Here's a chance to win $250 USD! Send us a slogan to spice up our merchandise and you're in with a chance of winning a nice filler for your wallet. The competition closes on November 11, so get scribbling! But please make sure you read the rules first.

If wordsmithing is not your game, please send this to friends who like to dabble.

RULES
1. Use simple, clean language.
2. Preference given to slogans that are short, smart, witty and show atheism as positive, non-confrontational and inclusive.
3. Contestants agree to assign copyright of their slogan to AAI.
4. Winning slogans may be used on the AAI website, social media, and on car stickers, t-shirts, mugs and other merchandise at AAI’s discretion.
5. Non-winning slogans will not be used by AAI.
6. Contestants confirm their entries are their own original work.
7. Slogans will be voted on by a panel of judges which will include two AAI Board members and one outside person.
8. The competition ends November 11, 2018 at midnight in your time zone. Entries received after this deadline will not be considered.
9. AAI Board members and their families are not eligible.
10. When entering, if you do not wish your name to be disclosed publicly in the event that you win, you must say so. AAI will not disclose the names of non-winners.
11. Competition results will be published on Facebook and the AAI website within 30 days of the competition close.
12. AAI reserves the right not to award all available prizes.

Send entries to aai.insider@atheistalliance.org. GOOD LUCK!
Competition sponsored by Atheist Alliance International: www.atheistalliance.org

Kasese Humanist School, which we support, continues to thrive and we are working on a fundraising initiative. We are collaborating with the School Director, Robert Bwambale, on a video to promote the school worldwide. Giving African children an opportunity to get an education untainted by religion is a virtuous mission and we are extremely grateful to all the hardworking staff.

Go to their website to see the wonderful opportunities that they provide.

Following the recent arrest of human rights campaigner Gulalai Ismail, AAI's President, Gail Miller, has written to Imran Khan, the newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan as follows:

Dear Prime Minister,
Please accept my congratulations on your election as Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. We have great hopes that your leadership will produce a change in the direction of your country away from the fundamentalism of the Taliban that it has unfortunately endured in the recent past, in some states.

Having said that, I wish to express my abhorrence at the news of the arrest of human rights campaigner Gulalai Ismail upon her return to the country of her birth. This action by the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is in direct contravention of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That Declaration was drafted in 1948 under the Chairmanship of Eleanor Roosevelt, then first lady of the USA, with Canadian, French, Chinese, and Lebanese colleagues and it remains a seminal document for individual rights and freedom worldwide.

As I’m sure you are aware, the UDHR stemmed from the Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from fear and freedom from want that were agreed by The Allies following World War Two. When implemented, the United Nations Charter "reaffirmed faith in fundamental human rights, and dignity and worth of the human person" and committed all member states to promote "universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion". Pakistan signed up to this document in 1948.

Since then, the UDHR has been translated into 307 languages/dialects and has served as the foundation for a growing number of national laws, international laws and treaties, as well as for a growing number of regional, sub-national and national institutions protecting and promoting human rights. Unfortunately, Pakistan has been tardy in implementing these humane and worthy measures.

In this particular case, Gulalai Ismail has committed no offence deserving of arrest and detention; she is merely a peaceful human rights campaigner who should be entitled to the freedoms enshrined in the UDHR, including freedom of speech and freedom of movement.

At the time of writing, I hear she has been released from detention but is being denied access to her passport. Consequently, I call upon you to restore her passport to her and to treat her with the sense of fairness that I know you, a former world-class cricketer, must subscribe to.

Yours faithfully,

Gail Miller
President of Atheist Alliance International

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