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Write For Rights is Amnesty International’s largest annual human rights campaign. It brings millions together to free people around the world from human rights abuses – because when we act together, we change lives.
During Write for Rights, people from over 170 countries take over 5.5 million actions, putting pressure on governments and making change happen.
This year, from the 3rd to the 10th of December, people like you around the world will write letters and take online action for youth human rights defenders who need urgent help.
Through the power of collective action, these letters will convince government officials to free young people unjustly imprisoned, stop torture and end other abuses.
HOW DO I GET INVOLVED?
You can create your own letter writing event, find an event near you or sign online petitions for youth who are under threat.
It's fun, it's easy and it truly helps change lives.
WRITE A LETTER, CHANGE A LIFE – Your words have power!
The cases
This year's cases are all youth human rights defenders. Meet and take action for them below:
Yiliyasijiang Reheman
China
Help us find Yiliyasijiang Reheman
In China, Uyghur people are being rounded up and forced into internment camps. Over two years ago, Yiliyasijiang Reheman went missing while studying in Egypt - his family believe he was taken.
Demand his release now.
We request:
- Call on the Chinese government to:
- • Release Yiliyasijiang Reheman
- • Close the political ‘re-education’ camps’, disclose the whereabouts of the people kept in the camps and ensure while detained that they have access to family members and lawyers of their choice.
Write letters to:
Xi Jinping
Zhongnanhai, Xichangan’jie Xichengqu
Beijing Shi 100017
China
actions@amnesty.org.nz
Marinel Sumook Ubaldo
Philippines
Join Marinel’s calls for climate justice
Marinel Ubaldo’s life was turned upside down when a super typhoon ravaged her home in the Philippines. She’s now campaigning for her community to be safely rehomed and for her government – and governments across the world – to start facing up to the true impacts of climate change.
We request:
- Stand with Marinel, and demand that:
- • The Philippine government provide access to water, electricity, safe and adequate housing, and livelihood opportunities to those severely impacted by typhoon Haiyan in 2013
- • Other governments, especially of wealthier countries that have contributed the most to climate change, support countries who are and will be suffering the most from the devastating impacts of climate change.
Write letters to:
President Rodrigo R. Duterte
Malacañang Complex
J.P. Laurel Street
San Miguel, Manila 1005
Philippines
pcc@malacanang.gov.ph
https://www.facebook.com/pcoogov/
Emil Ostrovko
Belarus
Tell Belarus to free Emil
Emil Ostrovkowas 17 when he was arrested and badly beaten by police officers. Now 19, he is serving an eight-year prison sentence for a minor drug offence, crushing his plans to go to university. He is one of thousands of children and young people serving long prison sentences in Belarus for petty drugs offences. They are forced to do hard labour for long hours and treated more harshly than other offenders.
Tell Belarus to free Emil.
We request:
- Take action now and demand that the government of Belarus:
- • Free Emil
- • Clear his criminal record
- • End the practice of imprisoning children for minor, non-violent drug offences.
Write letters to:
Alexander Koniuk
Internatsionalnaya Str., 22
220030 Minsk
Belarus
info@prokuratura.gov.by
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It's as easy as that!
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