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1 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report CONTENTS

5 7 15 20 MESSAGE FROM THE The Middle East and Death Penalty Communications EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR North Africa: Abolition Campaign A Year of Unprecedented Rebellion 21 6 17 MEMBERSHIP MESSAGE FROM THE Security With Board chair 11 Faces of Freedom Campaign 22 Financial Data 18 Science For Human Rights 24 Campaign Special Thanks 19 30 Demand Dignity 2011 SENIOR STAFF, BOARD OF Campaign DIRECTORS, AND AIUSA OFFICES

2 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report The Syrian government under President Bashar al-Assad responded to the initial eruption of peaceful protests in March 2011 with brutal violence. In response to being ordered to shoot unarmed Schoolgirls demonstrate civilians, large numbers of men deserted the army and formed the Free Syrian Army. The protest against the Syrian regime in movement has now turned into an armed uprising, with clashes between the regular army and the Free Zabadani, the only town in Syrian Army taking place in early 2012. Syria officially held by the throughout the later months of 2011, the Syrian government tortured those caught up in the massive rebels. The girls shout “We support the Free Syrian wave of arrests on a scale not seen in the country for decades, according to ’s Army”, “Assad, go to hell” report, Deadly Detention: Deaths in custody amid popular protest in Syria—yet Syrians have continued and “The people want the to risk their lives to demand reforms. end of the regime.”

3 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report m e ss a g o f t h ank s “I think my strength comes from people like you. It’s the support that we have received from friends and sympathizers all over the world that has helped to keep our courage up over the years. People who do a little for Amnesty International, they do much more than they think they are doing. They think they are doing very little, but it all adds up to a lot. And that is what has kept us going.”

Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained by ’s military junta

© A dam De a n/ P © for more than 15 years for her leadership of the National League for Democracy. Amnesty Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the International began advocating for her release National League for Democracy, the country’s main opposition party and when she was first arrested in 1989 and democracy movement, during an April A NO S honored her with its 2009 Ambassador of 2012 campaign stop in Kalaw. Conscience award.

4 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Greetings and Gratitude organizations; multilateral institutions; and AI’s years of skillful campaigning brought volunteer leaders, funders, and supporters. the case of death-row prisoner Troy Davis to Although I became the executive director the more I learn about Amnesty the attention of millions of people across the of Amnesty International USA in January International, the more I am convinced that country and catalyzed a national moment 2012, after the end of the fiscal period we are a powerful force for change. In the of reckoning regarding the continued use of covered in this report, I would like to following pages, you will read about the the death penalty. share some reflections on the tremendous human rights victories that demonstrate the this is only a partial list of AI’s key strengths and opportunities we have as an influence of our signature combination of accomplishments—and a testament to organization. independent reporting, high-level advocacy what we can accomplish when we direct During my first quarter here, I’ve met and grassroots tactics. Throughout the our considerable intellectual, legislative with staff, donors, activists, supporters and early months of 2011, as massive popular and campaigning resources toward clearly the leaders of 80 AI sections. I attended revolts against tyranny swept across the defined human rights goals. I am happy to our Annual General Meeting in Denver and Middle East and North Africa, our research be able to share these successes with you encountered energetic, creative activists teams fanned out across the region to and thank you, our supporters, for making document human rights violations in real it all possible. I look forward to working Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of all ages who are brimming with ideas on how to raise the profile of human rights time, building upon decades of research together to make 2012 an even more across the country. My conversations with and longstanding partnerships with local successful year. AI’s various constituencies sharpened human rights groups. At the March 2011 my understanding of AI’s distinctive annual general meeting in , advantages as we navigate the challenges AI activists rejoiced as Burmese opposition Suzanne Nossel facing the human rights movement. They leader Aung San Suu Kyi called from Executive Director, also positioned me to see our role from to thank them for campaigning on her behalf Amnesty International USA different vantage points: our advocacy since 1989—years of dedicated casework targets in Washington, statehouses around that contributed to her release after more the country and governments around the than 15 years in detention and recent world; our partner non-governmental appointment in the government. At home,

5 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report LETTER FROM THE Board Chair

And a Farewell imagination and efficiency in order to within Amnesty International—group maximize our resources during a sustained member, activist, financial supporter—I As my own term as chair of the board economic downturn. For me, doing more wish all of you the very best. of Amnesty International USA comes translates into more people safe from to an end, I, too, would like to share a torture and freed from unjust imprisonment; few thoughts. As you have seen in these more people able to express their peaceful Carole Nagengast pages, we achieved important human opinions without fear of reprisals; more Chair of the Board of Directors, rights victories last year. Under the able people free from the crippling burden of Amnesty International USA leadership of our new executive director, poverty and the hardship that accompanies Suzanne Nossel, we are implementing a it, such as forced evictions or the necessity bold new business and strategic plan that of seeking livelihoods in other countries, far will enable us to move forward as an even from safety and family. Women everywhere more powerful, stronger and effective voice need to be free to reach their full potential, for human rights. and we need once and for all to end the death penalty in the and Carole Nagengast, Chair of the Board of Directors I’ve never known Amnesty International activists to shrink from a challenge. Today, everywhere in the world. the challenge is this: to work with ingenuity, So as I move on to take different roles

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A Year of Unprecedented R E U TE RS/Go ra n T o mas ev ic ©

Security forces fire shotguns at protestors on a side street near Rebellion Tahrir Square in Cairo, November 2011.

Amnesty International USA’s Crisis Prevention fact-finding missions to local human rights defend- on February 12, Amnesty also spoke out in support and Response work mobilizes members and Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Saudi ers, and collected every International organized soli- of people’s organizations, Arabia and other hot spots manner of evidence possible darity rallies in various cities including women’s groups, supporters to take action on urgent human rights in the region to conduct in volatile settings. around the world in support that were being excluded crises around the world. independent documentation their findings have been of Egyptian protesters. On from the reform process, and of human rights violations. published in numerous March 15 Amnesty Inter- called attention to security AI researchers bore witness reports, and they formed the national Secretary General forces that continued to use The global human rights of the Tunisian revolution in to both heady protests and basis of scores of urgent ac- Salil Shetty met with U.N. violence against peaceful movement has been ir- December 2010, Amnesty In- violent crackdowns. They tions on behalf of individuals Secretary-General Ban Ki- protesters in both these revocably changed by the ternational triggered its “crisis interviewed witnesses and at grave risk of harm, media moon and urged the United countries and elsewhere in extraordinary courage of the response mode,” sending survivors of violence at the briefings covering key devel- Nations to step up its efforts the region. millions of people across the regional experts to the region hands of armies, police, opments, and comprehensive to stop human rights viola- Middle East and North Africa to document rapidly unfolding security forces and rebels. country reports made avail- tions in Libya, and to push who have put their lives on events. They inspected hospital and able to the organization’s for human rights to be at the the line to fight for basic As the regional uprising prison records, spoke to worldwide network of more center of political reform in freedoms. At the beginning unfolded, AI dispatched state officials, lawyers and than 3 million members. Egypt and Tunisia. Shetty

7 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report c r isis pre v ent i on an d re s pon e ai’s ground mission activities

Bahrain May and August-September. AI Reports: Bahrain: Fair trial researchers also visited Lampe- and freedom of expression must dusa island, Italy, to interview be guaranteed; Crackdown In Libyans who had fled by sea. Bahrain: Human Rights At The Crossroads; Middle East and Saudi Arabia North Africa: Year of rebellion: Reports: Saudi Arabia: Rep­ The state of human rights in the ression in the Name of Security Middle East and North Africa AI Ground Missions: Saudi au- AI ground missions: February, thorities denied access; but AI April, September and November- closely monitored developments December for research and through longstanding ties with meetings with the government. individuals and organizations The delegation observed the first in the country. session of the trial of 23 Shi’a activists arrested in August and September. Syria Reports: Deadly detention: Deaths in custody amid popular Egypt protest in Syria; Crackdown Reports: ‘Shouting slogans in Syria: Terror in Tell Kalakh; into the wind’: Human rights Health Crisis: Syrian Govern­ concerns ahead of the par­ ment Targets the Wounded liamentary elections, Middle and Health Workers; Middle East and North Africa: Year of East and North Africa: Year of rebellion: The state of human rebellion: The state of human rights in the Middle East and rights in the Middle East and North Africa North Africa AI ground missions: January- AI Ground Missions: Human March, April, May, June, June- rights organizations and foreign July, August-September and journalists were barred entry to November-December Syria; AI delegates traveled to Lebanon in April and May, and Israel and Occupied to Turkey in June, to speak to Territories Syrians who had recently fled. Reports: Dashed Hopes: Con­ tinuation of the Gaza blockade Tunisia AI Ground Missions: May and Reports: Tunisia: Human November rights agenda for change; Tunisia in Revolt: State violence Libya during anti-government pro­ Reports: The Battle for Libya: tests; Middle East and North Killings, disappearances and Africa: Year of rebellion: The torture, Middle East and North state of human rights in the

