Past Campaigns
CUAI is very grateful to all of their supporters throughout the university and within the general public. For the last 2 years running CUAI has won ‘Best Fundraisers’ in the annual Amnesty UK Student Raise Off competition.
Lets try and make it 3 years in a row!
Easter 2009
FACE Fashion Show 2009
As part of our campaign on corporate accountability and as the leading fundraiser for 2009, CUAI presented ethical fashion at the Cambridge Union. Lily Cole and Sam Roddick both gave speeches on the importance of human rights in fashion and the importance for both consumers and businessmen and women to prioritise ethical businesses and business practices. We presented 5 collections of the best in ethical fashion including Katherine Hamnett, Noir, From Somewhere, EJF, Beautiful Soul, THTC, Amana and Ciel. We also saw some incredible performances from the CU Contemporary Dance Soc and the Sin Cru.
The evening raised over £2,000 and was featured in the local media as well as the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and various online media.
Human Rights for China
During the run up to the Beijing Olympics, CUAI organised an exhibition and memorial for those who died in the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square. We remember and support the Tiananmen Mothers.
The Tiananmen Mothers is a group of Chinese democracy activists promoting a change in the government’s position over the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Around every anniversary of the 1989 crackdown, many activists and human rights defenders, including the Tiananmen Mothers have been placed under tight police surveillance and forms of house arrest.
Take action for the Tiananmen Mothers online.
Lent 2009
Control Arms
More information on this previous campaign will appear soon.
Corporate Accountability
More information on this previous campaign will appear soon.
Michaelmas 2008
Stop Violence Against Women
More information on this previous campaign will appear soon.
Writing Wrongs: Human Rights and Literature Festival
More information on this previous campaign will appear soon.
Easter 2008
Human Rights for China
During the run up to the Beijing Olympics, CUAI organised an exhibition and memorial for those who died in the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square. We remember and support the Tiananmen Mothers.
The Tiananmen Mothers is a group of Chinese democracy activists promoting a change in the government’s position over the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Around every anniversary of the 1989 crackdown, many activists and human rights defenders, including the Tiananmen Mothers have been placed under tight police surveillance and forms of house arrest.
Take action for the Tiananmen Mothers online.
Lent 2008
Terrorism, Security and Human Rights
Highlights
Orange Wednesday
Hundreds of students and professors adorned orange jumpsuits for a day to campaign against imprisonment without trial and rendition. The event raised £2,000 for Amnesty and created a fab poster – a group of students arranged into a (birds-eye-view) Amnesty candle on King’s lawn.
For more information on Amnesty’s terrorism, security and human rights campaign go to www.unsubscribe-me.org.uk
