First time writing with Amnesty?
Here's how to Write for Rights

It’s easy to be a part of the world’s biggest letter-writing event:

1. Make a decision to participate and make a difference in someone’s life on Human Rights Day. Start by Signing up by saying “Yes, I’m Writing for Rights” at www.writeathon.ca

2. Join other writers, if you like. Plan to write on your own, or if with others:

register and plan your own event

or

look for an event in your city




3. Spread the word by phone, email, facebook, twitter ...

and if you like, you can double your impact by raising funds Should you or someone at your event would like to collect donations, you can, set up your own fundraising page or ask friends in person using our downloadable donation form.


4. Plan your day and choose your letters Read background about our letters of hope to prisoners of conscience and our appeal letters to officials, then prepare for a meaningful day of activity!

5. Write and celebrate on December 10 You're a part of the world's biggest letter-writing event on International Human Rights Day

Write powerful and compassionate letters | sign e-petitions | watch video intros to cases| follow global activity online | email friends | follow our twitter feed | read from "Freedom" | listen to inspiring music | enjoy good food | celebrate the universal human rights that belong to all of us!




6. Mail your letters and share you results by reporting back your letter-writing totals on writeathon.ca and sending your photos to writeathon@amnesty.ca and posting them to our facebook fan page.

"I count the number of times Amnesty members have saved my life and made our work possible"

- Wangari Maathai, imprisoned for peacefully defending the environment and women's rights. Watch this two-minute video on the power of letter-writing

Letter-writing works

“I rarely felt alone during the solitary confinement because you wonderful people were helping me.”
– Grigory Pasko, a journalist who reported on Russia’s dumping of nuclear waste into the ocean. The authorities put him in prison for three-and-a-half years.


“Thanks to Amnesty letters, today we can smile, we can be alive. The government knows we are being watched over by the world.”
-Dina Meza, Honduran human rights activist

"Amnesty's work is of enormous value to those suffering from political oppression. It is perhaps more important than you yourselves have ever realized."
- Wei Jinsheng, a released Chinese Prisoner of Conscience, China

Questions? Contact us ...

Amnesty International Canada
www.amnesty.ca | writeathon@amnesty.ca

1-800-AMNESTY (1-800-266-3789)