A woman casts her vote in the G uy M ar © referendum on how Egypt’s new Africa: Year of rebellion: The Middle East and North Africa government should be formed state of human rights in the AI Ground Missions: January, following the Feb. 11, 2011, resignation of the late President t i n/ P Middle East and North Africa February-March, April and Hosni Mubarak. AI Ground Missions: February- October A NO S

8 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report © David Rose/Panos Pictures ibya ibya he city city he T arge numbers numbers arge L , Amnesty International’s senior crisis response senior crisis , Amnesty International’s overa Donatella R Donatella A war-torn street in Libya, April 2011. A war-torn town every day, in residential areas. areas. residential in every day, town from late Februaryfrom late May. to by tank rounds and mortars. Many were killed in their their in killed were mortars. and Many rounds tank by homes, others as they were trying to flee—including flee—including to trying were they as others homes, advisor, who concluded a three-month who concluded L to ground mission advisor, violations I witnessed occurred in Misratah. Misratah. in occurred witnessed I violations al-Gaddafi’s by surrounded siege, under completely was in April, rockets were literally raining down all over the the over all down raining literally were rockets April, in forces, with the only access by sea. When I was there there was I access sea. When by only the with forces, of people were killed in indiscriminate rocket attacks, attacks, rocket indiscriminate in killed were people of children and elderly people—and hundreds lost limbs limbs lost people—and hundreds elderly and children and sustained horrendous injuries.” horrendous sustained and “Without a shadow of doubt, the worst human rights rights worst human the doubt, of shadow a “Without t t AIUSA 2011 Annual Repor

crisis prevention and response 9 A woman boards a boat as thousands of Syrian refugees try to escape Libya at the port in Benghazi, days after the beginnings of the February 2011 revolution against the 41-year rule of Col. Muammar Gaddafi. Syria sent ships to evacuate their citizens, but there was room for just 1,000 passengers on each. © M ads Niss en / Be r l i n gsk e Pa no s Pic t ur e ©

10 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report i n divid ual s at r is k Faces of Freedom

The collective action of hundreds of thousands of members around the world power Amnesty International’s life-saving campaigns on behalf of prisoners of conscience and people at risk of forced evictions and other human rights abuses. Since our founding 50 years ago, AI activists’ letters, faxes, petitions, vigils and protests have contributed to the freedom of tens of thousands of brave people who endured unjust imprisonment, abuse and torture—and have brought comfort and hope to countless prisoners in despair. Here is a selection of cases that saw positive results in 2011 following action by AI members.

Zahra Salih, YEMEN Haytham al-Maleh, SYRIA Released: January 11 Released: March 8 Zahra Salih, an activist in Yemen’s Southern Haytham al-Maleh was arrested on Oct. 14, Movement, was arrested in November 2010 2009, and convicted following an unfair trial and held incommunicado for more than two on charges related to his efforts to expose months. human rights violations in Syria. Al-Maleh was released as part of an amnesty ordered by President Bashar al-Assad.

Natallya Radzina, BELARUS “I would like to thank Released on bail: January all the workers at Natallya Radzina was among the 30 people Amnesty International detained for taking part in a largely peaceful and all those who demonstration in Minsk, Belarus, to protest supported my the alleged rigging of presidential elections case, whether they “It was you, my friends and saviors from Amnesty in December 2010. were individuals or International, who kept alight the flame of hope in my soul. governments, from I received messages from you while at the remotest places “I am free only around the world. I because of you . . hope to keep the promise I made to those and most desperate situations. These messages gave Because of each who have supported me, by continuing with comfort to my soul, inspired hope in dead-end situations. human rights activist, my work. I call on the government to release each politician all the prisoners of conscience in ‘Adra Your campaign and your letters helped me out of the abyss or journalist who prison and the thousands of others like them of despair. Amnesty International has once again proved supported me even detained in security facilities.” its inestimable worth, its hope for salvation. I am grateful just with words. It is —Haytham al-Maleh thanks to your support to you. You have saved my family from death, and I’ll never and your prayers. I am no mythological hero; forget you, to the end of my life. I was not alone in my prison, together you are a huge uncrushable force, capable of influencing events.” Aakash Mallah and Noor in winter or summer, on dark or bright days.” —Natallya Radzina, Mohammad Khaskheli, —Eynulla Fatullayev in a message to supporters Released: March 17

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individuals at risk 14 d eat h penalt y a b ol i t on A Critical Turning Point

The death penalty is the ultimate, irreversible denial of human rights. By working toward the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, Amnesty International’s Death Penalty Abolition Campaign works to end the cycle of violence created by a system riddled with economic and racial bias and tainted with human error. AIUSA campaigns to abolish the death penalty in the United States by focusing on individual cases of injustice, supporting work for death penalty repeal efforts in the states, and educating campuses and communities about the fatally flawed nature of our system.

On September 21, 2011 the legal representation, and state of Georgia killed Troy an unresponsive appeals Davis by , process. By the time Davis despite profound and abiding faced his fourth and final doubt about the legitimacy of execution date, Amnesty his conviction. His death was International had collected mourned by the hundreds of 1 million petition signatures thousands of people around urging Georgia authorities the world who had joined to stop the execution and Amnesty International’s recruited a constellation unprecedented campaign of high-profile supporters to stop the execution. Yet ranging from Archbishop despite the tragedy of Davis’ Desmond Tutu and Pope execution, death penalty Benedict XVI to former U.S. abolitionists saw the killing President Jimmy Carter and as a critical turning point in former FBI Chief William the movement to abolish the Sessions. After four years of death penalty. methodical organizing and Amnesty International first coalition work on the ground Democracy Now host Amy Goodman began campaigning on Davis’ in Georgia, AIUSA mounted interviews former AIUSA Executive Director Larry Cox, Troy Davis nephew

behalf in 2007 because his an aggressive national social sc ott l a n g le y © De’Jaun Correia and NAACP President case illustrated some of the media push to bring the and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous deep flaws in the U.S. death death penalty to the forefront outside the Georgia Diagnostic Prison in Jackson, Ga., hours before Troy penalty system: police coer- of national debate. Davis was executed. cion, racial bias, inadequate

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death penalty abolition 16 s e c ur i t y wi h u m an r igh Defending CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS In February Amnesty International members pres- sured Switzerland to fulfill its obligations under the Convention against Torture by opening an investigation the Rule of Law into the use of torture by the Bush administration as the former President planned a visit to the country. President Bush eventually cancelled his visit.

As former Vice President Dick Cheney promoted his memoir In My Time, Amnesty International mounted protests at several promotional events, including an ap- pearance on the Today Show, which attracted significant media interest and raised awareness of the importance of accountability.

Throughout the year the campaign collected more than 60,000 petition signatures calling for the U.S. gov- ernment to extend an official apology to Maher Arar, a Ca- nadian national who was detained while transiting through the United States and illegally rendered to Syria, where he was detained and tortured for more than a year. U.S. courts have thus far refused his right to seek remedy. AI continues to collect petition signatures on Arar’s behalf.

Amnesty International activists In September Amnesty International marked the 10th call on the U.S. government anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and launched an action to either charge or release calling on the U.S. government to fully fund the James Guantánamo detainee Shaker Aamer outside the Department of Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, an impor- Justice on January 11, 2011, the tant piece of legislation that will help ailing first respond- 9th anniversary of “war on terror” ers and other survivors of the September 11 attacks. detentions at the U.S. Naval Base. AI ©

Amnesty International’s Security with Human of the Bush administration Defense Authorization President Obama when he the campaign was un- gave interviews claiming that Act (NDAA) came up for first came into office. able to stop the passage Rights Campaign works to ensure security for vital intelligence obtained renewal in the fall of 2011, a Working in coalition with the of the detention provisions all by breaking the cycle of terror and torture through waterboarding had coalition of national security ACLU, , contained in the NDAA; once between armed groups and states. led to the discovery of bin hardliners led by Senators Human Rights First and the bill passed both houses Laden’s location. Although Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and other human rights and civil of Congress, AI focused on it soon emerged that this John McCain (R-AZ) seized liberties groups, Amnesty pressuring President Obama was not in fact the case— the opportunity to extend International rallied oppo- to use his veto. More than Amnesty International tion techniques (EITs) and to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the “war on terror” frame- sition to these provisions 50,000 AI members took fought attempts by con- extend the use of indefinite had actually successfully work and mandate that all of the NDAA. Grassroots action, and although the gressional lawmakers to detention without trial for ter- concealed the true identity foreign terrorism suspects be lobbying helped to persuade president signed the bill into reverse some of the modest rorism suspects, AI mobilized of bin Laden’s courier under transferred to Guantánamo enough senators to speak out law, he did append a signing improvements the Obama national opposition to the torture—the proponents Bay for trial by military com- against Sen. Ayotte’s amend- statement that made it clear administration has initiated proposals. of EITs were nevertheless mission. Senator Kelly Ayotte ment, which was ultimately that his administration would in U.S. counterterrorism After U.S. Navy Seals emboldened by the debate to (R-NH) sought to introduce withdrawn. Ayotte later told continue to favor civilian policy. As lawmakers sought killed Osama bin Laden dur- promote the reintroduction of a “torture amendment” that senior congressional allies federal courts for terrorism to reauthorize the use of ing a May 2011 raid in Paki- such measures. would allow U.S. personnel that she would not try to pass suspects. so-called enhanced interroga- stan, several former members When the National to apply the EITs banned by such an amendment again.

