[WSF-Discuss] Fwd: Global Petition to Amnesty International concerning the Suspension of a Feminist Staff Member

[Jai Sen]

Sunday, 14 February 2010

  (Please feel free to forward)



Friends… I’m sure that you must also have been disturbed by the recent  
news of significant happenings within Amnesty International;  
specifically, the suspension of senior staff member Gita Sahgal.



In my understanding at least, it seems very difficult to believe that  
something as significant as this could have happened without some  
fairly long and deep background (in other words, this is not just  
about one single disagreement); but we don’t know that deeper  
background as yet.



In the meanwhile however, it is extremely important to pay attention  
to the damage that this suspension has done, not just to Amnesty but  
also to the credibility of much wider movement – and movement of  
movements - of which Amnesty is but one part (but in particular,  
precisely because it is such a significant and well-known part).



This mail announces the posting of a ‘Global Petition to Amnesty  
International : Restoring the Integrity of Human Rights’, at http://www.human-rights-for-all.org/spip.php?article15 
.  Please take a look at it and consider signing it.



Thanks to those who have taken the initiative of preparing and posting  
this petition – Amrita, others...



             JS



fwd


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "P. Waterman" <pwaterma at gmail.com>
> Date: February 15 2010 3:44:11 am GMT+05:30
> To: Gina Vargas <ginvargas at gmail.com>,  anissa helie <anissa.helie at gn.apc.org 
> >, interface-spokescouncil at googlegroups.com, debate-list-owner at fahamu.org 
> ,  "jai.sen at cacim.net" <jai.sen at cacim.net>
> Subject: Global Petition to Amnesty International concerning the  
> Suspension of a Feminist Staff Member
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:	[Fwd: Global Petition to Amnesty International: Sign Now]
> Date:	Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:34:52 +0100 (CET)
> From:	<amrita at bart.nl>
> To:	<pwaterma at gmail.com>
> Dear Peter,
> its up.......please forward.......
>
>
> Global Petition to Amnesty International: Restoring the integrity of
> human rights
> Go here directly to sign the petition
> http://www.human-rights-for-all.org/spip.php?article15
>
>

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