Amnesty International's Youth and Student Conference

Get together, work together, act together

Amnesty International’s Youth and Student Conference will be held on the 3rd and 4th of July 2009. The purpose of the conference is to get young people together to discuss human rights issues and to try to come up with ideas to further Amnesty's aim to end human rights abuses .

The event will be held at Pearse Library, Pearse Street, Dublin. The cost of the weekend is €25 and includes meals also. You can find out more and register here.

The conference will include workshop sessions on:

• Easy and effective ways to campaign
• Zimbabwe
• Israel/OPT
• Mexico
• Mental health
• Creative human rights
• How to be a youth leader

About Amnesty:

Amnesty International’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.

In pursuit of this vision 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.