17 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report S ci en c e f or Hu m an Righ t s Satellites Monitor Rights Violations

Amnesty International’s Science for Human Rights program has become a leader in the use of geospatial imaging in the monitoring of human rights violations. Building on the success of its partnership with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AI has pioneered the collaboration of technology and human rights to augment traditional survey evidence collected by researchers during ground missions.

Darfur Nigeria Amnesty International deployed satellites Amnesty International launched the Eyes on to document continuing grave human rights Nigeria website to combine satellite imagery violations in Darfur. A comparison of satellite with existing research in an innovative images of the Negeha region of South Darfur way. The centerpiece of the website is an from January 2010 and December 2010 interactive mapping platform that integrates show that 171 homes had been destroyed, satellite images and maps with text, photos confirming reports of attacks against civilians and video. Though the website focuses on in December 2010. violations within the Niger Delta region, the Report: http://bit.ly/GraveCrimes broader Eyes on Nigeria project serves as a central organizing and outreach point for all Amnesty International work on Nigeria, including violations outside the Niger Delta North Korea region, violations of civil and political Amnesty International published satellite rights, violations of economic, social, and imagery and testimony that exposed horrific cultural rights, and violations of international conditions in North Korea’s network of political humanitarian law.www.EyesOnNigeria.org prison camps, which hold an estimated 200,000 people. The images were published in conjunction with AI interviews of former

© A m e rica n ss o cia © inmates and prison guards, who revealed that Syria prisoners are forced to work in conditions Amnesty International’s Eyes on Syria website approaching slavery and are frequently is an interactive mapping platform that subjected to torture and other cruel, inhuman, documents human rights violations, such as and degrading treatment. A comparison of the torture, in the context of the popular uprising

t i on f o r h e A d v latest images with satellite imagery from 2001 in Syria. Eyes on Syria is also an expression of indicates a significant increase in the scale international solidarity with peaceful protesters of the camps. Four of the six camps occupy in Syria, providing a platform that tracks global huge areas of land in vast wilderness sites in activism in support of the protestors’ demands South Pyongan, South Hamkyung and North for basic human rights. a n c e m ent o f S ci en Hamkyung provinces. www.EyesOnSyria.org Video: “Hell holes”: North Korea’s Secret Prison Camps http://bit.ly/Yodok

left: Satellite image of a gas flare northwest of Escravos, Nigeria.

18 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report d e m an dig n i t y Legislation on Amnesty International’s Campaign to Advance the Maternal Health Rights of Women

This past year, Amnesty International AI published reports on access advanced legislation at the national level and to maternal health and sexual and continued to push governments to improve reproductive rights in the USA and Sierra dismal maternal death rates around the Leone, adding to AI’s series of reports world. The crisis in maternal health care, covering Burkina Faso, Nicaragua, Peru, born of poverty, disenfranchisement and and Indonesia. gender discrimination, claims the lives of AIUSA activists made more than 100 more than 350,000 women in pregnancy or visits to congressional representatives to childbirth each year—primarily due to a lack support maternal health care legislation. of access to health care or health educa- AIUSA organized a congressional briefing tion. Improving maternal health is one of in Washington, D.C., that featured AIUSA the Millennium Development researcher and maternal health advocate Goals, yet progress remains well short of the Christy Turlington Burns, and was spon- 5.5 percent annual decline needed to meet sored by Representatives John Conyers the U.N.’s 2015 target. (D-MI), Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Lois With the 2011 publication of the one-year Capps (D-CA). update to Amnesty International’s report, AIUSA brought together leading Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care women’s rights advocates from around Crisis in the USA, AI reported that comparative the globe for XX Factor, a high­‑level maternal death rates have in fact worsened discussion on maternal health, reproduc- since the publication of the report, with the tive health and violence against women United States now ranking 50th in maternal held at the Ford Foundation in New York. mortality—despite the fact that it spends Participants included Michelle Bachelet, more on health care than any other nation. former president of Chile and current The Maternal Health Accountability Act of executive director of U.N. Women, and 2011 remains in committee in the 112th maternal health advocate and former first Congress despite AI’s vigorous efforts – lady of Somaliland, Edna Adan Ismail, including garnering co-sponsorship from 61 who spoke about maternal health and representatives from both parties. female circumcision.

Ending Forced CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY

Evictions AIUSA launched Eyes on Nigeria, a Women waiting outside a health website to monitor human rights viola- center in rural Huancavelica, Peru. Access to health care in Peru has One of the most widespread violations tions using satellite and remote sensing been a focus of AI’s maternal of the human right to housing is forced technologies, and gathered more than health campaign. © eviction — the removal of people against 50,000 petition signatures demanding AI their will from their homes or land without that Shell establish a $1 billion clean-up legal protections or safeguards. From Nigeria fund for Ogoniland, in the poisoned Niger The Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees not only civil to Cambodia to Serbia, Amnesty’s global Delta region. and political rights, like freedom of expression and the right to a fair trial, Rapid Response to Forced Evictions Network AIUSA signed an amicus brief in Kiobel (RRFEN) has stopped forced evictions using v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, a case under re- but also economic, social and cultural rights, including access to health traditional tools like emails and letter-writing. view by the U.S. Supreme Court. The brief care, adequate housing and a healthy environment. Recognizing the In 2011, Amnesty International USA laid the argues that corporations can be held liable interdependence of all human rights, the Demand Dignity Campaign works groundwork to join the RRFEN in 2012. in U.S. courts for human rights violations to advance all rights for all people, particularly people living in poverty. under recognized general principles of law.

19 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report COMMUNICATIONS

Amnesty International USA’s communications team combined traditional mass‑media outreach with new‑media initiatives to inform new audiences about our human rights agenda and engage them in our campaigns.

