Amnesty International

Question 1

Challenges (3)

Answer 1

What counts as a prisoner of conscience?
Apolitcal?
Non violence

Question 2

Structure

Answer 2

3s network (first world, second world, third world)

Question 3

What was Amnesty’s impartiality policy based on? (2)

Answer 3

Balancing criticism between regimes
WOOC rule

Question 4

Miedema

Answer 4

Argues that Amnesty’s impartiality issue was challenged during Cold War, esp in 1970s detente

Question 5

Amnesty contradictions (Miedema)

Answer 5

Commitment to impartiality often meant it wasn’t dealing with human rights issues in the most effective way
Raises questions about what is the most important to them

Question 6

Issue with WOOC

Answer 6

Served to marginalize local activists with firsthand knowledge of their countries’ human rights situations
Imbalance between Western activists and activists in more oppressive regimes

Question 7

Amnesty founder

Answer 7

Peter Benenson

Question 8

Origin story

Answer 8

Benenson read a story in the Telegraph about two Portuguese students imprisoned for toasting

Question 9

Who questioned Amnesty’s origin story?

Answer 9

Tom Buchanan