About Us

CMU Amnesty is a diverse group of students from a wide range of majors and backgrounds who share a common interest in human rights. We organize campus events to raise awareness about critical human rights situations throughout theworld. We host coffeehouses where visitors can write letters to free politicalprisoners or help other unfairly treated people. We also host concerts and speakers on human rights.

If you are interested in getting involved with the Carnegie Mellon Chapter, please attend our next meeting or contact us by e-mail.

About Amnesty International

Amnesty International is a worldwide human rights movement which works to prevent the gravest violations of human rights by governments. Amnesty International is independent of any government, political grouping, ideology, economic interest or religious creed. Amnesty International works for the release of any person imprisoned for the peaceful expression of their conscientiously held beliefs, for an end to torture, disappearances and extrajudicial executions, the death penalty and for fair trials for all political prisoners. Amnesty International also works with refugees, and against human rights abuses by some classes of opposition groups. The Amnesty International Mandate contains Amnesty's goals which is to promote the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our distinguished history includes 29 years of 1977 Nobel Peace Prize, detailed and through reports and documentation about human rights abuses around the world, working on behalf of more than 5000 named individuals and poviding rapid action for prisoners and others in immediate danger of serious human rights violations, such as torture or execution.

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2004-2005 Officers

President
Matthew Goldfield
Vice President
Chris Wegrzyn