<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: 14.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Thanks for taking the time to visit my page. I would appreciate if you take a moment to read through a couple of notes about the charity I am supporting.</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: 14.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>On 22nd April 2012, I will be running the London Marathon, to raise money for Amnesty International.</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: 14.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;">Amnesty was founded in 1961 and today campaigns worldwide against human rights abuses, in six key areas:</p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Women's</span>,&nbsp;<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">children's</span>,&nbsp;<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">minorities'</span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">indigenous rights</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Ending&nbsp;<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">torture</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Abolition of the&nbsp;<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">death penalty</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Rights of&nbsp;<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">refugees</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Rights of&nbsp;<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">prisoners of conscience</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Protection of&nbsp;<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">human dignity</span></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: 14.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;">Some of the specific aims of Amnesty are to eradicate wrongs that may be personally unfamiliar to many, but are a reality across the world, in societies without the privileges of civilian liberty that many of us assume every day.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: 14.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;">These include:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 14.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">to abolish the&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">death penalty</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">, end&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">extra judicial executions</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">"disappearances,"</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">&nbsp;ensure prison conditions meet international human rights standards, ensure prompt and fair trial for all&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">political prisoners</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">, ensure free&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">education</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">&nbsp;to all children worldwide, decriminalise abortion,&nbsp;fight&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">impunity</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">&nbsp;from systems of justice, end the recruitment and use of&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">child soldiers</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">, free all&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">prisoners of conscience</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">, promote economic, social and cultural rights for marginalized communities, protect&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">human rights defenders</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">, promote&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">religious tolerance</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">, protect&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">LGBT rights</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">,&nbsp;stop&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">torture</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">&nbsp;and ill-treatment, stop unlawful killings in armed conflict, uphold the rights of&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">refugees</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">,&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">migrants</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">, and&nbsp;</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">asylum seekers</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white;">, and protect human dignity.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 14.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">http://www.amnesty.org.uk</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: 14.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #1c1c1c; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Your help wouldn't be in donations alone, but through creating awareness which you may be able to share with others. I hope you will be able to support me in any way possible and your contributions are much appreciated.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: 14.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #1c1c1c; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thank you in advance.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: 14.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #1c1c1c; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Kunaal&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: 14.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #1c1c1c; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">----------------------------------------------</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; line-height: 14.25pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;amp;amp; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: #1c1c1c; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Once you donate, they&rsquo;ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it&rsquo;s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</span></p>