C M Y K NYxx,2011-02-06,WK,004,Bs-4C,E1 2011, the year Amnesty International After years of concentrated media work, 4 WK THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011 marked its 50th anniversary, was also a year of Amnesty International also successfully el- The Middle East milestones for the global human rights move- evated the Troy Davis death penalty case to an ment. It is fitting that Amnesty International’s international news story that lasted for several Reasons to Seethe voice was front and center in the media cover- days and directed international attention to our GYPT IS NOT ALONE. Tunisia (predating change of leadership) Palestinian Territories Lebanon Fed by the example of SYSTEMATIC TORTURE and other mistreat- RECURRING CONFLICT between TORTURE is prohibited, but former age of numerous major news developments, work to end the death penalty. AI combined E Tunisia, whose leader was driven from power by ment in police stations and detention Palestinians and Israelis — especially detainees report its use against them. demonstrations last month, centers. in and from Hamas-ruled Gaza, which including the mass protest movements that aggressive media outreach to national and anger has begun to boil Israel has tried to isolate — worsens IMPUNITY FOR ASSASSINATION has over, or threatens to do so, SEVERE RESTRICTIONS on freedom of a long-standing humanitarian and severely divided Lebanese since 2005, across a number of Arab expression, association and assembly. human rights crisis. when Prime Minister Rafik Hariri (on swept across the Middle East and North Africa regional news organizations with an innovative countries living under poster at right) was assassinated and authoritarian rule or, in the HARASSMENT by threats or prosecution, of ECONOMIC UPHEAVAL: Mass unemploy- suspicions focused on Hezbollah, acting and the unprecedented international mobiliza- Palestinians’ case, in a state journalists, human rights defenders and ment, extreme poverty, food insecu- in concert with Syria. new media campaign, “Too Much Doubt,” that of intermittent conflict. student activists who criticized the regime. rity and food price rises caused by While the fury has varied shortages have left four in five Gazans HARASSMENT OF MEDIA: Lebanon's tion to stop the state of Georgia from executing gained startling momentum on Facebook and roots, clues to its depth are dependent on humanitarian aid. media community is robust, but some offered by snapshots of 14% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE writers and bloggers critical of the army rights violations reported FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, DETENTIONS: or officials are detained. Troy Davis. Twitter. by Amnesty Interna- Israeli restrictions and settlement tional and Human activity hamper Palestinian movement OF LEBANESE As mass protest spread from Tunisia to In its December 8 issue, Time magazine Rights Watch in in the West Bank. Rights organiza- the region 28% BELOW POVERTY LINE tions cite arbitrary detentions by both during the Israeli and Palestinian security forces. Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Syria during the named the Troy Davis case as the tenth biggest last year. 40% GAZA UNEMPLOYMENT RATE “Arab Spring,” our communications team was news story of the year, and media organizations OF PEOPLE IN GAZA 70% BELOW POVERTY LINE instrumental in spotlighting the findings of our continue to reference the case as one that 16.5% WEST BANK UNEMPLOYMENT RATE researchers on the ground. AI quickly became 46% OF PEOPLE IN WEST BANK Syria exemplifies the doubt that plagues the U.S. BELOW POVERTY LINE A LICENSE FOR ABUSE: Syria has been a critical source of real-time documentation of under a state of emergency since death penalty system. It was unequivocally the IRAQ 1963. Political activists, human rights defenders, bloggers, Kurdish minority human rights abuses committed by govern- biggest news story Amnesty International has activists and critics of the government encounter arbitrary arrest, prolonged ment forces cracking down on protest, as well Jordan detention and prison terms. generated over the past decade. Between the ALGERIA SYSTEMATIC TORTURE: Reports of this SYSTEMATIC TORTURE and other Cairo as a source of historical human rights context. announcement of Troy Davis’ final execution and other mistreatment of detainees. mistreatment is reported in police LIBYA stations, detention centers and RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRES- prisons. Among the numerous news outlets that cited date and his funeral, more than 7,000 media SION were imposed in September under a law leaving journalists and INEQUALITY OF WOMEN in marriage and AI research in their coverage of the Middle organizations cited Amnesty International in others liable to prosecution for inheritance rights is enshrined in law; “insulting” the king, the judiciary and the penal code allows lower penalties Egypt religion. for murder and other violent crimes East and North Africa were The New York reference to the case, including 1,200 on against women in defense of family A LICENSE FOR ABUSE is provided by DANGER TO WOMEN who are accused of “honor.” Times, the Associated Press, The Washington a 30-year-old state of emergency. violating a family’s honor. Twenty-four the day of the execution. The media coverage The authorities detain peaceful were reported to have been victims of critics of the government as well “honor killings” by family members in Post, USA Today, and National Public Radio. helped AI recruit 170,000 new supporters to as people suspected of terrorism 2009. SAUDI ARABIA and offenses against national security. Some are detained The Washington Post even requested to ac- join our Death Penalty Abolition campaign. without charge or trial despite OMAN % UNEMPLOYMENT RATE court orders for their release. 13.4 company AI researchers on the ground, and In addition to its vigorous efforts to boost

TRIALS of civilians are conducted before military courts, in breach of two-time Pulitzer Prize‑winning correspondent AI’s visibility during these and countless other international fair trial standards and with no recourse for appeal. Anthony Shadid cited AI in his exemplary re- major news developments, the online commu- SYSTEMATIC TORTURE and other Yemen mistreatment of political prisoners portage on the region for The New York Times. nications team also launched the organization’s and individuals charged with REPORTS OF TORTURE and other common crimes is widespread in mistreatment of detainees by police Our online communications team kept AI’s police cells, security police and prison guards include use of redesigned website—the culmination of a year- detention centers and prisons. beatings with sticks and rifle butts, kicking and punching, and suspen- supporters in the digital realm informed of long project to improve its structure, design RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOMS sion by the wrists and ankles. include detentions of journalists and bloggers. RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOMS include human rights violations across the Middle and functionality. The new website presents establishment of a court in 2009 to ELECTORAL PROBLEMS in the 2010 try cases related to the media, the East and North Africa. AI published more than up-to-the-minute news about AI’s current parliamentary contests included confiscation of newspapers, and the restrictions on opposition political use of troops to prevent publication parties and harassment of them. by Al Ayyam, a large daily two dozen posts about developments in the human rights work and provides action op- newspaper. RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION: Bahais, region on its Human Rights Now! blog, hosted portunities for members and new visitors alike. RALLYING CRY Khaled Said is alleged to have been Coptic Christians and other WOMEN face discrimination under ARRESTED Tawakkol Karman, dragged out of an Internet cafe by plainclothes police in minorities continued to face official the law and are subjected to early a journalist, was detained for Alexandria and beaten to death. Said has been adopted discrimination, including limits on and forced marriage; they are taking part in a student Facebook chats with our regional experts, and The new, award-winning design incorporates a by Egyptians as a symbol of security forces’ brutality. reconstruction of churches. believed to suffer high levels of demonstration expressing violence within their families. sympathy for Tunisians. promoted engagement opportunities to hun- versatile open-source technology that will allow

20% OF EGYPTIANS BELOW POVERTY LINE 35% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE 45% OF YEMENIS BELOW POVERTY LINE dreds of thousands of supporters on Facebook for future growth and innovation.

Sources: Geoffrey Mock, Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; CIA World Factbook (economic data); Natural Earth (map terrain) BILL MARSH AND JOE BURGESS/THE NEW YORK TIMES; PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMAL SAIDI/REUTERS (LEBANON); KHALED DESOUKI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE–GETTY IMAGES (EGYPT); KHALED FAZAA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE–GETTY IMAGES (YEMEN) and Twitter.

America’s Journeys With Strongmen

20 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report that American-backed strongmen are not inev- and was a “modernizer” at home, he said. “His- From Page 1 itably succeeded by America-hating strongmen. toric change outpaced the modernizer, as often they did not get was a functioning Egyptian de- But Mr. Schmitz watches diplomacy from the occurs.” mocracy. The apocryphal comment about a for- tranquil distance of the academy. Ask a onetime Rashid Khalidi, professor of modern Arab eign strongman often attributed to Franklin practitioner, Zbigniew Brzezinski, President studies at Columbia and a former adviser to Pal- Delano Roosevelt sums it up nicely: he may be a Carter’s national security adviser at the time of estinian peace negotiators, rejects this brand of son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch. the shah’s fall, and you get a very different view. realpolitik. The ostensible benefits the United History is rich with precedents. In 1959, there No administration, he noted, starts with an ideal States has derived from its backing of Mr. Muba- was Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, darling of Ameri- set of international partners. rak are illusory, he said: the peace between can corporations and organized crime, fleeing “To conduct foreign policy,” he said, “we have Egypt and Israel has not yet brought a peace be- with an ill-gotten fortune of $300 million as Fidel to deal with the governments that exist. And tween Israel and the Palestinians; oppression in Castro’s troops reached Havana. some of those are dictatorships.” Egypt has actually fueled terrorism, even if In 1979, it was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the When Mr. Brzezinski and his boss encoun- some of its Egyptian practitioners, like Ayman shah of Iran, abandoning the throne in the face tered the shah’s dictatorship, the only other al-Zawahiri, the deputy leader of Al Qaeda, have of a revolt two years after President Jimmy Car- power centers in Iran were the Communists of fled Egypt proper; and as is self-evident today, ter toasted his country as “an island of stability.” the Tudeh Party and the mullahs of the mosques, stability did not last. In 1986, the turn came for Ferdinand Marcos, he said. As the popular revolt against the shah Other cooperation has left a stain on Amer- ousted by the Philippines’ People Power move- grew, he said, the Carter administration was di- ica’s reputation. The Bush administration sent ment five years after Vice President George vided. Some officials thought Ayatollah Khomei- some terrorist suspects to Egypt, where they H. W. Bush told him at a luncheon: “We love ni, returning from exile, might provide a reason- later said they were tortured. Today, protesters your adherence to democratic principles and to able alternative. Mr. Brzezinski disagreed. in Cairo hold up spent tear gas canisters with the democratic process.” “My view was that the shah should crack American labels. Such policies were “bankrupt The list could be extended. Since World War down and then begin aggressive reforms,” he re- morally and stupid politically,” Mr. Khalidi said. II, the White House, under the management of called. He lost the argument. Three decades lat- “I know it’s easy to talk about American being both parties, has smiled on at least a couple of er, the United States is trying to prevent the the- true to its values,” he said. “But you know, some- dozen despots. (“Friendly Dictators Trading ocracy that followed from getting nuclear weap- times it makes sense.” Cards,” marketed by a publisher in ons. It is at least an arguable position that Mr. The evolving statements from the Obama ad- the 1990s, featured “36 of America’s most embar- Brzezinski’s formula of crackdown and reform, if ministration show officials feeling their way rassing allies.”) it had worked, would have produced better long- through the tricky intersection of morality and “It used to be anti-Communism,” said David F. term results for the rights of Iranians, as well as DREW ANGERER/THE NEW YORK TIMES pragmatism, as they separate from an ally of 30 Schmitz, a historian at Whitman College and au- for international security. years. Every statement from the White House thor of two books on the American attachment to Partners Sept. 1 in the Oval Office. Mr. Brzezinski says Egypt’s prospects if Mr. and State Department is parsed for nuance in dictators. “Now it’s most often moderates who Mubarak is toppled are brighter than Iran’s in Egypt, in Israel and at home. stand against radicalism in the world of Islam.” 1979: “The army is respected and has a lot of When Mr. Obama said on Tuesday that an “or- Mr. Schmitz deplores the phenomenon, which support across the country. There is a middle derly transition” in Egypt “must begin now,” for he believes has too often bought an ersatz stabil- tro politicians in Miami and beyond. class of sorts. And the Muslim Brotherhood is instance, Mr. Brzezinski winced. “I wish he’d ity at a very high price. By backing an autocrat, Iran, too, got mired in a new brand of undemo- still under control,” reducing the risk that a theo- said ‘should begin now.’ ” he said, America often ensures that “the political cratic rule after the shah. The United States still cratic regime would emerge. “It sounds like an order,” he said. “Egypt is a center gets destroyed, giving credence to ex- faces a hostile regime ruled by ayatollahs and Mr. Brzezinski was Mr. Carter’s adviser when proud country, and Egyptians aren’t going to lis- tremists’ arguments and discrediting the U.S.” protected by a brutal, profiteering Revolution- Mr. Sadat signed the historic peace treaty with ten to orders. They might listen to suggestions.” After all, the man who felled Batista, the viru- ary Guard — tough enough to have weathered Israel’s Menachem Begin, and while he now its own Egyptian-style uprising in 2009. lently anti-American Mr. Castro, is still in power says Mr. Mubarak’s time has passed, he by no ONLINE: ONLINE: UNPREDICTABLE UPRISINGS more than 50 years later. Cuban-American rela- The Philippines are a less dispiriting example. means considers American support for him to tions produced a brush with thermonuclear war With a belated but definitive push from Wash- have been a tragic mistake. “I would say it was a A slide show on the twists and turns of in 1962, a permanently crippled Cuban economy ington, the dictator there gave way to democra- good deal for the U.S. and for Egypt,” he said. revolutions throughout history. and — well, generations of successful anti-Cas- cy; however imperfect, that outcome suggests Mr. Mubarak consolidated peace in the region nytimes.com/weekinreview MEMBERSHIP

