Amnesty International (AI) is a nonprofit, independent international organization that works zealously to protect Human Rights around the world.
It’s an intentional organization that fights for the human rights which have been violated around the globe. It has gained support worldwide with over 7 million members and supporters around the globe.
Amnesty International primarily targets governments, but also reports on non-governmental bodies and private individuals (non-state actors).
Amnesty International was founded in London in 1961, following the publication of the article "The Forgotten Prisoners" in The Observer 28 May 1961, by the lawyer Peter Benenson. Amnesty draws attention to human rights abuses and campaigns …show more content…
Some countries have the feeling that adoption of the above rights in their constitution is immoral and ageist their religious ethical beliefs hence they have downplayed the issues through politics, and also religious groups from such countries have come out to fight out this issues terming them as vices and very immoral, and indeed abomination to their society.
It has been reported that in most peace keeping missions carried out by the UN Security Council has resulted to rape and sexual assault by the mission military groups on the ground. Women, and teenage youths have been sexually assaulted and mistreated and there has not been cases of any of the security guys brought into book. Amnesty international has been publishing and reporting all this reports but with no solid and concrete evidence to proof their allegations hence a …show more content…
an example is the issue of the gay and the lesbian rights that it has been pushing for most countries to adopt which has turned out to be immoral in some countries and moral to others.
• Members and volunteers sometimes tortured by regimes that oppose their actions and protests. Some of the protesters in different states have been arrested in Syrian and other parts of the world; others have been tear-gassed by police as they continue to protest on certain rights which have been violated by the regimes. Other members also get shot by police in their demonstrations and are either injured in the process or even shot dead.
• Some of their resource upkeep for themselves is also looted by members from communities who do not support them. Also in some places the government freezes their financial accounts if whatever they are protesting is against the government will.
• Terrorism which is a global challenge is also another