MY NGO: Amnesty International

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Amnesty International is a non-governmental organisation focused on human rights with over 3 million members and supporters around the world. The objective of the organisation is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."

There are six key areas which Amnesty deals with:

• Women's, children's, minorities' and indigenous rights.
• Abolition of the death penalty
• Rights of refugees.
• Rights of prisioners of conscience.
• Protection of human dignity.
  
• Ending torture.
  

"These personal and unaffiliated donations allow AI to maintain full independence from any and all governments, political ideologies, economic interests or religions. We neither seek nor accept any funds for human rights research from governments or political parties and we accept support only from businesses that have been carefully vetted. By way of ethical fundraising leading to donations from individuals, we are able to stand firm and unwavering in our defence of universal and indivisible human rights."

“It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

USA: Close Guantánamo and end human rights hypocrisy

Impunity for crimes under international law such as torture and enforced disappearance committed against detainees, including at Guantánamo, is a festering injustice that leaves the USA in serious violation of its international obligations,” said Erika Guevara Rosas.

• On 22 January 2009, President Obama ordered the closure of Guantánamo within a year.
  

• More than 150 men are still held in the US detention centre in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
  

• Of the almost 800 detainees who have been held there, less than one per cent have been convicted by military commission.
  

• More than 70 detainees – the majority of them Yemenis – have been “approved for transfer” but are still detained.PATXIXA GUAPO <3