Amnesty International’s membership rights leaders (ages 14 – 25) and educators initiatives generated momentum that was to hear from internationally renowned human critical to the success of its human rights rights defenders, learn about AI’s work, train campaigns. The year kicked off with an in- to become effective leaders, and meet other district lobbying blitz in Illinois that helped like-minded students at the local, national lead to the passage of that state’s death and international levels. Activists came from penalty abolition bill in March. Amnesty 43 states and represented 105 schools and International also engaged its members in universities. several solidarity actions, ranging from rallies over the summer months, Amnesty held at Egyptian consulates across the country to training sessions to help new and veteran demonstrations against state-based anti- volunteer leaders develop expertise on our immigrant rights legislation. priority campaign issues and hone advocacy the 2011 Annual General Meeting in San skills such as speaking to the media about Francisco, a celebration of the organization’s key issues, recruiting volunteers, running 50th anniversary, was the largest to date. meetings and doing coalition outreach. These More than 1,000 people attended panel sessions also helped activists gear up for AI’s discussions by some of the world’s leading regional conferences, which drew nearly 1,800 human rights defenders (most of whom AI has people who networked, shared information and defended over the years), took part in training learned about the latest tactics in grassroots sessions on media outreach and organizing, advocacy. In another surge of grassroots and networked with their fellow human rights activism, an estimated 100,000 people in the activists. United States took part in this year’s Write for the week before the annual conference, Rights, and participants pledged more than nearly 350 young activists, educators, faculty 265,000 letters on 15 cases. They gathered advisors and local group members from across in homes, auditoriums, schools and cafes the country gathered for the milestone AI in 1,100 events across the country, joining youth summit, Destination: Change Our World, hundreds of thousands of other letter writers at the University of California, Berkeley. This in more than 80 countries—making the 2011 event provided opportunities for young human Write-a-thon the largest ever.

Amnesty International USA members at the annual Get On The Bus event in in April 2011.

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TOTAL $ 36,932,571 $ 1,888,082 $ 6,504,253 $ 45,324,906 $ 46,009,280

23 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report DONORS AND SUPPORTERS

Executive Director’s Leadership Council Individuals, Family Foundations and Corporations The David and Mary Harbeitner Charitable Gift Fund At the invitation of Amnesty International USA, members of the Executive Our special thanks go to the following individuals and family Jeff Hartline Director’s Leadership Council provide leadership support, guidance and foundations for providing major gifts and financial stability to our Carolyn Hartnett advocacy strength to advance human rights regionally and nationally. work in fiscal year 2011. The Haskell Fund Mrs. Serena Hatch Patricia Shield Ayres and Betsy and Paul Mazursky Ware and Ellen Adams Jonathan L. Cohen Roslyn G. Hees and Mr. Donal O’Leary Robert Ayres Eric Michelsen James and Mary Adelstein Bridget L. Cooke Josefine Heim-Hall David Boatwright Michael and Bonnie Rothman Heinz and Margaret Aeschbach The Copham Family Foundation Dawson Heron Joe W. Bratcher III Carol and Harry Salo The Sidney and Beatrice Albert Anne Cowett Arnold Hiatt Philip Emminger Dr. Andrew M. Sessler Foundation Reverend Stuart P. Coxhead, Jr. The Joe Higdon and Ellen Sudow Fund Stuart Feigin Stephen M. Silberstein George and Herawati Alvarez-Correa Ms. Judith M. Cram and Charlotte Hill Pat Flynn and Bob Flynn John V. Stevens, Jr. John and Alix Ankele Mr. Ronald P. Soltman Ms. Evan Claire Hoogs Joan and Philip Haan Philippe Villers Anonymous Donor (4) Eleanor Crook The Ron and Cheryl Howard Roslyn Hees and Donal O’Leary Michael Wall Around Foundation The Davee Foundation Family Foundation Carolyn Mary Kleefeld Lee and Peggy Zeigler James H. Averill Ms. Hester Diamond Raymond Huger and Beth McKee-Huger Rick & Sue Ayre Dr. George Divine Carl Jacobs Foundation Robert and Patricia Ayres Edna Douglas The Brightwater Fund, Mr. & Mrs. D. Euan Baird George W. and Valerie L. Downes Gloria Jarecki, President development commitee The Cameron and Jane Baird Charitable Fund Jennifer Jenkins and Charles Jenkins Michael MacLeod, Chair Pat Flynn Foundation Virginia Dwan Alan K. and Cledith M. Jennings Steve Abrams Phyllis Freedman The Baldwin Family Fund for Embrey Family Foundation Foundation Ellen Benjamin Sherry Frumkin peace and Justice Todd Evans Al and Diane Kaneb David Boatwright Shahram Hashemi Matt and Margaret Balitsaris Tom and Marcia Faschingbauer Rochelle S. Kaplan and Kristina Brady Eric Michelsen Gustavo E. Bamberger and Stuart Feigin Arthur D. Lipson Steve Daigneault Martha Van Haitsma Judith Watson and Daniel Finnegan Heather and Robert Keane The Barrington Foundation David and Marianna Fisher Family Foundation, Inc. Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation FJC, A Foundation of Donor Richard Keiser John and Linda Benner Advised Funds Frank Kendall and Beth Halpern Foundation Support Dennis Bergren Pat Flynn and Bob Flynn The Stephen and Tabitha King Arthur Berliner D’Ette Fowlkes Foundation As Amnesty International USA works to expand this relatively nascent Bernheim Foundation Frankel Family Foundation Carolyn Mary Kleefeld program, we are grateful for the collaboration of our institutional donors, Arlene and Cliff Blaker Franklin Philanthropic Foundation Stefan and Katja Knupfer along with their generous financial support. While the investment of Dr. Lisa Boardman Jim Fraser Roger L. Kohn foundations in Amnesty International USA certainly helps to diversify our David Boatwright Sherry and Leo Frumkin The Neil Kreitman Foundation income and increase our sustainability, these partnerships also expand Linda Boonshoft Paul Funk Peggy Kriegel the scope of our work and fuel innovation. Laura & Stefan Budac Todd and Treacy Gaffney Jane Kristof Reverend & Mrs. C. Frederick Buechner Gaucho Fund, Santa Fe George and Eddy Krumme The Dudley Foundation Proteus Action League John T. Bullitt Community Foundation Julia M. and Frank Ladner The Fatta Foundation The Samuel Rubin Foundation The Bunting Family Foundation Deirdre M. Giblin and David B. DuBard Janette Leonidou Ford Foundation Tides Foundation Peter Calingaert Brook Glaefke The Lon & Nancy Lewis Family Humanity United Tres Chicas Foundation John Cawley and Christine Marshall Jackson and Irene Golden Charles Liebman Joan K. Davidson Two Commandments Foundation Fay Chandler Charitable Trust The Link Foundation (The J.M. Kaplan Fund) Wallace Global Fund Kathleen Cheevers Ms. Tara Greenway and Dr. Harold W. Lischner Lawson Valentine Foundation Working Assets/CREDO Grantmaking Polly Cherner Mr. Lawrence Leibowitz Benjamin Loevinsohn and The Libra Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation Joanne Cipolla Moore Joan B. and Philip C. Haan Anne Ellsworth Oak Foundation Anonymous Donor David R. Clark Colleen and Robert D. Haas Linda Look Open Society Foundations The Cogan Family Foundation The Otto Haas Charitable Trust Sabrina Mac Lean Piersol Foundation, Inc Jace Cohen Frederick and Lynn Hanna Michael MacLeod

