{"id":1959,"date":"2019-12-12T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/write-for-rights-amnesty-international-launches-global-campaign-championing-youth-activists\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T17:28:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T10:28:01","slug":"write-for-rights-amnesty-international-launches-global-campaign-championing-youth-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/news\/2019\/12\/write-for-rights-amnesty-international-launches-global-campaign-championing-youth-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Write for Rights: Amnesty International launches global campaign championing youth activists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amnesty International has today launched Write for Rights<\/a>, the world\u2019s biggest human rights campaign, which this year champions children\u2019s rights and youth activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis year Write for Rights, Amnesty\u2019s flagship human rights campaign, champions youth activists who are taking on the world\u2019s biggest crises,\u201d said Piyanut Kotsan, Director of Amnesty International Thaialnd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom those campaigning for climate and environmental justice, to those challenging inequality, poverty, discrimination and political repression, young people have emerged as a powerful force for change who deserve the world\u2019s support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every December people around the world write millions of letters, emails, tweets, Facebook posts and postcards for those whose human rights are under attack, in what has become the world\u2019s biggest human rights event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amnesty International is hoping to break last year\u2019s Write for Rights record of nearly six million messages of support<\/a> for activists and individuals from 10 countries whose human rights are under attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Youth activism in the spotlight<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From those campaigning for climate and environmental justice, to those challenging inequality, poverty, discrimination and political repression, young people have emerged as a powerful force for change who deserve the world\u2019s support Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of Amnesty International<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Youth activists have played a prominent role in major protest movements and human rights campaigns during 2019, such as the Fridays for Future climate strike movement founded by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, as well as protest movements in many countries around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Write for Rights 2019<\/a> features youth human rights defenders and individuals from<\/s> in Belarus, Canada, China, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines and South Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launching two days ahead of Universal Children\u2019s Day on 20 November, a day to promote children\u2019s rights, several of the featured activists had their rights violated as children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They include Jos\u00e9 Adri\u00e1n,<\/strong> who was 14 when he was brutally beaten by police on his way home from school in Mexico. He is now demanding reparations for his treatment and for the police to stop arbitrary detentions in the state of Yucat\u00e1n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the other cases are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n