Truro & District

At our meeting in April we heard a talk by Linda Ramsden of the Israeli Committee against Home Demolitions: Linda outlined the devastating effect of the vast numbers of home demolitions of Palestinian homes. Our next meeting is Wed...

Our meeting in March included a talk on Human Rights Issues in the UK by Laura Trevelyan. Laura focused on two main issues, the Policing Bill, which is now in its final stages, with worrying clauses on banning ‘noisy’ demonstrations...

Minutes from the meeting on 9 February 2022 which included a talk on Russia from Barrie Hay (country coordinator), Barrie spoke about the dangers to people who opposed the regime and Human Rights defenders.

Exeter Amnesty Group have sent us the following information on the South West Regional Conference. We are due to hold the postponed SW Regional Activism Conference on Saturday 12th March. This event will be going ahead, but scaled back...

Our January meeting included a talk on Mexico by Lilly Lavenas country coordinator and a photo action: "Poland: stop refugees freezing"

In our December meeting we caught up on regional Amnesty campaigns and planned future meetings. In January, we will have Tilly Lavenas at our virtual meeting speaking about Mexico.

Our minutes from November. Nigina Istanakai-Zafari, the country coordinator for Afghanistan spoke movingly about the current situation and her own personal and family experience. We also made plans for our write for rights stalls in...

Minutes for meeting on 13 October 2021. Unfortunately the speaker on Afghanistan was unavailable. We hope they will join us in November. Please note our card stalls at High Cross are now on 4 and 11th December 2021.

Download our September 2021 meeting minutes. Chris has taken on the role of country coordinator for Turkey and gave an interesting talk on the history and present situation in Turkey. There was an update on the death penalty campaign...

Download the minutes of our meeting on 14 July 2021 covering our summer bookstall and street collection, campaign updates and action on the Asylum and Nationality Bill.