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Ed and Kathy Ludwig Harry and Carol Salo CIRCLE OF LIGHT David J. Bamberger Betsy and Paul Mazursky Betty J. Sanders Mildred S. Barish Leslie and Mark McGauley William Scanlan The Circle of Light honors members who have made a commitment to stop Carol A. Barker Susan McMillam Schaffner Family Foundation future human rights abuses wherever and whenever they occur. The following Robert Barnes and Sylvia Kashdan Eric and Laura Michelsen The Benjamin and Sophie Scher members have helped to secure the future strength of our human rights move­ Pamela M. Barnes The Middle Passage Foundation Charitable Foundation ment through a gift in their long-range plans. These individuals have provided Linda S. Barone Leo Model Foundation Skipjack Fund, Shelley Scheuer for AIUSA in one or more of the following ways: included a bequest in a will or Margaret L. Barshell James Modrall The Sandpiper Fund, Inc. living trust, named AIUSA a beneficiary of a retirement plan or life insurance Lee Bartell Clark and Jane Moeller Dr. Andrew M. Sessler policy, and/or established a charitable trust or charitable gift annuity to benefit John and Shelly Barth Ron Moore Eldar Shafir AIUSA. Please join the more than 1,000 current members who have already Patricia Bartlett Lewis Moyse Ben and Norma Shapiro established a legacy to sustain the mission of AIUSA. Harold and Lillian Barton Beth Mullen The Shifting Foundation Lawrence A. Basile Carol Muller Alexandra and David Shirey Elizabeth Lee Abbott Diane C. Aragon Thomas Bauch Margueritte S. Murphy and Stephen M. Silberstein Helen Ackerson Esther Archie Ross Baumstone Brian Cooper Patricia J.S. Simpson Robert and Kerstin Adams Annette A. Arena Dory Beatrice Thomas Nagel Susan Singh Deanne L. Adams Rabih Aridi Jean Becket Gordon Naylor and Helen Stewart Peter and Betsy Snow Ofelia Adan-Fernandez Barbra Mains Armento Gerhard F. Bedding Bob Noorian Lawrence and Lillian Solomon Kathleen Agena Dianne Armstrong Delorenzo Floyd Benner Joan and Peter Novick Fund, Inc. Hans Agneessens Margie Aronson Russell H. Bennett John O’ Farrell and Gloria Principe Martin J. Spalding Michael T. and Suzan Alexander Kurt Aschermann Joan Benson Vivian and Paul Olum Mark and Andrea Spears Elizabeth Alford Jeffery S. Atwater Philip L. Bereano Charitable Foundation Arthur and Lois Stainman Edmund L. Allen Marylou Avanzino Prof. and Mrs. Paul Berg Gilman Ordway Deborah Starr Doris Altier Gilbert S. Avery, III Dr. Doris Bergen The Pamphalon Foundation, Inc. Elizabeth Steele Wendy Andberg and Michael Pileggi Dr. Malik A. Kaiyoom Awan Arthur Berliner Panaphil Foundation Peter Swift Leonard M. Anderson and Elke Maus Carolyn D. Ayers Arnold Bernstein Tom Parker and Michelle Griffin Epstein Teicher Philanthropies Donald W. and Margaret Anderson Dr. Lyndon and Mrs. Betty Babcock Richard A. Bernstein PECO Foundation William Tierney and Barry Weiss Marianne Andy Nicholas Bachelin Stephen A. Bessone Nancy & Charles Perkins Dr. Robin A. Vandermolen Craig and Joyce Antila Phipps Gary L. Bailey Charlotte Perret Milan Vetter Alan M. and Helen C. Appleford Shirley Ball continued Anne Powell Riley Phil and Kate Villers Kati and Bob Rader Betsy and Paul von Kuster John and Connie Rakoske Roger Waters Marjorie L. Reed Weiss Fagen Fund m e ss a g o f t h ank s June Reindl Mr. and Ms. Kim Wennesland “We will not be scared off by Lynnette Rhodes The Why Not Initiative Eric & Maria Rieders Diane B. Wilsey imprisonment or punishment. They Lori Fields and Marlin Risinger Edward and Barbara Wilson may arrest us, but they can’t break The Philip W. Riskin Matt & Peggy Winkler Charitable Foundation Amy Woods and family us. Freedom of speech is our right, Barbara D. Roby Wyncote Foundation NW Paul and Catherine Rosenberger The Wyss Foundation as it is the right of everyone. We will Maureen Rosenfield Zephyr Fund Rothman Family Foundation continue our struggle.” Ed Rounds and Callae Walcott-Rounds Molly Rowan Jabbar Savalan, an Azerbaijani student who was released on December Rita Rowan 26, 2011, after nearly 11 months in prison for a Facebook post calling The Shelley & Donald Rubin for a “Day of Rage” protest. His case was part of Amnesty Internation- Foundation al’s annual Global Write-a-thon, which generated more than 1 million Nancy and Miles Rubin appeals on his behalf.

25 AIUSA 2011 Annual Report m e ss a g o f t h ank s “Thank you for your hard work and your campaigns to secure my release from prison. Through your work on behalf of thousands of prisoners of conscience around the world, Amnesty International continues to be the conscience of humanity. You have a hallowed mission to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. Your letters, phone calls, and petitions were my protection during the months I spent in solitary confinement. You were my voice when I had none.”

Birtukan Mideksa, Ethiopian political opposition leader and former prisoner of conscience who was released in October 2010.

