TAKOMA PARK AND SILVER SPRING, MD

AMNESTY iNTERNATIONAL

GROUP#297

Our Mission

Amnesty International's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.

Background

Founded in 1961, Amnesty International is a Nobel Prize winning grassroots activist organization with over one-million members world wide.

Takoma Park's local AI group has been active since 1982. Over the years we worked on the Mid-Atlantic region special focus case (2 prisoners of conscience in Indonesia), advocating for a fair trial for a prisoner in China, the repeal of Maryland's death penalty, and sponsoring the Human Rights Painting Project.