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By the mid-1960s, Amnesty International's global presence was growing and an International Secretariat and International Executive Committee were established to manage Amnesty International's national organizations, called "Sections", which had appeared in several countries. They were secretly supported by the British government at the time. [17]
Eric Baker (activist) Eric Baker (22 September 1920 – 11 July 1976) was a British activist and one of the founders of the human rights group Amnesty International, and the second Secretary-General of the organization. He was also a founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
Peter Benenson (born Peter James Henry Solomon; 31 July 1921 – 25 February 2005) was a British barrister, son of British army colonel, Harold Solomon, human rights activist and the founder of the human rights group Amnesty International (AI); a global movement of more than 10 million people, currently, and in over 150 countries and territories who campaign to end abuses on human rights and ...
In the late 1960s, Buckley joined the board of directors of Amnesty International USA. [110] He resigned in January 1978 in protest over the organization's stance against capital punishment as expressed in its Stockholm Declaration of 1977, which he said would lead to the "inevitable sectarianization of the amnesty movement". [111]
The Soviet section of Amnesty International was founded in October 1973 by a group of 11 intellectuals including Andrei Tverdokhlebov, Valentin Turchin, Yuri Orlov, Sergei Kovalev, in the same month as the USSR ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [27]
Major international human rights organizations include Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. [59] [60] The International Human Rights Arts Movement cannot claim to be a major organization, although it is significant both for its international participation and in that it seeks to highlight human rights issues through the promotion of ...
Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International is a 4-CD charity compilation album featuring new recordings of 73 compositions by Bob Dylan by multiple artists, released on January 24, 2012. [18] The set includes Dylan's original 1964 recording of the title song. [19]
Agnès Callamard (French pronunciation: [aɲɛs kalamaʁ]) is a French human rights activist who is the Secretary General of Amnesty International. [1] She was previously the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council, [2] and the former Director of the Columbia University Global Freedom of Expression project.