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Be Good
Title: Be Good
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 417 | Pages: 1.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Be Good
In 1961, London lawyer Peter Benenson read about a group of students in Portugal who were arrested and jailed for raising a toast to freedom in a public restaurant. This incident prompted him to launch a one-year campaign called "Appeal for Amnesty 1961" in the London Observer.
The "Appeal for Amnesty" called for the release of all people imprisoned because of peaceful expression of their beliefs, politics, race, religion, colour, or national origin. Benenson called these people, "…showed first 75 words of 417 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 417 total…human rights.
Amnesty International campaigns for the immediate and unconditional release of all 'prisoners of conscience' - people imprisoned for the peaceful expression of their political beliefs, or because of their sex, ethnic origin, language, sexuality or religion.
Ultimately, all Amnesty International's research and campaigning aims to affect the lives of individuals. Amnesty International member’s campaign for all kinds of victims, under all kinds of governments, everywhere in the world,
Bibliography: www.amnesty.org.au
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