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During the mid-to-late-1980s, Amnesty organized two major musical events took place to increase awareness of Amnesty and of human rights. The 1986 Conspiracy of Hope tour, which played five concerts in the US, and culminated in a daylong show, featuring some thirty-odd acts at Giants Stadium, and the 1988 Human Rights Now! world tour.
Amnesty (from Ancient Greek ἀμνηστία (amnēstía) 'forgetfulness, passing over') is defined as "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of people who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted."
Some of the events of the 1970s, which gave global prominence to the human movements issue, included the abuses of Chilean Augusto Pinochet's and American Richard Nixon's administrations; the signing of the Helsinki Accords (1975) between the West and the USSR; the Soweto riots in South Africa; the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Amnesty ...
Image title: 29/04/2010; Author: Scanned for Parliamentry Council Office: Short title: 46 VICT 1882 No 70 Amnesty; Date and time of digitizing: 03:49, 29 April 2010
The events of the Mizo uprising and insurgency led to the creation of a literary genre unique to Mizoram known as Rambuai. Rambuai translated means 'troubled land'. [ 73 ] The writings explore several perspectives from the artocoties of the Indian army, the underground movement and the violence and trauma of the period.
Soviet authorities in Germany passed their own version of a law already adopted on the American side by declaring an amnesty for all Nazis except important party officials. [16] Minister of Overseas France Marius Moutet announced that French India would become an establishment of five free cities within the French Union. [17]
Some notions of righteousness present in ancient law and religion are sometimes retrospectively included under the term "human rights". While Enlightenment philosophers suggest a secular social contract between the rulers and the ruled, ancient traditions derived similar conclusions from notions of divine law, and, in Hellenistic philosophy, natural law.
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