Welcome!

  

University of Leicester Amnesty Society

Welcome!

UOL Amnesty is part of a network of over one hundred student groups standing up for human rights in universities across the UK.

Our Aims:

We aim to campaign, raise awareness, and fundraise for the protection of human rights.
We change our campaigns year on year depending on the issues that are important to our members.

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”  

Nelson Mandela, South African civil rights activist

Background: 

• Amnesty International is the world’s largest grassroots Human Rights Organisation mobilising people from all around the globe. The University of Leicester Amnesty International Student Division forms a part of a network of Amnesty groups all over the United Kingdom which strives to promote and support Amnesty’s mission of protecting individuals wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied.
• The wide array of campaigns we ran in the past include but are not limited to My Body My Rights; Stop Torture, the Refugee Crisis, Abolish the Death Penalty, FGM, etc. From lobbying for the closure of Guantanamo Bay, as well as various different Women’s Rights issues; we have something to offer to everyone!
• Amnesty International is an organisation whose efforts lead to evident results.
• University of Leicester Amnesty International has been in existence for over 10 years and we are proud to represent the aims and missions of the Amnesty network.
•  As a movement of ordinary students, our purpose is to stand up for the rights of individuals where fairness, justice and freedom are denied.

Past Events/ Discussions:

• Has Turkey’s incursion gone too far?
• Write for Rights
• A Panel Discussion: Human Rights Abuses in Palestine
• Amnesty Midlands Conference
• Remembering Grenfell
• When Will We Call it Genocide? Mistreatment of Black People Debate
• Refugees Welcome Campaign
• Immigration is a Good Thing: Challenge Me!
• Overshadowed BAME Women
• Death Penalty Debate 

Check out our socials

Instagram: @amnestyleicester 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/uolamnesty
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amnestyleicester/ 

Email: su-amnesty@le.ac.uk