Amnesty International And Human Rights

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Omar Sajjad Global Perspectives Period 6 Mr. Rusnak Amnesty International Research Paper Everyday people are not granted their human rights, whether it is for what they believe in, for doing their job or for what they are. Wrongly punished and forgotten, these people have no one to help them and fight for them. This is where Amnesty International comes and plays a role to give that person his or her human rights that they were deprived from. Amnesty International, an organization, based on the idea that “every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards” (1) fights for human rights, the forgotten prisoners and many other cases. The organization backed with 3 million members in over 150 countries and territories (1) starts petitions and protests to bring justice and human rights to the forgotten and punished. With those points in mind, is Amnesty International really beneficial? Though it helps to some extent it has many flaws going from bias to time and effort consumed for a certain case. Amnesty International started in 1961 when a British lawyer Peter Benenson started a campaign called “Appeal for Amnesty 1961”. This campaign was the beginning of an organization that would fight for human rights and the forgotten. (2) The first campaign that started the organization and the campaigns that are most well known for Amnesty International regard with Prisoners of Conscience. Peter Benenson wrote the first definition of a Prisoner of Conscience and stated that “any person who is physically restrained (by imprisonment or otherwise) from expressing (in any form of words or symbols) any opinion which he honestly holds and which does not advoc... ... middle of paper ... ...s sum of money could have helped many people and could have built infrastructure that would have bettered people’s lives but like a corrupt country went inside peoples pockets. Though they have been heavily criticized for multiple times does Amnesty International help or hinder? Amnesty International has done a lot of good deeds that helped people and made a just society to some extent. It has been fulfilling its goal to give everybody their human rights and even though it has been criticized for some problems overall it has been helping rather than hindering. In my personal opinion it has helped a lot more and has looked at more 47,000 documents and cases, which in turn helped the world, at least for the most part. Amnesty International is an organization respected for leading and representing human rights and in my opinion it should still be viewed that way.

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