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    Amnesty International (AI) is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) with worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights." Founded in the UK in 1961, the organization works to highlight reported deviations from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations. It attempts to garner public support, most notably in the form of letter writing campaigns, in the belief that this can exert political pressure. At the 27th International Council meeting

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    AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Amnesty International is a Non-Governmental Human Rights Organization founded in 1961 by Peter Benenson a British lawyer. His newspaper appeal article, "The Forgotten Prisoners", was published globally on May 1961 and brought in over a thousand offers of support for the idea of an international organization to protect and ensure human rights. The organization had taken up more than 200 human rights cases and had set up organized national bodies in 7 countries and within twelve

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    My choice in an International, non-governmental organisation is Amnesty international. Amnesty International's only focus is improving human rights throughout in the world where it is very much needed. It is an extremely large organisation of 7 million people and the organisation has no political, religious, or economic ties (Amnesty International, 2016). Amnesty International's mission statement is as follows: "Amnesty International's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing

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    Md. Rakibul Karim (Rocky) Persuasive Outline ENG 110 08-27-2017 Amnesty International (AI) Topic: The Extraordinary activities of Amnesty International General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about AI actions and operational plans 1. Introduction: A) Attention Getter: Azza Hilal, a great voice from Egypt. When

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    Amnesty International is a non profit organization that help in the fighting of human rights all around the globe, this organization was founded by Peter Benenson in United kingdom 1961. International has close to about 7 million members all around the world, and their main objective is to ensure that human rights are never violated and also to help get justice to those whose right has been tempered with. And also they help them prevent violation of any form of films right both locally and internationally

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    like physically, verbally, and sexually. This advertisement (ad) focuses on physical abuse children and mothers face. Parents can often abuse each other which can be difficult for a child to see. Amnesty International is the organization that is responsible for putting up this ad. Amnesty International is an organization that fights for human rights for all races and genders around the world. The organization campaigns for those who are constantly tortured and denied basic human rights. In the “He

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    Amnesty International is a worldwide movement that takes injustice very personally. As Amnesty strongly believes that human rights should be enjoyed by all. Regarding this, Amnesty currently focuses on the issue of substandard medical care for individuals in Immigration Detention. The United States (US) places several hundred thousand people in Immigration Detention every year. Leaving these vulnerable in a place with inadequate, or non-existent health care. These situations resulting into great

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    Gender, Sexuality and Identity Unit at Amnesty International, sparked a very public controversy about Amnesty International’s approach to its Counter Terror with Justice campaign when she spoke to the UK’s Sunday Times. She argued that Amnesty International (“AI” or “Amnesty”) had gone too far by establishing a partnership with Moazzam Begg, a UK citizen whose ties to the Taliban were unclear. She told the Times, “I believe the campaign fundamentally damages Amnesty International’s integrity and, more

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    Amnesty International exists to combat human rights abuses They gather information and use it to expose the dark corners of regimes where people are tortured,killed, falsely imprisoned, etc. In short, rather than accept some fatalistic view that "that 's jsut the way things are (curse the darkness) they use facts and publicity (light a candle) to bring such crimes into the light. Focus area: The objective of the organisation is “to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses

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    purely racial discrimination and prejudice. Finally, “Since 1977, the overwhelming majority (77%) off death row defendants have been executed for killing white victims, even though African Americans make up about half of all homicide victims (Amnesty International).”The race of the both the victim and perpetrator in criminal is irrelevant. The purpose is to bring justice to the victim, and if the defendant is found guilty give an appropriate sentence in regards to his crime. This means that the race

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