Write for Rights 2017

On the 70^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, people around the world again took part in Amnesty International’s global write-a-thon. Known as the Write for Rights, people write letters to convince government officials to release people imprisoned for expressing their opinion, and to end other human rights abuses.

This is the sixth year that the Sisters of St. Joseph in London have taken part in Write for Rights. This year, the Sisters wrote a total of 74 letters and 61 postcards to add to the global total. As of December 12, there were 1,304,742 letters, emails, petitions and cards sent by letter writers from all around the world.

To learn more about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, please visit: http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

To support Amnesty International, please visit: https://www.amnesty.ca/

Guest Blogger Mary Kosta, Archivist, Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada is situated on the Traditional Territories of:

the Mississauga Anishinaabeg adjacent to Haudenosaunee Territory and in the territory covered by the Williams Treaty, and Rice Lake Purchase Treaty 20

the Algonquin Anishnaabeg in the area covered by the Rideau Purchase or Treaty 27 and 27 ¼

the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and, the Lenape in the territory covered by Treaty 6 and Treaty 2 and,