BETTER TO LIGHT A CANDLE THAN CURSE THE DARKNESS - campaigning for human rights with Amnesty International

Amnesty International is well-known, a global movement which campaigns for a world where everyone enjoys full human rights.  It is funded by its members & by a wide range of invdividuals who care about freedom & rights for all people.  This allows it to be independent of political or religious ideology & all economic interests.  For Amnesty, no government is beyond scrutiny & no situation beyond hope. 

The organisation  has seen many changes for the better since it was set up in the UK in 1961 - torturers have become international outlaws, most countries have abolished the death penalty & seemingly untouchable dictators have been made to answer for their crimes.  But recent events have made it only too clear that those victories which have been won need to be defended, whilst the fight continues against appalling breaches of human rights which have never ceased. Amnesty International oversees the state…