Eastern Suburbs

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A number of our members participated in the
Close Guantanamo Bay action in Martin Place, 2008.

We are involved in letter writing and campaigning on a broad range of human rights issues. We are a diverse group from the local community who are always looking for new members.

About Us

The Eastern Suburbs Group (formerly the Bondi Group) was founded in 1978 by Edna Vegh. Mordechai Vanunu, the nuclear technician who was imprisoned for eighteen years by the Israeli government (and is still under house arrest), was the focus of the group’s activities for a number of years. In recent years we have been involved in the David Hicks/Guantanamo Bay, Stop Violence Against Women and Human Rights and End to Torture campaigns.

Our members represent a cross-section of the Eastern Suburbs community. Many work in the city and participate in the actions Amnesty organises there, such as the Close Guantanamo Bay event in Martin Place in 2008. Several of our members have become members of the NSW Branch Committee of AIA and of the National Executive of AIA.

We usually have a guest speaker at our monthly meetings: people such as Professor Stuart Rees, Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation; Barrister Christos Mantziarias, who provided a political history of Australian Indigenous land rights; Charlotte Campbell-Stephen who spoke about her work in Kenya with AIDs victims and their families.

Come along

If you are interested, get in touch and come along! We can promise the opportunity to be involved in important events in defence of human rights plus lively debate and good company.

When we meet

We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month, except January, at Durty Nelly’s, 9–11 Glenmore Road, Paddington (just off Oxford Street). (Upstairs in the restaurant space.)

Thank you to the owners and staff of Durty Nelly’s for their continued support of our group.

Other news:

2011 is the year that Amnesty International celebrates its 50th birthday, having been founded in London in 1961. Today it is the world’s largest human rights organisation - a global movement of 3 million supporters across 150 countries. There are approximately 100,000 supporters in Australia working to defend human rights and dignity.Celebrate with us