AmnestyInternational

Amnesty International is an international (surprise! :-) group that works for human rights? and fair trials for prisoners, etc...

Mission -- from the website

"Founded in London in 1961, Amnesty International is a Nobel Prize?-winning grassroots activist organization with over one million? members worldwide. Amnesty International is dedicated to freeing prisoners of conscience, gaining fair trials? for political prisoners?, ending torture?, political killings? and "disappearances," and abolishing the death penalty? throughout the world." [1]

Website

Local Dartmouth site --
www.aiusa.org/ -- Site for the US

Related Links

COSO, Free Tibet, Human Rights Violations?, Making the World A Better Place?
Human Rights Web?, Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Office of Instituational Diversity and Equity

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tucker/socialconcerns/amnesty.html --- notes from Tucker Foundation

Refs

[1] -- http://www.amnestyusa.org/about/

RobinsonTryon - 15 Apr 2003