DL/A-Z//AMN - [Correspondence from Amnesty International]

DL/A-Z//AMN

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[Correspondence from Amnesty International]

03/03/1999-26/09/2001

7 Letters (typescript and MS)
4 Fax

Amnesty International

The correspondence solicits and organises Doris Lessing’s participation in the Amnesty International Women’s Human Rights Conference 03/03/1999 and Human Rights Day 10/12/2000.

008 is a letter from Gaye Poulton of Amnesty International to Lessing, thanking her for talking at the Writers for Rights event at Human Rights Day: “I think everyone was very moved by what you said about our unthinking abandonment of children and therefore of childhood.

010, from Amnesty International to Lessing refers to the September 11 Attacks and invasion of Afghanistan.

011, an undated [2000?] letter to Lessing, solicits a reading for the Amnesty International Campaign to Stamp Out Torture.