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| Global Importune educates community organizations and individuals on international human rights standards and collaborates with them to implement and monitor these standards in local governments, schools and public institutions. We provide extensive workshops on human rights and convene and facilitate strategy sessions on topics such as women in custody and poverty. The most direct way that GI educates the public about human rights and human rights abuses operating a LETTER SIGNING GROUP. Using information from Amnesty International's web site, GI sends its members three pre-written "letters of concern" on behalf of victims of human rights abuse each month. The recipients signs the pre-written letters and return them to GI in a self-addressed stamped envelope that GI provide free of charge. At the end of the month, GI bundles the many letters received from its members and mails them off to the targeted government officials. GI also sends copies of the letters to the U.S. DIPLOMATIC OFFICIALS in the targeted countries with a note " ...as our diplomatic representative in the targeted country we urge you to relay our concerns about human rights violations to members of the respective countries government officials on our behalf...." Occasionally, GI also follows up with calls to the offending government officials and questions them on their countries human rights policy. In an effort to initiate more open dialogue about the root causes of human rights abuse and some of its possible solutions, Global Importune members have met with and participated in discussions with federal, state and local as well as international policy makers and government officials In 2002, members of Global Importune signed and mailed letters of concern on behalf of more than 119 POLITICAL PRISONERS 33 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. Thirty-one political prisoners from twenty-four different countries were released. In 2001 members of Global Importune wrote letters of concern on behalf of more than 150 POLITICAL PRISONERS around the world, subsequently SIXTY ONE POLITICAL PRISONERS WERE RELEASED. Global Importune¡'s letter writing campaigns works because the letters flow from personal dedication and sincerity; something that anyone who cares can volunteer to do. IT"S NOT GOVERNMENTS RECEIVING JUST LETTERS FROM GLOBAL IMPORTUNE MEMBERS; it's the cumulating affect the letters of another persons letters in India, and another persons letters in Mexico and another person¡s letters from Egypt and so on and so on. When you sign onto a letter, they are all sitting at the same table with you. When all those letters hit the same target, it gets results. It shows a global solidarity for one individual and that why it works and that is affective. Global Importune has officially been working on behalf of human rights since October 2000 and boasts a membership of more than 315 participants throughout the United States in Canada and as far away as Australia. Global Importune is a nonprofit tax-exempt human rights organization and operates through the generosity of individual small donations. Participation in Global Importune's letter signing group is FREE AND OPEN TO ALL WHO WISH TO PARTICIPATE. There is never a cost to participate. FOR THOSES INTERESTED IN JOINING CONTACT: globalimportune@primus.ca please put "interested in joining" in the subject heading Global Importune also publishes a free quarterly newsletter for interested parties, which chronicles the success of its letter-signing campaigns.  |
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