Amnesty International

Before I begin, I would just like to make it clear that I respect and hold in high regard all of the work that the various charities and in particular Amnesty International do. However, there appears to be a familiar trait occurring on every high street in Britain, something I like to call the "Clipboard Sharks". My most recent run in with the clipboard sharks came this weekend and whilst usually the Red Cross bare the brunt of my mutterings, this time it was Amnesty International........A charity I have supported many times in the past. Just as a quick synopsis, Amnesty International are a charity based around the protection of peoples humans ...  Read the complete review

i disagree with amnesty international . they say sudam had an unfair trial. he Killed hundreds and tortured them too. you sa the death penalty is inhumane to me the death penalty is humane its a quick death. Even if it was inhumane sudam was inhumane to all his victims how can amnesty international defend a man who killed many they say they defen human rights by letting this man live they are putting human's in danger. while he lives there will be disturbance in arak. I don't agree with the death penalty 100% but sadam deserves to die or rot in alkatraz. he dosen't deserve the rights of other humans his soul is destroyed . It is ...  Read the complete review

Amnesty International was set up by a man called Peter Benenson in the early 1960s. In order to protest against the treatment of certain prisoners in Portugal. Since then the organisation has expanded worldwide, and now has sections in the United States, Australia, Mexico and other countries of the world. Campaigns the organisation are dealing with at the moment include Stop Violence Against Women, Control Arms and the Death Penalty as well as campaigning for individuals at risk and opposing house demolition in Israel. The Stop Violence Against Women ...  Read the complete review

Every now and then a news article will come along that has the power to make most people in this country angry - around the world there are all kinds of injustices, and many of them do make you want to stand up and do something. As an ordinary person, there doesn't seem to be much scope for this. Whatever you might think, you can help to make a difference. Amnesty International is an organisation that challenges injustice and campaigns for human rights around the globe. It highlights the plight of people imprisonned, tortured and executed because they have said things their government didn't like, of those at the mercy of barbaric laws, of those ...  Read the complete review

When I had settled down in my job and the town I had been sent to (I didn’t know of its existence before I was, Germany is a large country, you know!) and didn’t have to think about myself all the time any longer, I thought it would be a good idea to do something for other people. There are many possibilities even in a small town, clubs, organisations and the like; the reasons why I chose to become a member of amnesty international (ai) were two sides of the same medal: I didn’t want to be in too close contact with the locals as I couldn’t understand their dialect very well at that time - I can now - and that the internationality of ai ...  Read the complete review