I remain deeply committed to Amnesty's original mandate: to work for freedom for prisoners of conscience, an end to torture and the death penalty, and fair trials for all. Amnesty International has ...

On May 28, 1998, Volkswagen was established under Adolf Hitler’s regime in Germany to create a people’s car or Volkswagen. Meanwhile, Amnesty International was also founded on this day in 1961 by ...

In 1961, Peter Benenson read a newspaper report about two Portuguese students who had been arrested and jailed for drinking a toast to liberty in a cafe in Lisbon. Outraged, he decided to look at ways ...

On May 28, 1961, the British newspaper The London Observer publishes British lawyer Peter Benenson’s article “The Forgotten Prisoners” on its front page, launching the Appeal for Amnesty ...

British lawyer Peter Benenson established Amnesty International in 1961 in London. The group advocates for human rights globally, including people facing strict restrictions on free speech. Recently, ...

Amnesty’s founder, Peter Benenson, was a Jew whose conversion to Catholicism led him to conclude that the path to sanctity was through abandoning national identity.

Institutions such as the United Nations, international courts and nongovernmental agencies such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch are assumed to be disinterested, moral and just. In fact, the very ...

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28th May, 1961 Amnesty International was founded by London lawyer Peter Benenson. Berenson read about the arrest of a group of students in Portugal before launching a one-year campaign to free them, ...

- Peter Benenson Amnesty International was founded in 1961 on the idea that together ordinary people can change the world. Today Amnesty is a worldwide movement for human rights, calling on the ...

CO-FOUNDER OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – 1961 UNITED NATIONS COMMISSIONER FOR NAMIBIA – 1973 AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE – 1974 THE LEVIN PEACE PRIZE – 1977 THE AMERICAN MEDAL FOR JUSTICE – 1978 Seán ...