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Amnesty International USA: Take Action for Human Rights!
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About Amnesty International
Founded in London in 1961, Amnesty International is a Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with over 1.8 million members worldwide. Amnesty International undertakes 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. Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is the U.S. Section of Amnesty International.
In May 1961, the late Peter Benenson (1921 - 2005) published an article, "The Forgotten Prisoners," in the London Observer after reading a brief article about two Portuguese students who had been arrested for making a toast to freedom in a Lisbon bar. Thousands of people responded to Benenson's article, and soon after Amnesty International was founded. See also, "A Word from Peter Benenson on Amnesty International's 40th Anniversary." ยป
The late Ginetta Sagan, was a founder of Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) and a former Honorary Chairperson of the AIUSA Board. For more than 50 years, she was a champion and fighter for human rights for the interests of all people, especially women and children. Every year, AIUSA honors Ginetta Sagan through the Ginetta Sagan Award.
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