Amnesty International

was founded in 1961 by people who – shaken by the horrors of the 20th century – wanted to contribute to the political and social implementation of the principle of human dignity postulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Impartial. Independent. This initiative of a few became the world’s largest human rights organisation, which campaigns for the guarantee of human rights throughout the world.

Amnesty International

is committed to fighting torture, the death penalty and enforced disappearances, campaigns for the release of non-violent political prisoners, for refugees and asylum seekers and for the protection of women and girls from violence and oppression.

Amnesty monitors politically motivated criminal prosecutions and demands fair and speedy trials. Amnesty now also focuses on and promotes economic, social and cultural human rights. Human rights education programmes are being developed.

Amnesty International

sends so-called researchers to the respective countries to establish the facts about human rights violations. They talk to victims, lawyers, relatives and representatives of non-governmental organisations. The information obtained is compared with other available facts and checked by Amnesty’s International Secretariat before it is documented and published. These reports form the basis for the work of more than 10 million members and supporters in over 150 countries around the world, who address human rights violations against governments and advocate the demands that Amnesty derives from them. The members also take these concerns to the public with a variety of campaigns and campaign for support in their respective social environment.

Amnesty International Germany

has more than 150,000 people who regularly support Amnesty’s work and around 70 full-time employees. There are almost 600 Amnesty groups working on a voluntary basis, including school students, university groups and coordination groups that coordinate the work on individual countries or topics in Germany.

Website: www.amnesty.de