The public rally to free Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday August 15th was a great success. The sun came out to greet all our activists and a total of 154 actions were signed. Guests speakers, live music and a keen interest in helping out a human rights abuse victim all contributed to making this event a great one. Thanks to all who came out and helped and for all who signed a petition. Your messages have been sent to Aung San Suu Kyi to let her know that she isn't forgotten.

On Saturday August 1st, the Stop Violence Against Women group hosted the "Support Comfort Women with Butterflies" event on Parliament House Lawns. The volunteers and activists, armed with their yellow and black butterflies, braced the wind and the rain to get butterfly petitions signed and to spread the word on the atrocities which were forced upon the Comfort Women of Japan during WWII.

Please follow this YOU-TUBE link to see how the event went. For more information on the Comfort Women of Japan, click on this comfort link.

Today at UTAS' Sandy Bay campus at lunchtime, students were happily greeted with delicious cinnamon and chocolate biscuits shaped as butterflies. The Uni Group worked diligently (and in the rain no less) to get the word out on the street about The Comfort Women of Japan and reward fellow students with a tasty treat if they signed a Butterfly petition. Grand total of Butterfly petitions signed... 150! Thank you and congrats on a job well done everyone.

In cold and wet conditions on the morning of June 4th, three members of the Devonport group of AIA gathered to remind the people of Devonport about the events of 4/6/1989 in Beijing.

On May 28th, the Hobart Action center celebrated Amnesty International's 48th Birthday with the launch of the new Demand Dignity campaign.

In honour of Refugee Week (June 14-20 2009), the Hobart Action Center is giving away "Freedom From Fear" posters for you to take into your workplace and spread the word. Stop by the office between 10am-4pm on Tuesdays to Thursdays to pick up your poster or contact us if you can't make it between these times.

On 18th of May Amnesty International Australia got some further information on the plight of the residents of Group 78 in Cambodia, who as yet, have not been evicted from their homes.

We are happy to announce this year's Branch Committee members as voted for on Saturday the 16th June 2009 at the BAGM meeting:

Are you enthusiastic about Human Rights and want to get involve with AIA's work and growth?

Are you between the ages of 18 and 24?

Thanks to International pressure, the Cambodian authorities have, for the time, held off evicting the Residents of "Group 78".