Peace
Amnesty International – History
History
Amnesty International was founded in 1961 by Peter Benenson, a British lawyer. It was originally his intention to launch an appeal in Britain with the aim of obtaining an amnesty for prisoners of conscience all over the world. The committee working for this cause soon found that a detailed documentation of this category of prisoners…
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Mairead Corrigan – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Henry Kissinger – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Andrei Sakharov – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
English Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1975 (Translation) Peace, Progress, Human Rights Honored members of the Nobel Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen. Peace, progress, human rights – these three goals are insolubly linked to one another: it is impossible to achieve one of these goals if the other two are ignored. This is the dominant idea that…
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