"Human Rights Year 1968 stamp" [Temp.2024.5.7]

Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.5.7

Object Name
stamp

Title
Human Rights Year 1968 Prisoner of Conscience Week 17-23 November

People
Amnesty International

Date
1968

Description
Dark red stamp with black text reading "Human Rights Year 1968 Prisoner of Conscience Week 17-23 November". Below is a simple line drawing, all in black, of a flame between a laurel wreath.


Prisoner of Conscience Week was an international campaign by Amnesty International during 1968 that called on governments globally to release political and religious prisoners, and educated the public through exhibitions, meetings and vigils.

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