Amnesty 101
The official name of this organization
What is Amnesty International?
Name one way to take action on an important human-rights issue
What is letter-writing, lobbying, phone banking, creating art, etc?
One issue that has been on your mind about the U.S.
[Answers may vary]
This Palestinian activist was able to reunite with his wife and newborn child after his release from ICE detention in June
Who is Mahmoud Khalil?
The symbol for Amnesty International
What is the candle?
The type of organization Amnesty is, more specifically, the way that Amnesty receives its funding
What is a nonprofit?
Where can you find more information on Amnesty International and what the organization does
What is the official website? (www.Amnesty.org)
Name of the 2022 abortion case that struck down Roe v. Wade
What was Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization?
Name one state that passed ballot initiatives protecting the right to abortion after the reversal of Roe v. Wade
What is California, Michigan, Maryland, Ohio, and/or Vermont?
Amnesty was founded in this country
What is the United Kingdom?
Three issues that Amnesty focuses on
What are: armed conflict, arms control, death penalty, sexual and reproductive rights, child rights, climate change, detention, discrimination (+ many more)?
This is Amnesty's biggest letter-writing campaign
What is Write for Rights?
The date after which regular large-scale, non-violent protests occurred across the country, calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and for the US government to cease providing munitions to the Israeli government
When was October 7th?
This is the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same sex marriage
What is Thailand?
Amnesty won this famous award in 1977
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
What IDEA stands for
What is Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility?
This was the topic of the National Week of Student Action in 2025
What is the dismantling ICE's mass deportation machine?
Name 3 human rights issues that have recently been targeted
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In 2024, with help from Amnesty activists, this piece of legislation was passed in Arizona, ensuring the right to abortion in the state constitution
What is Proposition 139?
The year Amnesty was founded?
What is 1961?
Document that Amnesty International bases its fundamental beliefs and values on
Hint: It applies to all humans and was adopted by the UN!
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The founder of Amnesty International, Peter Benenson, founded the organization from what campaign?
Hint: Think criminal justice!
What is freeing prisoners who were arrested for their political beliefs?
The U.S. state that officially abolished the state’s death penalty after the Supreme Court declared the law arbitrary and racially biased in 2018
Hint: It borders Canada!
What is Washington?
Amnesty has helped abolish the death penalty in __ countries
What is 113?
Amnesty is active in about this many countries and territories
What is 150+?