AI Easter Actions: You Can Do More!

AIUSA has posted several actions in commemoration of Easter and Passover. They ask that you send letters or postcards of support to several human rights victims and their families.

With regard to two of the actions on the Easter list, however, you can take further action to help by supporting initiatives in Congress. In addition to sending letters to the family of Claudina Velásquez, please call your member of the House of Representatives and ask him to cosponsor HRes 100 on gender-based violence in Guatemala. This will send a strong message to the Guatemalan government that it must do more to protect women and girls like Claudina.

Please also ask your Congressman to sign a letter being circulated by Representatives Mark Steven Kirk and Mark Uduall about the situation in Eritrea. It expresses concern about the reported death of Yohannes Fessahaye in prison and calls upon the Ethiopian government to release all prisoners of conscience, such as imprisoned protestant pastors featured in the Easter action.