Rest in Peace, Annie Le

"To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die."
~Thomas Campbell, "Hallowed Ground"








Our thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of Annie Le, MED '13. All of us from the Yale Journal of Human Rights are thinking of you - we can only imagine the pain you are going through. We continue to pray for your healing and for justice. The Yale community is staying strong for you.

Rest in Peace, Annie Le.

ON OCTOBER 17 ACTIVISTS WILL UNITE (in Connecticut)

by Helen Jack
Saybrook, Yale College 2012

Amnesty International student and local groups from high schools, colleges, and towns around Connecticut will be coming to Yale University on Saturday, October 17 for the Amnesty International Connecticut State Meeting. Meeting participants will spend the day attending workshops to build their organizing skills, hearing guest speakers on Amnesty's priority issues, and discussing how to better work together as a state. Guest speakers include Yale Law School lecturer Hope Metcalf, speaking about detainee abuse by US forces; Pooja Sripad, a student at the Yale School of Public Health, presenting on maternal mortality to introduce Amnesty International's new Demand Dignity Campaign; and Cynthia Gabriel, Amnesty's Field Organizer for the Northeast region. If you are interested in attending the state meeting, please email Yale Amnesty's State Meeting Coordinator Helen Jack at helen.jack@yale.edu

Check out more details of the event (via Facebook) here!