June 26, 2006
A Special Announcement
by the Asian Human Rights CommissionNew easy process
to support the urgent appeals programmeThe Asian Human
Rights Commission’s (AHRC) Urgent Appeals Programme wishes to remind you of our
new urgent appeal online support system. We strongly urge you to use this system
and to help pressure government authorities and other relevant persons to
intervene and bring justice to all concerned.
The urgent appeals online
support system will now allow our subscribers to help victims of torture and
other human rights violations by a simple 2-step process. The system will send
multiple emails in an automatically generated way. Prior to this, people
received an email from the AHRC according to which they wrote four to ten
letters and emails to the specific recipients listed in the urgent appeal. As
far as email writing is concerned, the manual copying and pasting of the given
sample letter into new emails that are then sent by the supporter, is not
required any more.
From now on, all urgent appeals will contain a
hyperlink. Following that link brings the supporter to the AHRC website where
they can see the draft letter in an online form. They can enter their name and
email address, and with a click of a button four to ten appeals are generated
automatically in a preview. Each of them will contain the given name and address
in the email as the sender, and the respective recipient in the address field
and the salutation. After that preview, with one more click by the supporter,
all four to ten emails are sent out automatically by the system.
The
recipients will then receive an appeal from each supporter who visits the
webpage of the system. Each email may have a different subject or varying
content, as the supporter is able to edit them if he wishes to.
The
supporter only has to fill in two fields on the webpage and press two buttons.
In this easy way we hope that the support for the urgent appeals programme
world-wide will grow and the human rights violations we report on are dealt
with.
Please find below a list of links to previous appeals issued
through the new system for your support.
http://www.ahrchk.net/support.php?ua=UA-200-2006http://www.ahrchk.net/support.php?ua=UA-199-2006http://www.ahrchk.net/support.php?ua=UP-131-2006http://www.ahrchk.net/support.php?ua=UA-197-2006http://www.ahrchk.net/support.php?ua=UA-196-2006For
further inquiries regarding the system please contact the AHRC Urgent Appeals
Desk:
ua@ahrchk.orgAbout AHRC The Asian Human
Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organisation monitoring and
lobbying human rights issues in Asia. The Hong Kong-based group was founded in
1984