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Joan Beyer Leie and Sean Carmody Dr. Stephen J. Cummings Michele and Jeffrey Engel Lois M. Gillespie Adeline Bianchi Mary Jane Carroll Alyson Cupps Fanita English Phyllis Gillman, Ph.D. Maya and Harvey Birenbaum Deborah G. Carstens Susan V. and Robert Curtis Nancy Farmer-Lanz Lynda M. Gilman Thomas G. Black Robert L. Carter Shery Cushman Judith Farrar Carol and Rolfe Gjellstad John Blair David B. Chamberlin Lynne Cutler Dr. Jacqueline Farwell Elizabeth Gjenvick Edmond Blau Lynn and Ray Chateau Gary Cygan Henry Fehrenbacher Nancy Glaser Robert Blizard Robert A. and Janet R. Chesnut Mark Da Sylva Stuart Feigin Stanley and Edith Glenn Wayne M. Blocher Nancy and William Child Dennis Einar Dahl Martha Ferger Phyllis and Wayne Gocke Kathleen Blumenthal Irving L. Chortek Alice and Chris Dahle Joan M. Ferrante Fern L. Goering John Boduch Maria Clark and Dwight Gledhill Edith Daman Carl Ferree Georgia Golden Thelma Boeder In Memory of Charles W. ‘Chig’ Bill Danforth Nancy Dotterer Field Keith Goldstein and Donna Warrington Howard Boroughs and Evelyn E. Varner James C. Davies Phillip Field Prof. Thomas K. Goldstick Kristin Borsenik James E. and Harriett A. Clark Gilbert R. Davis and Patricia K. Davis David M. Fine Bea Goodman Richard A. Borth Carol and Tom Clark Andrew Davis Carole A. Finkel Susan Gordon Doyle Bortner in Memory Ruth and Sam Class Jane Dawson Avis and Jeffrey Fisher Jacqueline Gould of Alba P. Bortner Gary Lee Clayton Peter Day Marvin Fisher Benjamin and Pamela Graham Edna Boslet Norris C. Clement and Diane Bessell Gerry S. De Harven Paula M. Fitzmaurice Gary and Patricia Gralton Dr. D. Boulian and Ms. C. Ruebusch Marion Clement Jan De Vries Nancy Fitzpatrick Ruth Green Adele S. Bowler Sharon Cohen Drs. Andrew G. Dean and Joan L. Flanders Flora Greenhoot Ruth G. Bowman Elisa H. Coleman Consuelo M. Beck-Sagué Agatha B. and Robert B. Fleming Daniel J. Greenwald, Ph.D. John E. Bradshaw, Jr. Douglas L. and Lieselotte F. Collins Philip Glenn DeBlock Edward Flesch Colette Guggenheim Ted Brandt Jane E. Combs Frank M. Deffry, Ph.D. Virginia Fletcher Fred Guggenheim Kara Brascia Maryanne Conheim Noëlle Delore Wolfram and Faith Fliegel David Haberman Regene Braun Dorothy Conlon Nicholas L. and Dolly Demos Jane Flinn Zhila Haghbin, M.D. The William D. Bray and Frances H. Dennis R. Connolly Rodney Dennis and Donna Ellen L. Fogle Carlyn Jean Halde Bray Family Trust Laura Connolly Leslie-Dennis Ann E. Fordham Barbara M. Hale Emma Brier Jack and Robert Conrad Nina Penelope Denton, Ph.D. Doris L. Fostervold Scott B. Hall Conley Brooks Michael Cooney Stacy Deruiter Pierre Fournier Judith Hamburg Dr. Gary I. Brown Sarah J. Cooney Bruce Detwiler and Sandy Winters D’Ette Fowlkes Yvonne and Joseph Hammerquist Elayne Brown Edward T. Cooper Jamieson Deuel Carl Frank Sandra Hammersmark Emily Brown Matthew Cooper Urmila K. Devgon Julian Frederick Montagu Hankin, Jr. Emily Halicki Brown Corinne Cooperman Penelope Di Micelli Ernest Fredricksmeyer Judith Hanlon Jacquelyn Browne Michael Corrado, M.D. Emily and Robert Dillard Estelle Freedman Kathleen S. Hanold Ronald Bryant-Doxstater Edward Costello Albert R. Dilley Joel Freedman Carol Hanson Meghan Buhl Virginia M. Coupe Sharon Doll Dr. Edward Fremouw Richard E. and Diane Harder Robert P. Burchard Caroline Courts Charles H. and Beverly A. Donald Lawrence Friedman, Ph.D. Mary B. Harren Robert B. P. Burns, M.D. and Cynthia Lynne and Todd Coward John W. Donnelly Robert D. Fuld Ellis and Ellen Harris R. Burns, Ph.D. Ursula M. Cowgill Gunilla S. Doremus Richard Fursland Daniel A. Harris and Jane L. Buttars Kenneth H. Burrows Margaret Crahan Anne W. Dorweiler Peter Fuss Christopher and Sarah P. Harris John Butler Patsy Cravens Mary Doychak Josiane and Etienne Gabel Stan Hartman Mila Buz Reyes-Mesia Roger Craver Anne Doyle Bill Galloway Dennis Harvey James and Charlotte Caldwell Victoria M. Creager Alden Drew Mary E. Gamson Jeffrey S. Harwood Dr. Peter Calingaert Maria-Laura Crespo Clifford Droke and Diane Pinney Helen A. Garcia Raymond D. Hathaway Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Cannon Anne S. Crosman Gilbert Dunne, Jr. Jeneva Garrett Molly Perkins Hauck Rusty Cantor Peter Cross Jimmy Dunne Renata Gasperi Joseph R. Haun Harriet Caplan Cheney Crow Richard Dwyer Mary W. Gatewood Berttina Helmers Michael A. and Kristina M. Caplin Prudence Crowther Beth Edwards Kevin George Nancy M. Henley Mary Harrison Carle Bob and Carol Cumbie Pat Egan-Myers and Charles K. Myers Darcy J. Gerrard David W. Hester

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A. Maren Hexter Daniel M. Kaplan Anita M. LaPlaca Tina M. Martin Laura Ng Frederic Hicks Helen Karl Paul Lappe Ann R. Mason Theodore J. Nicou Dr. Vernon and George Karnoutsos Mary Larsen Norman Masonson Janet L. Niven Mrs. Elice E. Higginbotham Claire Karpov and Joe Karpov Edwin and Miriam Lasker Jeanette Mastrov Beatrice Noble Norman Higginson Dr. Deborah Eckstein Katz Philip and Lynda Lathrop Dr. David R. Matteson and Gail and Louvan Nolting Edward and Anne Hill Iris F. Kaufman and Alan Lauer Sandra L. Matteson John Nordgaard Charles K. and Mares Hirchert William M. Kaufman Margaret Laulor Kenneth and Sandra Mayberry Jaroslaw and Elizabeth Nyczak William F. Hirsch and Yvette Cardozo Marjorie Kaufman Harriet Lawrence Betsy and Paul Mazursky James C. Oberkrom Ronald and Carol Hirsh G. Armit Kaur Robert P. Lawrence H. Coleman McGinnisto Donald and Margaret O’Brien Larry Hochman Eva Kaytes Mercedes Lawry Ed and Maria McClain Jean O’Donnell Michael Hoffmand and Wendy Taylor Carolyn Keagle John Richard Leaman Chuck McCleary Eileen L. Oehler Karen M. Holgerson, Ph.D. Sam Keen Don Lebell, Ph.D. Joey McCoy K. Norah O’Grady David L. Horn Mary Keenan Sema E. Lederman Nancy and Gregory McDaniels Darcie and Christian Olson Lucille Horner Anne Kelemen Patty Lee Joe McFarlane Jane Olson John Hotchin, M.D. Wayne H. Keller Ellen P. and Roger Leeds Carole McMillen Lynn Olson and Frank Stone Dee Howard Donald M. and Katherine Z. Keller Kay Leuschner John V. Meeks Gigi Polasky Oram Marjorie Howard-Jones Mary Kellogg Dr. Robert Levin Barbara Meislin Margaret G. Orlett Warren Howe and Janet Karon Dianne Kelly Suzanne and Mark Levinson Robert C. Meissner Velva Jeanne Osborn Conrad Hunter Dorothea Kelsey Brett Miller Levy Elizabeth Melamid Jean Owen Rev. Sharon Hunzeker and Gordon J. Kendall Clifford Liehe George Mercer Kathryn L. Owens Mr. Harold Hunzeker Clarence C. and Carole J. Kent D. Lifton Linda Merman Charlotte Painter David and Arlene Iacono Daniel D. Kereth Rev. Barbara A. Linder Michael Merritt Miss Hazel Palmer Suzanne Iannucci A. Donn Kesselheim Arthur Lipkin and Robert W. Ellsworth Emily S. Meyer Sherry Palmer Carol and Carl Ingram Martha and Michael Kessler Rev. Suzanne G. Listemann Harold K. Meyer Elaine Paris Robert P. Isaacson Amy Y. Kimura Sharon Stark Dr. Michael Denis Michaelson Janice Park Grace Jackson Phyllis King Neal Lockwood Eric and Laura Michelsen John and Margaret Parke Richard Charles Jackson Nancy V. Kirk Mitzi Loftus Sara Michl Sydney Parks Dr. Walter Jakubas Richard W. Kirschner Roy A. Lombard Annette Miller Gilda C. Parrella Marvin Douglass Jensen Meg Kiuchi George and Karen Longstreth Anstiss C. Miller G. Lyndall Parsons Dr. Maryanne Jerome Russel and Yonah Klem Mona Lourie Henri E. Mitler Joanne Pawlick Tom Jewell Roxanne Klinger Gunter and Lysiane Lowinsohn John H. Moe Cynthia C. Payne Helen Jobet-Dunstan Stanton Klose Kathleen Lucatorto Seymour Moed Emma Pearce Robert and Betty Johnson Edward Klunk Jacqueline Ludel Allan F. Molgaard Jon T. Pearson and J. Patricia Gaffney Jane Johnson John G. Koch Rolf and Margaret Ludwig Filippo Moneti Mary K. Pearson Joan H. Johnson Ilse Kolbuszowski David Lukomnik Gary Monroe Judith Peck Marilyn Johnson Janet Kothrade Eileen Lum Jerry Moore and Birgitta Akesson Brian Peckman Mary L. R. Johnson Vera Kramer Katie Lunday Janie L. and Robert C. A. Moore Dean Peerman Shirley R. Johnson Marshall Krause Eileen A. Lynch Helen Moore Leonard Pellettiri Thomas J. Johnson Patricia J. Kriegler Michael F. MacLeod John Moore Louis Pelosi William M. Johnson, M.D. Jack A. Kyle Margaret T. MacNeil Gloria and Arnold Morelli Rose Penn and Marlene E. Johnson Joan S. La Croix Elisabeth MacRae-Bobynskyj Mary Moseley Rosa M. Perez-Williams Don and Louise Johnston Raymond Lagerveld Mark J. Magenheim Cathy S. Mosley Nancy Peters Ralph Jollensten and Susan Berzac Carla J. Lambarth Mary Maguire John A. and Hatsumi I. Moss Christian Peterson Judy M. Judd Rudolf Lambracht Sylvia Maizell Elaine Mundt Marianne Phelan John P. Junkroski and Patricia L. Meloy James E. and Sue G. Lamie Nancy Malecek Alice A. Murray Carol Pierce Gerritdina Justitz Peter B. Landecker Eric G. Marshall Carole Nagengast Penelope Pinson Charles Kahn Carolyn A. Landwehr Albert Martin Tima Newman Dr. Frances Fox Piven Nancy A. Kane Dr. Mary Laner Elizabeth Martin Suzy V. Newman Karen Plowden

