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Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and supporters around the world. [ 1 ]
Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is an American non-profit non-governmental organization that is part of the worldwide Amnesty International organization.. Amnesty International is an organization of more than 7 million supporters, activists and volunteers in over 150 countries, [1] with complete independence from government, corporate or national interests.
Human Rights watch and Amnesty International are both international non-governmental organizations headquartered in the North Atlantic Anglosphere that report on global human rights violations. [23] The major differences lie in the groups' structures and methods for promoting change. Amnesty International is a mass-membership organization.
This includes non-Western governments claiming Amnesty is ideologically biased against them, such as those of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [5] the People's Republic of China, [6] Vietnam, [7] and Russia who have criticised Amnesty International for what they assert constituted one-sided reporting or a failure to treat threats to security as a mitigating factor.
Peter Benenson (born Peter James Henry Solomon; 31 July 1921 – 25 February 2005) was a British barrister, 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 to secure the release of political prisoners.
In August 2018, the human rights group Amnesty International accused NSO of helping Saudi Arabia spy on a member of the organization's staff. [54] In April 2019, NSO froze its deals with Saudi Arabia over a scandal alleging NSO software's role in tracking murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the months before his death. [55]
Amnesty International India was a country unit of the Amnesty International network, and was part of a global movement promoting and defending human rights and dignity. In September 2020, Amnesty halted its operations in the country after all bank accounts of the organization were frozen by Enforcement Directorate in connection with its money laundering probe into the finances of Amnesty ...
Kumi Naidoo (born 1965) is a South African human rights and climate justice activist.He was International Executive Director of Greenpeace International (from 2009 through 2015) [1] and Secretary General of Amnesty International (from 2018 through 2019 [2]).