Truro & District

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 12 th March. This event will be going ahead, but scaled...

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.

Download the minutes from our online meeting on 9 June 2021 which included a talk by Sophie from Queerkernow, who described the historical persecution in Cornwall of gay men, the prison sentences they got, and what the current...

Download the minutes from the Truro and District meeting on 14 April 2021 which included a talk by Ellie and Glyn about the work of Falmouth and Penryn Welcome, a support group for a refugee family from Syria.

Minutes from the 10 March 2021 meeting which included a talk from Tiina Jauhiainen about the current situation concerning Princess Latifa and her sister Princess Shamsa in Dubai, following the panorama programme.