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Information about Human rights and Amnesty Interna
Information about Human
rights and Amnesty International
Amnesty International was launched in 1961 by Peter
Benenson, a British lawyer, after reading about two Portuguese students who had
been sentenced to seven years` imprisonment for raising their glasses in a toast
to freedom.
His newspaper appeal, "The Forgotten Prisoners", was
published worldwide on 28th May 1961 and brought in more than 1,000 offers of
support for the idea of an international campaign to protect human rights. Human
rights are set out as principles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A
declaration is not legally binding. It lays out principles and objectives and
carries moral weight.
Full human dignity means not
only freedom from torture, but also freedom from hunger. It means freedom to
vote and the right to education. It means freedom of expression and the right to
health. It means the right to enjoy all rights without discrimination.
In 1986, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration
on the Right to Development, which states
that:
"The human person is the central subject of
development and should be the participant and beneficiary of the right to
development."
Some human
rights:
- Everyone has the
right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
- All are equal
before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection
of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in
violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such
discrimination.
- Everyone has the
right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
- Everyone has the
right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the
arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
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Everyone
has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting
from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the
author.
Real Lives - Worldwide Appeal
The UK Section publishes the bi-monthly
magazine, "Amnesty", which contains information of six victims of human rights
abuse, whose cases could benefit from a mass appeal.
Every year Amnesty holds a number of short-term
campaigns (usually 3-6 months) to draw attention to human rights abuses in
specific countries.
From the beginning, the principles of strict
impartiality and independence were established. Amnesty members were to act on
cases worldwide, but not become involved in cases in their own countries and the
emphasis was on the international protection of human rights.
Early staff members and volunteers got involved in
partisan politics while working on human rights violations in their own
countries. Early campaigns failed because Amnesty was misinformed about certain
prisoners. This led to the establishment of a formidable research section and
the process of "adoption" of prisoners of conscience.
While Amnesty International will work to ensure a fair
trial for all political prisoners, it does not adopt as prisoners of conscience
anyone who has used or advocated violence for any reason. It rarely provides
statistical data on human rights abuses, and never compares the human rights
records of one country with another.
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