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- NUI Maynooth Amnesty Society-NUIM's Most Improved Society 08/09
- Me, Myself, and I
- It all began with a toast "To Freedom"....
This is the Bebo page of the NUI Maynooth Amnesty Society. We are affiliated with Amnesty International Ireland and we campaign for human rights throughout the world, as laid down in various international treaties, charters and declarations. (e.g. the Universal declaration of Human Rights, ICECSR - International Covenant of Economic Social and Cultural Rights)
We campaign against human rights abuses the world over by lobbying those in power (e.g. politicians) and raising awareness of these abuses among students at NUIM.
Meetings every monday at 6pm in John Hume 6! (upstairs) Come along and get involved!
We have recently been awarded Most Improved Society in NUIM for 2008-2009 and we hope to keep the trend going and get better and better each year!
- How to get involved
- Come join us on Clubs and Socities Day, on October 1st! To get involved at any stage, just leave a comment, email us, come along to a meeting or come talk to us when we're holding a petiton signing. We're are very friendly people really!
- The meetings
- This year our weekly meetings are in John Hume Lecture Hall 6 on Mondays at 6 pm.
- Campaigns
- Occupied Palestinian Terrorties Campaign, Mental Health in Ireland, Urgent action for Troy Davis, Close Guantanamo Bay, Zimbabwe in Crisis, Stop Violence Against Women, End the Death Penalty and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th anniversary.
The other campaigns we will do this year will be the decision of our members, so if there's a campaign you're particularly interested in, feel free to talk to us about it and we'll see what we can do! - Committee 08-09
- President: Lydia *** Vice-President: Christina *** Secretary: Mary *** Treasurer: Donal *** PROs: Stephen and Oisin*** Publications Officer: Megan *** Campaigns Officer: Keith *** International Rep: Leonie *** Alumni Rep: Jason *** First Year Rep: Martina ***
- Happiest when
- Showing that one person can actually make a difference or when accepting our Most Improved Society award
- Plans for the year
- We want to stay busy this year with monthly workshops, speakers events, film nights and our "Not-So-Secret Pliceman's Ball" (a comedy event in December), plus a battle of the bands in second semester and of course the never ending ritual of petition signings!
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Russian Police Violently End Peaceful Gay Pride Parade
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2009/10 Amnesty Maynooth Committee
Following the Amnesty Maynooth Annual General Meeting on Monday, 27th April next year's committee were elected by those in attendance. The results were as follows:
President: Mary Quinn
Vice President: Oisin Feeney
Treasurer- Donal Cox
Secretary- Laura Feeney (no relation to Oisin!)
Public Relations Officers: Christina Dix and Stephen Dunne
Campaigns Officer: Keith Fitzgerald
Publications Officer: Megan Day
The committee positions of International Rep, First Year Rep and Alumni Rep will be decided upon at one of next years meetings.
Congratulations and good luck to next years committee!0 Comments 200 days
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Jestina Mukoko Arrest and General State of Affairs In Zimbabwe
A leading Zimbabwean human rights activist was seized yesterday by suspected secret police, in the most high level abduction operation yet by President Mugabe’s government.
Fifteen armed men in civilian clothing burst into the home of Jestina Mukoko, the executive director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, in the small town of Norton 40km west of Harare at 5am, lawyers said.
“They assaulted her caretaker and took her away,” said Abel Chikomo of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum. Her teenage son watched the incident, and reported to lawyers.
The project has catalogued incidents of violence and human rights abuses for the last eight years, and Ms Mukoko ran a network of hundreds of monitors throughout the country who provided detailed and reliable accounts of the campaigns of brutality carried out by the government under Mr Mugabe. She is the most senior person to have been kidnapped yet.
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“Her work was extremely valuable,” said a human rights activist who asked not to be named. “Thanks to the Peace Project, there is now a detailed record of thousands of incidents of murder, assault, torture, arson and so on, and who the perpetrators are."
“They had just shifted from cataloguing violence, to abuse of food aid by the government, forcing people to support Mugabe or starve to death,” said a human rights lawyer. “It was going to be extremely embarrassing. It’s clear the CIO (Central Intelligence Organisation, Mr Mugabe’s secret police) want to stop it.”
