{"id":28366,"date":"2015-11-17T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T20:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=28366"},"modified":"2015-11-17T20:16:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T20:16:49","slug":"rights-campaign-resorts-to-christmas-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2015\/11\/17\/rights-campaign-resorts-to-christmas-greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights campaign resorts to Christmas greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes big achievements require small, simple actions \u2013 like writing a Christmas greeting. And this is exactly what Amnesty International\u2019s next event plans to do.<\/p>\n<p>Next week Write for Rights asks people to influence global justice by sending greetings to prisoners of conscience all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>The global campaign\u00a0comes to Cardiff\u2019s Chapter on Monday 23 November, and asks everybody \u2013 children, men and women \u2013 to send a message to 12 people who suffered human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28378\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Grid-Images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28378\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Grid-Images.jpg\" alt=\"Write for Rights, Amnesty, Human Rights\" width=\"480\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Grid-Images.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Grid-Images-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28378\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Grid-Images.jpg\" alt=\"Write for Rights, Amnesty, Human Rights\" width=\"480\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Grid-Images.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/11\/Grid-Images-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> The 12 recipients of Write for Rights 2015 letters. Click on their portraits on the sidebar to read their stories<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty\u2019s Cardiff Chairman Stewart Cane says, \u201cIt can be a Christmas greeting if they are Christian, a simple message if they aren\u2019t, or a letter to their government to help them, stop the harassment or change unjust laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/wales#.VkHHORPtlHw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amnesty International<\/a> provides guidance and information to help participants tailor messages to each case.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how the 2014 campaign fared.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G0Yb336224Q<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new campaign asks public to stand up for human rights by writing letters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":28402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4975,881,4976,4977,4978],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-amnesty-international","tag-event","tag-human-rights","tag-ngo","tag-write-for-rights"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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