Bring Amnesty to Your Book Club
Whether you are already part of a book club, or would like to start one, here’s a neat way to generate support for Amnesty while enjoying your passion for reading! Simply introduce a book that touches on human rights issues (fiction or non-fiction), and invite your group to hold a human rights-theme discussion, while making donations to Amnesty International.
To help you get started, we have some suggestions below:
Fiction:
Xamon Song, by Adam E. Stone (Global Dialogue Press, 2006)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)
Beasts of No Burden, by Uzodinma Iweala (HarperCollins, 2005)
Refugee Sandwich: Stories of Exile and Asylum, by Peter Showler (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006)
Death in the Andes, by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Anil’s Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje.
Non-fiction:
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, by Romeo Dallaire
The Human Rights of Women: International Instruments and African Experiences, Edited by Wolfgang Benedek, Esther M. Kisaakye and Gerd Oberleitner (Zed Books, 2006)
Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival by Jen Marlowe (Nation Books (Raincoast);October 2006)
Betrayed: The Assassination of Digna Ochoa by Linda Diebel (Harper Collins Canada 2005)
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope, by Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni. (Random House, 2006).