Who are we?

With more than 2.2 million supporters, activists and volunteers in over 150 countries, and complete independence from government, corporate or national interests, we work to protect human rights worldwide. Our vision is of a world in which every person - regardless of race, religion, gender, or ethnicity - enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. Our chapter @ USD works with the campus and community to further this goal through education and activism. 



History

Spring 2010

We had two speakers this semester:

Elise Garvey of the Human Trafficking Project

Travis Schulze from the death penalty abolition movement for the state of South Dakota
 

JAMnesty

Proceeds went to the Children's Inn in Sioux Falls
 

We held more movie nights this semester. A couple of the films we showed were:

"Taken" and "Maria Full of Grace",
 

​Fall 2009
JAMnesty
Held JAMnesty at Raziel's downtown Vermillion, SD. We raised over $300 for Amnesty International's campaign in Sri Lanka

Throughout the semester we held two movie nights -- "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Phildelphia"

Write-A-thon
Held write-a-thon for Rita Mahato of Nepal, Bárbara Italia Mendez of Mexico, Mohammed Mohammed Hassain Odaini of Yemen, as well as for Amnesty's campaign in Sri Lanka.

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Spring of 2009
Peaceful protest to end violence against the women of Darfur

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Fall of 2008
Keloland Coverage on Moses

Write-A-Thon
Held a write-a-thon for our special focus case and other prisoners of conscience.

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Spring of 2007
JAMnesty
Raised over $400 for the "Rebuild Sudan through Education." The money went to help build a school in Southern Sudan, create water well(s), and for the school to purchase a corn grinder. Many of the girls are not able to attend school, because they have to grind corn by hand. With the corn grinder they are able to drop off their bag of corn at school and once their done learning their corn will have been grinded for them.

Hosted the speaker Moses (a 'Lost Boy')
He promoted the program "Rebuild Sudan through Education," because we were raising money to build a school for his home villiage.
Hosted the film "God Grew Tired of Us."
Help bring awareness of 'Lost Boys.'

Our members were fortunate to meet/hear John Bul Dau speak at Augustana.

Fall of 2007

Instant Karma campaign

Held a candle light vigil for all those that died in Darfur.

Hosted a speaker from Darfur .

Held a poster poster display of the events in Darfur.

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