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1977 Prisoners of Conscience Year
2.3 SEP 1977
19 September 1977 26/2
Mr Brennani
Dear Mr Armstrong
This is to inform you that on the 10th and 11th December 1977 Amnesty International will be convening a conference in Stockholm on the abolition of the death penalty throughout the world. It is to cordially invite you to attend this meeting that I am writing at the present time.
The conference will have been preceded by a set of regional seminars in Paris, Hamburg, New York, Colombo, Lusaka and perhaps the Caribbean. The latter two seminars have been organized by the All Africa Conference of Churches and the Caribbean Conference of Churches respectively.
The conference will be chaired by Mr Garfield Todd of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Persons who have already given their consent to attend the conference are the Minister of Justice of the Austrian Republic, Dr Christian Broda, Canon Burgess Carr of the All Africa Conference of Churches and Ramsey Clark, former United States Attorney-General.
You will find enclosed a factsheet which sets out the matters from which the agenda of the conference will be drawn and a brief description of Amnesty International's Death Penalty Program.
Details of practical arrangements and accommodation in Stockholm will be forwarded to all participants in due course.
The conference will launch a period of intense activity by Amesty International, in cooperation with other NGOs, towards ending the practice of the death penalty wherever it may occur in the world. We hope that you will be able to attend this important meeting which we hope will make a constructive and original contribution to the subject.
Enc.
Yours sincerely
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Martin Ennals Secretary-General
Amnesty International is a worldwide human rights movement which works impartially for the release of prisoners of conscience; men and women detained anywhere for their beliefs, colour, ethnic origin, religion or language, provided they have neither used nor advocated violence. Amnesty International oppos21 torture and capital punishment in all cases without reservation and advocates fair and prompt trials for all political prisoners. Amnesty International is independent of all governments, political factions, ideologies, economic interests and religious creeds. It is financed by its membership and by subscriptions from all parts of the world. Amnesty International has consultative status with the United Nations (ECOSOC), UNESCO and the Council of Europe, has cooperative relations with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, and has observer status with the Organization of African Unity (Bureau for the Placement, and Education of African Refugees).