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Updates on the UW group's upcoming anti-torture and Women of Juarez events, 
including a bra collection for a Mexican Consulate action on the 
uninvestigated murders of over 400 women over the past 10 years.

Colleen


Amnesty International UW would appreciate any posting of the following two 
events to revelent list serves and message boards. Thank you and we hope to 
see you there!

amnesty at u.washington.edu<mailto:amnesty at u.washington.edu>

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1) Torture Awareness Week - October 18-22
  "Addressing Torture: An Academic, A Survivor" - October 20

The UW chapter of Amnesty International will be conducting a Torture 
Awareness
Week, with on-campus "street theater" actions and a speaking event.

The speaking event, entitled "Addressing Torture: An Academic, A Survivor"
features UW Professor Jamie Mayerfeld, an expert in human rights, as well as
Seattle's Sabah Al-Dhaher, an Iraqi-born artist who fled his home country
because of his involvement in the failed uprising against the Baathist 
regime
after the first Gulf war.  Al-Dhaher spent 2 and 1/2 years in a refugee camp 
in
Saudi Arabia, and is a survivor of torture.

"Addressing Torture: An Academic, A Survivor" will be held in Kane 210 from
7:00 to 8:30 on Wednesday, October 20th.  The room will open at 6:30PM, and 
is
free to both UW students and the public.

Contacts:
Tim Richards - timotr at u.washington.edu<mailto:timotr at u.washington.edu>
Phil Neff - thyme at u.washington.edu<mailto:thyme at u.washington.edu>


2) Actions on behalf of the women of Ciudad Juarez.

Amnesty UW is hosting a speaking tour on the issue of disapearances of women 
in
the city of Juarez, Mexico, where over 400 women have been murdered in the 
past
10 years.  Many people monitoring the situation believe that Mexican
authorities have not done enough to safeguard the women of Juarez.  They 
will
come to the UW to speak on October 18th at 7:30 in Kane 220.

Prior to the speaking event, Amnesty will be conducting a bra drive, with 
the
goal of collecting 400 bras to represent the murdered women of Juarez.  The
donated bras will then be delivered to the Mexican consulate in Seattle.

Contact:
Katalina Mayorga - kdm4 at u.washington.edu<mailto:kdm4 at u.washington.edu>


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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for enough good
people to do nothing."

Amnesty International's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys 
all
of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 
and
other international human rights standards.
Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing 
and
ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom 
of
conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the 
context
of its work to promote all human rights.

Nobel Peace Prize 1977   students.washington.edu/amnesty
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