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What is Amnesty International?
I understand that Amnesty International is an organization that fights for people's rights and such, but I really would love some more in depth information regarding what it really is. I was thinking about writing letters for Amnesty International, but I want to make sure I understand what they stand for and why I am writing said letters. If anyone writes for Amnesty International or knows someone who does, I would also love to know how they got started. So... What is it (really)? Should I start writing for them? How do I get started? Do I just write and letter and send it to a government official or what?
4 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
it is a human rights organization.
- SageandscholarLv 71 decade ago
Well for a start ignore the three ignorant and hateful answers you have been given.
Amnesty International is a non-profit, non-government organization dedicated to protecting human rights particular with respect to persecution for political beliefs.
Far from being started by an Irish communist, the two founders were a British lawyer who had worked as a code breaker in WW2 and a leading British member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Neither was remotely Irish and neither was a communist.
Far from being a communist organization, or having communist leanings Amnesty found significant opposition from the USSR in the 1980s,being accused by Kruschev of espionage. Today they remain staunchly opposed to human rights abuses in Cuba, North Korea and China
Today Amnesty remains critical of any governments, of any persusasion that engage in illegal imprisonment, extrajudicial killings and other forms of persecution.
Yes Amnesty is a very fine and honorable organization with millions of members and supporters world wide of many different political leanings and you should be proud to support them.
But don't take my word for it - or the word of the other answerers I saw - here is their website - check them out for yourself.
Source(s): It is interesting to note Sophie changed her answer but still gets it wrong. Her "communist from Ireland" is assumedly Sean MacBride - a former cabinet minister in the government of the Republican of Ireland - but MacBride, while being an early member did not become prominent in Amnesty until the 1970s - a decade after the organization was founded. And while Benenson was a member and suppporter of the Labour Party - that is a long way from being a communist. As for his religion - while wondering why it is important except to an anti-semitic bigot, Benenson converted to Catholicism in 1958 - 3 years before he founded Amnesty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benenson And then when proven wrong Sophie resorts to personal abuse and repeating a lie. MacBride may have had communist leanings (but to say the entire IRA was Marxist is ignorant in the extreme) - but it does not change the fact that he did not become prominent in Amnesty until a decade after it was formed. - SophieLv 51 decade ago
Communist front organization. A Communist from Ireland and a Jewish Leftist in Britain started it. Really.
http://books.google.com/books?id=OvV69F3yLukC&pg=P...
Here you go. I thought you wanted to "really" know what it is.
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benenson
@Sagelands: Go research it, you idiot. They were Communists. McBride was in the IRA who are -- wait for it -- Marxists. Stop ranting, little boy.
- John ELv 71 decade ago
They want forgiveness for anyone for anything. Completely moral-free. Do not associate yourself with them.
