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An international non-governmental organization that I will discuss is Amnesty International. Amnesty International (AI) is a non-governmental organization that was founded in 1961. In 1977, it was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize “for contributing to ‘securing the ground for freedom, for justice, and thereby also for peace in the world’. It’s recognition for the hard work and determination of Amnesty supporters across the world.” In 1978, it received the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights .Its mission is to” undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of these rights” (Amnesty, 2016). There are six main areas it deals in that is: “women's, children's, minorities' and indigenous rights”; “ending …show more content…

One of the recent work was by Amnesty International Australia which has been working to stop violence against women of Afghanistan for two year until April, 2015(Amnesty International Australia, 2016).Women and girls of Afghanistan were facing abuses and violence like beatings, rape, and being killed for false accusations like Farkhunda Malikzada, a 27 year old Afghan woman (CMI, 2016). The fight to stop violence against women led to the new Afghan government and the Australian Government’s foreign policy to prioritize the safety and advancement of women that is the issue was high on the list of their priorities. Another recent work by Amnesty was in 2009, were it wanted to protect the “Palestinian civilians” who were used by “Israeli’s Soldiers” as” human shields” in the “Israeli’s January offensive in Gaza called Operation Cast Lead “(Wikipedia, 2016).The third recent work has been in China. It has been trying to protect the human rights defenders in China who are arrested, harassed, house arrest, and imprisonment when they demonstrate against abuses and violence of human

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