Amnesty International Write For Rights, 1pm-4pm on Saturday 10 January 2026 at First United Church

• What: Amnesty International Group 9 Hosts Write for Rights
• When: 1:00pm to 4:00pm on Saturday 10 January 2026 iCal
• Where: Hilliard Hall, First United Church
• Location: 16 William Street West, Waterloo, Ontario Map
• Online: https://www.amnestywaterlooregion.org/2025/12/write-for-rights.html
• Contact: [email protected]

Hello Amnesty supporters,

You are invited to join human rights advocates in the Kitchener/Waterloo area as we take part in Amnesty International’s annual Write for Rights letter-writing campaign — the biggest human rights event in the world!

What to do: We will have printed copies of letters for you to sign as well as blank cards and art materials so you can prepare messages of support for the people and families whose rights are under threat.

Download the prepared letters with instructions so that if you have the time, you can sign the letters in advance and bring them with you to our event on January 10. That way, you can focus on preparing the cards of support when you arrive.

More about Write for Rights:

Write for Rights involves hundreds of thousands of people across 200 countries and territories who write millions of letters and and send messages of support on behalf of eight individuals or groups whose rights are at risk.

Write for Rights has helped transform the lives of more than 100 people since 2001, freeing them from torture, harassment, or unjust imprisonment.

This year Amnesty International’s eight cases include: displaced people in Madagascar in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Sámi reindeer herders in Norway whose lifestyle and land rights are under threat, deadly conditions in South African daycares, a lawyer and media commentator in Tunisia jailed for criticizing inhumane prison conditions, a photojournalist sentenced to 20 years hard labour in prison for reporting on the impact of a cyclone in northern Myanmar and the intimidation, imprisonment and murder of environmentalists in the Amazon, Cambodia, and Honduras.

Your words have the power to change lives! Please join us to sign letters and send messages of support to change lives for the better.

Hope to see you on January 10!!!

For more information about this event, email [email protected]

For more information about Canada-based Write for Rights events and on-line petitions go to https://amnesty.ca/write-for-rights/

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Event: Write For Rights – January 10th 2026 @1:00pm @ First United Church in Waterloo

Event: Group 9 Hosts Write for Rights

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Samedi, avec une équipe de bénévoles, dans le cadre de la campagne annuelle d'Amnesty International "Écrire, ça libère" j'ai écrit des lettres pour soutenir les personnes dans le monde dont les droits humains ne sont pas respectés.

Tout mon soutien à leur famille et aux activistes de causes nobles dans le monde entier. 💚

#WriteForRights • #ProtectHumanRights
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On Saturday, with a team of volunteers and as part of Amnesty International’s annual “Write for Rights” campaign, I wrote letters to support people around the world whose human rights are not respected.

Here, I’m writing a letter to the family of Juan López in Honduras, an eco-activist who was murdered a year ago because he opposed mining projects that threatened local rivers and forests, as well as a national park. 💚

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✍️ Join #WriteForRights, because humanity must and will win:

On #HumanRightsDay, @amnesty launches its 2025 campaign proving the power of solidarity. Amid rising authoritarianism and climate collapse, people everywhere are uniting to defend justice and dignity.

Since 2001, #WriteForRights has helped secure freedom and justice in dozens of cases. This year, you can make a difference for:

🌍 Damisoa – fighting for climate-displaced communities in Madagascar
💔 Unecebo – a child lost in South Africa, sparking urgent calls for change
🌊 Juan López – murdered in Honduras for protecting rivers and lands
🦌 Ellinor Guttorm Utsi – fighting to ensure Sámi voices are heard in Norway
📸 Sai Zaw Thaike, jailed for reporting climate devastation in Myanmar
🌱 Guerreras por la Amazonia , young Indigenous women defending the Amazon in Ecuador
🌳 Cambodian defenders – protecting forests and communities
⚖️ Sonia, human rights lawyer facing imprisonment in Tunisia

Your words can save lives. Write. Speak. Stand.
👉 https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/write-for-rights/

Prisoner of conscience signing

Salisbury group held its Write for Rights in the Cathedral

November 2025

The Salisbury group held a successful Write for Rights in the Cathedral Cloisters today and there was an unbroken file of people agreeing to sign. We highlighted two individuals and one group of individuals. The latter were Guerreras por la Amazonia who call themselves the ‘daughter of the earth’ who despite threats and intimidation, continue to demand climate justice for their communities. Climate issues are being seen more and more in human rights terms in recent years. The activities of resource firms who are deforesting large chunks of the Amazon, are having a dramatic effect on the wildlife and on he indigenous peoples. The group took action against Chevron-Texaco to limit the methane flares they emit.

We highlighted Sai Zaw Thaike from Myanmar where the military junta still holds sway although a little less confidently these days. He is a photo journalist who was arrested 3 years ago and sentenced to 20 years of hard labour, tortured and held in solitary confinement for exposing what happened after cyclone Mocha.

Sonia Dahmani (pictured) from Tunisia was our third person. Sonia is a lawyer who has spoken out about racism, migration and prison conditions. She has been harassed and accused of spreading false news. She is under arrest and one of several who have been treated this way by the authoritarian president Kais Saied.

[Since preparing the Write for Rights, it appears that she has been released in the past few days. This is good news]

View of the signing.

Our thanks go to group members Andrew for arranging the event with the Cathedral, Fiona for organising the signing itself, and Tony, Val, Peter and Lesley for assisting on the day.

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Write for Rights

Cathedral signing this Sunday

November 2025

The group will be hosting a signing in the Cathedral cloister on Sunday 30 between 12 noon and 3 pm. We aim to do this every year and it is an opportunity for people visiting the Cathedral – for a service or other reason – to stop for a few moments to sign. There are many, many people who are imprisoned or under house arrest for their beliefs or because they are human rights defenders.

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