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Buy a Stamp: Send a letter on Human Rights Day

Thousands of letter writers across Canada and around the world are using pen and paper to speak out for human rights. But those messages need to be delivered before they can have an impact.

Help send Write for Rights letters on their way by buying a stamp - or a book of stamps - that will be used to deliver letters written by volunteers at Amnesty's offices.For the price of a cup of coffee you can make a difference to the life of a prisoner of conscience or human rights defender in danger.

Who's buying a stamp for human rights?

maxrandall: @ellarandall Tell mum you want to send 124 letters. She might help, I have never seen a book of 100 stamps! Unbelievable.

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Amnesty International is a worldwide human rights movement of “ordinary” people achieving “extraordinary” results.

Today, there are 2.2 million Amnesty International members in more than 150 countries.

A British lawyer named Peter Benenson founded Amnesty International in 1961.

In 1973, Luiz Rossi, a Brazilian professor, was the focus of Amnesty’s first Urgent Action appeal.

Mexican indigenous activist Carlos Manzo holds a copy the Amnesty appeal issued in 2003 after he was arrested for organizing peaceful protests.

In Sudan, jailed writer Mahjoub Sharif received over 2,000 cards and messages of support when Amnesty International launched an appeal for his freedom.

Ethiopian journalist Serkalem Fasil was freed after Amnesty members around the world campaigned for her release. She later said: “I have no doubt about the importance of Amnesty International.”

Ngawang Sangdrol is a Tibetan nun and a former prisoner of conscience who was beaten and tortured for her peacefull protests.

“It was your ideas that you wrote to me, that you poured in lines of thousands of letters that I received, that became my friends in those dark days of my life” – Mahendra Kusuma Wardhana , former Indonesian prisoner of conscience.

"We need organizations and people like you who will let the killers know that the entire world sees their actions." – Bertha Oliva de Nativi, Human Rights Defender in Honduras.

Nepalese human rights defender Krishna Pahadi was freed from jail following hundreds of letters and postcards sent by Amnesty supporters around the world.

“I endured only because of the support of people who were concerned about my fate. Only this gave me strength.” – Uzbekistani prisoner of conscience Mutabar Tadzhibaeva.