It is the second serious kidnapping in over a month, after a suspected government hit squad seized 14 MDC activists – as well as the two year-old daughter of one of them – from the town of Banket 100 km north of Harare. Witnesses saw them being taken by police officers who have been identified.
The government initially claimed they were involved in training “insurgents” against Mr Mugabe’s government, but now denies they are in official custody.
The 15 have not been seen alive since they were seized 36 days ago, and police have ignored court orders for them to be produced in court.
Police violently broke up separate demonstrations in Harare by the national trade union movement, demanding that the central bank lift limits on the amount people can draw from their bank accounts, and by health workers, pressing for “a safe working environment” in the midst of the country’s cholera epidemic.0 Comments 228 days
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Leonie S16 weeks agoHi all Amnesty,
Just to let you know I will be back in Ireland/Maynooth for the whole month of August and I would love to meet up if anyone is around. I will have my Irish Sim working as soon as I get there and I will be on Facebook and also Bebo as usual.
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Dischordia Draven18 weeks agoWhats all that sunday monday tuesday in jurys thing aboot?
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20 weeks ago
Dischordia Draven
Lol, loving the options for who founded Amnesty, also the annual event is the UK section's event, not an event across all the sections!
Can't believe the year is at an end. The new committee are in place now as everything changes over at the end of June. I hope everyone on the committee enjoy the next year as much as I've enjoyed the previous one. It's been wonderful to work with you all over the year and thank you so much for all your hard work and dedication! Stop by the office to say hi every so often, ok?!
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29 weeks ago
Sharule Bombastic
Hey guys
Just wanted to say I had a great year as a part of Amnesty this year and I can't wait for the next one. I think we've got another really great committee and hopefully next year can be as good as this one, maybe, just maybe, even better!
Good luck in all your exams.
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Caoimhe Doherty31 weeks agoHey guys, just wanted to stop by and say hi.
Had a great craic with you guys yesterday. Thanks for letting me hang with you when i was all on my own. And thanks Lydia for the advice and stuff, much appreciated.
Hope ye all had a great night, it was well deserved.
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31 weeks ago
Dischordia Draven
Back from BICS in one piece. Four hours of sleep though! We didn't win last night at the awards, but we couldn't have been beaten by a nicer society! Well done to Netsoc in ITT! We had a great night and made loads of new friends
I also have to say, even though we didn't win, I am so proud of this society and our members. We have gone from being one of the least known and weakest societies on campus to being one of the strongest and most respected thanks to the hard work of you guys. This society has really improved so much because of all of your help and there are not enough thanks to give you.
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Dischordia Draven
Awe danke Stephen! I thought I was in one though? Leonie's boyfriend took one of me with Ciaran and Roll and Byrne?
Also well done to Mary for making the video! We're going to show it during our presentation tomorrow for BICS.
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Sarah Byrne34 weeks agoyay!!!! Pictures
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Sarah Byrne34 weeks ago
Any photo's from the petition signing
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Mary.
ooh i love the sticker with the hands making the peace sign, and the fucking for virginity one is pretty great too!
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Broni For Ents37 weeks agoCraic!
Although the campaign for Entertainments Officer has ended, I've decided to keep this page as a means of contacting all who added it to inform them of anything I host entertainment-wise. So, with that in mind:
NUI Drama Soc presents
The Raise & Give Gumball Rally!
Teams of people (max. 5 per team) gather in the Arts Block at 12pm this Thursday, with at least one digital camera required per team. After paying the playing fee of €10 per team, each team is given the list of 50 tasks they must complete while racing against the clock. They have 2 hours to complete as many tasks as possible, collect the points ascribed to each task and collect physical/photographic/video evidence of the completion of the task. The competition begins at 12.30m and the team that collects the most points within the 2 hour time limit is declared the winner once returning to the Arts Block by 2.30pm.
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Sarah Byrne40 weeks ago
http://www.bebo.com/PhotoAlbumBig.js...
Its a postcard from amnesty international's page,
Its violence against women, was thinking we could ask for some/print some off for this months campaign -
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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness"
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