Amnesty International USA

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Amnesty International USA
Founded1966 (1966)
TypeNon-profit
Larry Cox
Rick Halperin
Websitewww.amnestyusa.org

Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is an American non-profit

non-governmental organization that is part of the worldwide Amnesty International
organization.

Amnesty International is an organization of more than 7 million supporters, activists and volunteers in over 150 countries,[1] with complete independence from government, corporate or national interests. Amnesty International works to protect human rights worldwide. Its vision is one of a world in which every person - regardless of race, religion, gender, or ethnicity - enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.

Since its foundation in 1966,

nonpartisan organization has worked to free prisoners of conscience, oppose torture, and fight other human rights violations around the world. It seeks to promote human rights in the United States
through lobbying and education, and describes itself as working for full human rights for everyone.

Campaigns

Amnesty International USA's Security with Human Rights campaigns strongly against

human rights violations.[3]

Amnesty International USA publicly objected to the use of the

Donald H. Rumsfeld
's explanation for Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp's existence was because of its optimal setting for interrogation and prosecution of extraordinarily dangerous persons for war crimes was in from Amnesty's view a thinly veiled excuse for allowing the use of torture. Amnesty International USA holds that all detainees should be either given a fair trial in federal court or be released.

In Amnesty International USA's campaign for Individuals at Risk (IAR), protections for anyone who is threatened of having their human rights violated because of who they are or what they believe is the mission.[4] To do this, IAR attempts to lobby both from the grassroots and State level by facilitating response, exposure and relevance especially in priority cases like the one of Shaker Aamer, a Guantanamo Bay detainee who has been cleared multiple times for release to the United Kingdom. As of February 2015, Aamer has been unlawfully detained for over 13 years and Amnesty International USA released Shaker Aamer's case of their website with the option to “take action” by sending a direct message to President Barack Obama calling for Shaker to be either charged and tried or immediately released to United Kingdom.[5]

The organization is currently active in campaigns to stop violence against women as part of an international campaign to see full human rights for everyone. My Body, My Rights! is a global campaign for the right to make decisions about a person's own "health, body, sexual life, and identity without fear of coercion or criminalization. Seek and receive information about sexuality and reproduction and access related health services and

heterosexual women about their bodies and human rights but persons of every sexual orientation and gender identity.[6]

AIUSA strongly opposes the use of the

William F. Buckley resigned in January 1978 in protest over the organization's adoption of this stance on this issue.[7]

The

Darfur conflict in Sudan is one of Amnesty International's top priorities, as a result of the large scale human rights abuses occurring there. Amnesty has called for the introduction of a United Nations peacekeeping
force to prevent conflict and stop further unnecessary suffering.

Organizational structure

Larry Cox at an AIUSA protest in Miami

Executive Directors

Support

Amnesty International is the USA's largest human rights group by membership, with over 350,000 members.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Who we are". Amnesty International. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Biographical Note". Archive: Amnesty International of the USA, Inc. 1966-2003. Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections (Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research). Archived from the original on 2010-06-27. Retrieved 2008-04-11.
  3. ^ "National Security & Human Rights". Amnesty International USA. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
  4. ^ "Individuals At Risk". Amnesty International USA. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
  5. ^ "Cases". Amnesty International USA. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
  6. ^ "Gender, Sexuality, & Identity". Amnesty International USA. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
  7. ^ Montgomery, Bruce P. (Spring 1995). "Archiving Human Rights: The Records of Amnesty International USA". Archivaria (39).
  8. ^ Strom, Stephanie (January 25, 2006). "New Leader for Amnesty International USA". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
  9. ^ "Executive Director of AIUSA". AIUSA. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  10. ^ "Executive Director of Amnesty International USA". Amnesty International. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  11. ^ "Executive Team". Amnesty International. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  12. ^ "Celebrating Paul O'Brien's Appointment As New Executive Director and a New Chapter for the Human Rights Organization in the United States". Amnesty International USA. Retrieved 2024-02-24.

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