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Steve and Michelle Pohlmeyer Keith Ross Sally Skinner-Sandford Ray C. Talania Darlene and Tom White Pearl Porterfield Margaret Ellis Rostkowski Ardys H. Smith T. Tappan Thomas White Myrna Barbara Pototsky Lewis H. Rothman Jim Smith Gerda Taranow Dr. Ron Whittaker Anne Thornton Prendergast in Memory Sara Rothmuller Joel Smith Phyllis and Richard Taylor Don C. and Julie Wilkin of Nicholas Thornton Chivers Mr. and Mrs. James Rowan Marjorie Smith Victoria Taylor Molly Willcox Robert O. Preyer Dr. Jane Rowley Susan Smith Helen Burke Thomas Paul Willen Camille Carnell Pronovost Charlotte A. Rubin Jenella Smith Emelianov David A. Thomas Mary Williams Perry Pullins Marilyn A. Ruebling Dorothy Snodgrass Cassandra J. Timmins Peter A. Willms Jennie Quan Hilda Rush Claudia Sole Walter W. Tingle and Thea F. Holmes Jeffrey Wilson George A. Quattrone, Ph.D. Carolyn S. Rusk Professor Arthur Solomon Helen Toohy Elaine Windrich Barbara Alexandra Quinn Dr. Gloria D. Rutgers Anna Sontag Juergen G. Tooren Zack Winestine and Joanne Pawlowski Paul G. Quinn Mindy Sampliner Beth Sosnick Brent A. Tozzer Norma Wolf Dr. Virginia Raad Jerome N. Scanlan Dr. William Spady Pola Fotitch Triandis Alice Wolfson Herbert H. and Mary P. Rabe Lee and Stuart Scheingold John D. Spears Andres Cartagena Troche Helen F. Wolfson James and Elizabeth Raby Ward C. Schendel and Cherrill M. Spencer George and Erika Tucker Alice H. Wolpert Charles and Audrey Raeback Catherine L.B. Schendel Pieter J. and Erna-Joan Spijkerman Georgia O. Turner Robert Worthing Helen Raffel Genevieve Schiffmann Lenore Spindelman Greg Tutunjian Betty and Ted Wurm David Raikow Diane H. Schilke Donald Spoto William E. Tyree Robert S. Wyer, Jr. Julissa Lopez Ramirez Susan Schindler Ward Stalnaker J.R. Udvadia Charles Yancy and Janet Greenlees Caroline Ramsay Merriam Jermone and Elizabeth Schneewind June C. Starck Marie Elizabeth Utzig Dr. Michael Yokell Jean Ranc Leslie Elsa Schneider John Staton Gabor Vermes and Ann Fagan Pam Young Madalene Mary Ransom Muriel Schnierow Pearl F. Steele Philippe and Katherine Villers Jan H. Zahrly Micheal J. and Laila Z. Redman Teresa Schreitmueller Jovanna Stein Carol Vogt Kit and Bill Zak Bonita Regina Stephen Schuck Marion Steininger Barbara Clare Voltz Susan Zarbock Allen Reichler John R. Schue Cookie White Stephan Margaret Vose Lee and Peggy Zeigler Jo Reichler Douglas and Joan Schwartz Elinor R. Stern Professor Paul Wadden Stephen and Sally Zorich Ila L. Reierson Elisabeth Seaman Peter Stern Phyllis Wafer Margret Zwiebel Marvin Resnick John and Irenne Sedgwick Briedis Jack and Phyllis Stevenson Florence Wagner Anne E. Rettenberg Barbara Segat Barbara L. Stewart, MLS Dr. Gloria F. Waldman James C. Reynolds David P. and Elizabeth T. Segel Susan Stievater Robin A. Wallace Lawrence Richette Dr. Andrew M. Sessler Caroline Stipe Elinore Washburn Tim C. Riedler and Yung Mi Choi Burkhard Seubert Jeanne Stoenner W. Earl Wear Brian Rinehart Judith Shapiro Ralph E. and Jan R. Stone Joan Weaver Ann Robb and Michel Cam Leonard and Dana Shaw Jerome and Betty Stone Kathy Webb Barbara H. Roberts Don Shea Daniel and Rev. Carolyn J. Strack Elaine Weidemann Joan K. Robles Teri A. Shecter Helen A. Strand Robert and Gail Weigl Rev. and Mrs. Donald Rogers Sarah K. Shed and Joel D. Davis David Strasser Marvin J. Weinberger Yvonne Rogers Susan Sheinfeld Mary J. Srattner-Gregory Mary Weinmann Sylvie Romanowski Ayne Manfroi Sheldon Mary B. Strauss Judith Weisberg Jane A. Ronca-Washburn Walter Sheppe Barbara A. Stribling Elizabeth Weiss Michael Rooney Maryclaire B. Sherin Gaby Stuart, Ph.D Joseph Weitze Betty and Jack Roosa Jim and Mai Shields Maria Nowakowska Stycos and Elaine Frain Wells Margaret Ropchan Susan Shields Joseph Mayone Stycos DeVera and Wiley D. Wenger, Jr. Barbara M. Rose Elizabeth F. Shipley John and Sheila Suarez Frances F. Werner Hanni Rose in Memory of Irwin and Renee Shishko Nancy Suhrbur Alice Reuben Weston and Skander Najar Robert Shultz Anita and Russy Sumariwalla Andrew Kopetzky David and Carol Rosen A. Joanne Siegla, C.P.A. Norma and Julian Svedosh Joan Wetherell Paul L. and Marion J. Ross Yvette D. Simpson Elliott H. Sweet Barbara Whan

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Senior staff Board of aiusa offices directors

Larry Cox CAROLE NAGENGAST, National Office Northeast Office Suzanne Nossel Chair of the Board 5 Penn Plaza 58 Day Street [since January 2012] New York, NY 10001 Davis Square Executive Director SARAH AIRD phone: (212) 807-8400 Somerville, MA 02144 JEFF BACHMAN fax: (212) 627-1451 phone: (617) 623-0202 Curt Goering SIMON BILLENNESS [email protected] fax: (617) 623-2005 Chief Operating Officer JAN KNIPPERS BLACK [email protected] KRISTINA BRADY Regional Offices Rich Graham JESSICA CARVALHO MORRIS Mid-Atlantic Office Southern Office Chief Financial Officer PRATAP CHATTERJEE 600 Pennsylvania Ave. SE 730 Peachtree St. NE LAURA FINLEY 5th Floor Suite 1060 Rachel Ward THERESA HARRIS Washington, D.C. 20003 Atlanta, GA 30308 Deputy Executive SHAHRAM HASHEMI phone: (202) 544-0200 phone: (404) 876-5661 Director of Advocacy, JOAN LIBBY-HAWK fax: (202) 546-7142 fax: (404) 876-2276 Policy and Research ANGIE HOUGAS [email protected] [email protected] WILLIAM (BILL) JONES Gouri Sadhwani KENNETH (KEN) MAYERS Mid-West Office Western Office Deputy Executive ZACHARY MICHAELSON 53 West Jackson 350 Sansome St. Director of Organizing, ELLEN MOORE Suite #731 Suite 210 Membership and CAROLE NAGENGAST , IL 60604 San Francisco, CA 94104 Campaigns ANIL RAJ phone: (312) 427-2060 phone: (415) 288-1800 JEREMY SCHROEDER fax: (312) 427-2589 fax: (415) 288-1861 TODD SCHWARZ [email protected] [email protected] ANIKET SHAH BARBARA SPROUL LINDA VEAZY SUSAN WALTZ RAFIA ZAKARIA

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