INTRODUCTION
Amnesty International is a global movement of people campaigning for internationally recognized human rights to be respected and protected. A worldwide voluntary based membership organization holding more than 3 million supports, members and activists from across 150 countries and territories. The amnesty international is one of the world’s largest organizations campaigning for human rights, consisting of sections, affiliated groups and individual members. It is a non-profit Non Governmental Organization. The organization aims at protecting the universally declared Human Rights through research, action and demands of justice. The organization with its motto “it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” The organization works towards building a worldwide movement of ensuring human rights and preventing brutal abuses of human rights all over the world.
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In 1973 Amnesty international held its world conference for the Abolition of Torture in Paris. The conference produced recommendations and proposals which the UN anonymously approves the resolution and denounce torture. Amnesty International is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 for "having contributed to securing the ground for freedom, for justice, and thereby also for peace in the world"
In 1980 the first campaign against death penalty was launched. It launches a second campaign against torture including the torture of abolition in 1984, and in 1986 the Amnesty International USA launches the Conspiracy of Hope concert tour with U2, Fela Kuti, Sting Peter and others. The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment enters into force in 1987. In 1989 the organization launch a new campaign against death penalty with a major report, when the state kills: the death penalty vs. human
Amnesty International is a global movement of people campaigning for internationally recognized human rights to be respected and protected. A worldwide voluntary based membership organization holding more than 3 million supports, members and activists from across 150 countries and territories. The amnesty international is one of the world’s largest organizations campaigning for human rights, consisting of sections, affiliated groups and individual members. It is a non-profit Non Governmental Organization. The organization aims at protecting the universally declared Human Rights through research, action and demands of justice. The organization with its motto “it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” The organization works towards building a worldwide movement of ensuring human rights and preventing brutal abuses of human rights all over the world.
Amnesty International is registered in England & Wales, limited by …show more content…
In 1973 Amnesty international held its world conference for the Abolition of Torture in Paris. The conference produced recommendations and proposals which the UN anonymously approves the resolution and denounce torture. Amnesty International is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 for "having contributed to securing the ground for freedom, for justice, and thereby also for peace in the world"
In 1980 the first campaign against death penalty was launched. It launches a second campaign against torture including the torture of abolition in 1984, and in 1986 the Amnesty International USA launches the Conspiracy of Hope concert tour with U2, Fela Kuti, Sting Peter and others. The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment enters into force in 1987. In 1989 the organization launch a new campaign against death penalty with a major report, when the state kills: the death penalty vs. human