Amnesty International: Champions of Human Rights

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A Non Governmental Organization that works for human rights issues that interested me is, Amnesty International. I have been hearing many good things about this organization, so I decided to find out for myself what Amnesty International really does for human rights. My mind was blown away at how much they do to further human rights after my research. It is an organization that fights for civilians caught in the crossfire between warring groups, fights for a total ban on torture, and fights against any form of discrimination. First of all, let me start off with what Amnesty International is, and what their mission is. Amnesty International according to it 's website is a non-governmental organization that, "investigate and expose the …show more content…

In the vast majority of wars, civilians are unfortunately caught in the crossfire. What Amnesty International does, according to their website, is to help bring to justice people that go after innocent civilians which breaks the International Human Law (IHL). Amnesty International was able to bring awareness to the human rights violations that was going on in Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and in Rwanda. In 2012, Amnesty International assisted to bring Thomas Lubanga, the leader of an armed group in Congo to justice, on charges of having children as soldiers in his army (iccnow.org). This work was necessary to show people that if there is a war, it doesn 't indicate that human right 's come to a stop. There will still be human right 's when there is a war, and if someone infringes on that law, they will be brought to justice for committing those …show more content…

Amnesty International helps develop programs that will assist people to stop institutionalized discrimination against a group of people. A great of example of how Amnesty helped stop discrimination against women in Morroco, according to their website, is when they assuaged the Moroccan parliament to change it 's rape law in 2014. This meant rapists cannot escape jail, by forcibly marrying the person they raped (aljazeera.com). These steps to prevent discrimination, needs to be done so that we have a fair world, where no one is dicriminated against for who they are or what they believe

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