Amnesty international

All people have fundamental human rights. But those rights are abused or denied every single day. When that happens, Amnesty International finds the facts, exposes what’s happening, and rallies people together to force governments and others to respect everyone’s human rights. And we get results. Last year alone, Amnesty International helped free 153 people who were wrongfully imprisoned because of who they are or what they believe – and we changed laws in dozens of countries on refugees, reproductive rights, LGBT equality, free speech, the death penalty, and other critical human rights issues. From start to finish, our work focuses on the individual – people whose human rights are abused, and people who have the power to change the world. We received the Nobel Peace Prize for our life-saving work.

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From May 10-12, 2023, AIUSA joined a delegation of human, civil, and immigrants’ rights leaders led by the Haitian Bridge Alliance who visited the Texas Rio Grande Valley and the Mexican state of Tamaulipas to bear witness to the end of the Title 42 policy and the implementation of punitive policies along the border, including the Biden administration’s new asylum ban. Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist, has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years in the USA for a crime he maintains he did not commit. There are serious and ongoing concerns about the fairness of his trial and conviction. Tribal Nations, former FBI agents, and many others have called for his release. Urge President Biden to grant Leonard Peltier clemency on humanitarian grounds and release him. Amnesty International To Host Juneteenth Community Action Against Gun Violence Organizers and community partners from Amnesty International’s End Gun Violence (EGV) Task Force will be gathering at the Lyceum Conference Center in Hartford, Conn. on Saturday, June 17th to commemorate Juneteenth, the day that marks the end of slavery in the United States, and to advocate for centering racial justice in gun violence prevention advocacy.

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Show Less Amnesty International (AI), international The organization was founded through the principal efforts of the British attorney Peter Benenson, who had defended political prisoners in Hungary, AI exposes human rights violations by governments, armed political groups, companies, and other nonstate actors in newsletters, annual reports, and background papers. It relies strongly on the worldwide distribution of “adoption groups,” each of which, staffed by three to eight persons, takes on a limited number of cases of prisoners of conscience and

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