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Membership
WHEREVER YOU ARE, YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
JOIN AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL INDIA
While Amnesty has a 2.2 million members globally, and over 5000 in India, Amnesty International India and the causes it stands for will benefit by your support, no matter which field you are from. Your membership will enrich our work, commitment and help us to pressurize and lobby more effectively. If you share similar concerns and outlook about human rights, you can help us by becoming a member or/and paying a donation.
As an individual member or as a part of a local group or a specialist network, your individual voice will join with countless others to build pressure for change. When you join Amnesty International India you become a part of Amnesty International’s worldwide movement. You also link to the India specific campaigns for the protection of human rights.
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Why Become a Member? |
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The increasing spread of human rights abuse demands more voices, more hands to make a better world
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As a member you will be able to voice your concern more powerfully and in informed manner through both collective and individual action.
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Your membership fee, donation and active participation in our campaigns and networks will help AII to speak
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What Members Can do? |
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You can help the people for whom AII campaigns by writing appeals:
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For their cases to be impartially investigated |
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For them to be given prompt reparations and rehabilitation from the state |
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For those responsible to be prosecuted and given a fair trial that excludes death penalty |
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You can be part of specific campaigns by:
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Being alert to human rights violations against women, minorities, adivasis, dalits and other vulnerable people in your local area and together with Amnesty International India campaign for their rights |
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joining the campaign for a fair criminal justice system in the country. For this you can register to take action against torture at www.stoptorture.org and campaign on line, and on the ground with AII. |
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joining the campaigns against security legislations and other laws responsible for violence, displacement and loss of life. |
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joining the AII campaign for the abolition of death penalty in the country. |
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supporting AII”s Stop Violence Against Women Campaign that opposes any form of discrimination and torture against women. |
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pressing upon the GOI to ratify all UN Conventions such as against torture and violence against women, for the rights of internally displaced people (IDPs), the trial of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court. |
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joining with AII to fight against poverty, for dignity and peoples’ ownership over natural resources, livelihood and essential services. |
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demanding along with AII that the GOI conducts impartial enquiries and investigations into abuses and implements their findings, such as at Kashipur, Gujarat, Gurgaon, Kalinga Nagar, Singur, Nandigram and the fair trials of those prosecuted. |
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supporting international campaigns for the defence of lives outside India. |
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you can aid and be aided by the human rights education programmes no matter which professional field you belong to. |
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Your fees and donation will help towards: |
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researching into the identities and conditions of individual prisoners, torture victims, other victims of abuse
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sending observers to trails. |
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supporting the families of victims of human rights abuses and preparing, publishing and publicising reports against human rights abuses in the country and outside
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making Amnesty International self-reliant and impartial |
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sustaining the human rights campaigns of Amnesty International and Amnesty International India commitment. |
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 Click here to download the membership form.
Please Contact our membership desk at:
Amnesty International India
C 1/22, First Floor
Safdarjung Development Area
HauzKhas, New Delhi 110016
Tel: 011.41642501, 26854763 Ext: 34
Fax: 011.26510202
Email: membership@amnesty.org.in
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