00a0writing letters<\/a>, signing petitions and sharing stories, you can support activists whose lives are in danger and demand that governments stop clamping down on rights and freedoms. You can demand justice and hold governments to account. Those responsible for human rights violations thrive in the midst of silence and indifference. They shrink when we come together, speak loud, organise, and unite across the divisions they create. So join us. Take a stand for human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Defending human rights<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This year, Amnesty International\u2019s Write for Rights Campaign<\/a> will be supporting a number of individuals and groups who are defending human rights. Individually and collectively, they stand for the world we want, not the world we live in. They include:<\/p>\n