Amnesty International
Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty and AI) is a "non-governmental organisation" stated to be focused on human rights, with millions of members and supporters around the world. It focuses in particular on "prisoners of conscience", who are persons imprisoned or prevented from expressing their opinions in violation of freedom of expression. Despite this, Amnesty does not support the right of freedom of expression of those accused of "Holocaust denial" or "hate speech", in effect only supporting politically correct freedom of expression.
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History
Amnesty International was founded in London in 1961 by the lawyer Peter Benenson, who was a Jew who had converted to Catholicism. The Jewish Louis Blom-Cooper was also involved in the foundation.
The organization has a liberal/leftist outlook and supports ending the death penalty, decriminalizing abortion, minorities' and indigenous rights, protecting LGBT rights, social and cultural rights for marginalised communities, and the rights of refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers.
Its coverage of different countries has been criticized as biased compared to actual human rights abuses. In 2019, an independent report found what it called a "toxic culture" of workplace bullying, as well as numerous evidences of bullying, harassment, sexism and racism. The report found that:
- "39 per cent of Amnesty International staff reported that they developed mental or physical health issues as the direct result of working at Amnesty".
Another criticism is excessive pay for management. In 2019, a budgetary crisis caused an announcement that the organization's headquarters would cut almost 100 jobs as a part of urgent restructuring. Unite the Union, the UK's biggest trade union, said the redundancies were a direct result of "overspending by the organisation’s senior leadership team" and had occurred "despite an increase in income".
Opposition to Freedom of Speech
Amnesty International has often stated that the so called "hate speech" (by which they intend any criticism of races other than white, homosexuals and so on) should be persecuted. In fact "hate speech" is what is now seen by liberals as a form of opposition to their politics of mass immigration. Amnesty International seems so to support the mainstream policy of don't let them speak against political opposition.
Communist terror
Amnesty International, as a rule, did not protest against communist terror, and did not defend its victims, except the very few cases, when communist terror was applied to Jews. The most notorious case in this regard was in China, where it refused to list prisoners of conscience under the totalitarian communist regime, but regularly tried to undermine conservative South American countries.
Example of Hungary
In Hungary, AI criticizes the Hungarian constitution, because it
- Guarantees protection of human life from the time of conception
- Marriage is defined as a life-long connection between a man and a woman
- Introduces real life long incarceration
- Does not forbid disadvantegous discrimination according to sexual orientation
AI thinks, these points hurt human rights norm in Europe and world wide. AI clearly contradicts to Christian values and tries to destroy human culture, conscience and moral with this activity.
Positive contributions
AI has stated that the United States drone strikes are war crimes.
- "Amnesty International has serious concerns that this attack violated the prohibition of the arbitrary deprivation of life and may constitute war crimes or extrajudicial executions."[1]
