Welcome!

Yale Amnesty International is the Yale chapter of a Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with over a million members worldwide. Amnesty International is dedicated to freeing prisoners of conscience, gaining fair trials for political prisoners, ending torture, political killings and disappearances, and abolishing the death penalty throughout the world.

We maintain an active presence on campus, with awareness campaigns, discussion panels, movie screenings, letter-writing sessions, and other activities. We are open to new topics and ideas for action. Every week since Spring 2006, we have sent letters asking for the release of prisoners of conscience; at our table at Commons, we typically get 200 signatures per week on such letters.