About Amnesty
Amnesty International works to achieve human rights for everyone by promoting general awareness of human rights, and by opposing specific abuses of human rights.
For more details, please read Amnesty’s Vision and Mission. Amnesty’s approach to campaigning for human rights works: you can read about some of the success stories arising from the work of AI and its members worldwide. The organisation has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1977), and the United Nations Human Rights Prize (1978). But the greatest testament to the work of Amnesty comes from voices like this union leader from the Dominican Republic:
“I was being kept naked in an underground cell. When the first 200 letters came, the guards gave me back my clothes. The next 200 letters came and the prison officers came to see me. When the next pile of letters arrived, the director got in touch with his superior. The letters kept coming, 3,000 of them, and the President called me to his office. He showed me an enormous box of letters he had received, and said: How is it that a trade union leader like you has so many friends all over the world?”
Replying is good.