Our goal is to promote Human Rights awareness on campus, as well as engage in various activism and fundraising projects. Regular activities include letter writing campaigns, an annual student conference, and sponsorship of an escapee of female genital mutilation.
Amnesty International [AI] is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
In pursuit of this vision, AI’s mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
AI is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion. It does not support or oppose any government or political system, nor does it support or oppose the views of the victims whose rights it seeks to protect. It is concerned solely with the impartial protection of human rights.
AI has a varied network of members and supporters around the world. At the latest count, there were more than 1.8 million members, supporters and subscribers in over 150 countries and territories in every region of the world. Although they come from many different backgrounds and have widely different political and religious beliefs, they are united by a determination to work for a world where everyone enjoys human rights. AI is a democratic, self-governing movement. Major policy decisions are taken by an International Council made up of representatives from all national sections
. AI’s national sections and local volunteer groups are primarily responsible for funding the movement. No funds are sought or accepted from governments for AI’s work investigating and campaigning against human rights violations. What does Amnesty International do? Amnesty International works independently and impartially to promote respect for all the human rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Amnesty International believes that human rights are interdependent and indivisible all human rights should be enjoyed by all people at all times, and no one set of rights can be enjoyed at the expense of other rights. It concentrates on ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination.
Historically, the main focus of Amnesty International`s campaigning has been: –to free all prisoners of conscience –to ensure a prompt and fair trial for all political prisoners –to abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment –to end extrajudicial executions and disappearances” –to fight impunity by working to ensure perpetrators of such abuses are brought to justice in accordance with international standards Over the years Amnesty International has expanded this mandate to encompass human rights abuses committed by non governmental bodies and private individuals [non state actors].
It opposes abuses by armed political groups [in control of territory or operating in opposition to governments]