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This series documents Halperin's activity on the AIUSA Board of Directors and as Chair of the Board. The files contain binder materials from every AIUSA Board of Directors meeting, including travel itineraries, meeting agendas, previous meeting minutes, financial statements, and Amnesty International related clippings. Any correspondence pertaining to Board meetings is also included, as are Halperin's notes. Major structural topics addressed at these meetings include the AIUSA budget, the student program, and committee reports. Major human rights issues addressed by the Board include prisoners of conscience, refugees, genocide, women prisoners, conscientious objectors, and capital punishment. Other files include material pertaining to the planning of the Annual General Meeting, the International Council Meeting, program reviews, and Board correspondence. Also included are reports written by AIUSA Board Member, Winston Nagan, after a series of meetings with officials in Washington D.C. Files are arranged chronologically by date of the Board meeting, barring a few files of supplemental material.

This series documents Halperin's involvement in the Children's Action Network Steering Committee, the Conscientious Objector Support Network, the Indigenous Peoples Campaign, and the Native American Rights Campaign. Files for the Indigenous Peoples Campaign, which addressed human rights abuses of indigenous peoples in the Americas, are particularly extensive. This series includes clippings, correspondence, directories of relevant organizations, United Nations publications, and Amnesty International publications and mailings.

This series is an extensive collection of clippings on the death penalty worldwide. Halperin sent copies of these clippings to other AIUSA members on a regular basis. Articles in this series predominantly focus on specific United States death penalty cases and appeals, and related political cartoons are also included. Debates about the death penalty in the United States comprise another large portion of articles. Topics such as broadcast of executions, gas chamber vs. lethal injection, and seeking the death penalty for minors and the mentally ill are addressed. This series also contains articles about international forms of capital punishment. Events such as the execution of Ceausescu in Romania, the slaughter of children in Brazil, torture in Kenya, and the Pinochet regime in Chile are included. Files are arranged chronologically by month and year.

This small series contains material related to work of the IEC and the twentieth and twenty-first ICM. Topics such as the nomination of delegates to IEC, strategic and financial planning, and priorities of ICM working groups are addressed. This series includes notes, correspondence, calendars, reports, and resolutions. A handwritten transcript of Halperin's speech welcoming delegates to the twenty-first ICM is also included.