Founded in 1961, Amnesty International is a Nobel Prize
winning grassroots activist organization with over
one-million members world wide.

Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is the U.S. Section of this international human rights movement. Amnesty International works to:

• Free all prisoners of conscience detained anywhere for their beliefs or because of their ethnic origin, sex, colour, sexual orientation, or language -- who have not used or advocated violence
• Ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners
• Abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners
• End extrajudicial executions and "disappearances."

Activities range from public demonstrations to letter-writing, from human rights education to fundraising concerts, from individual appeals on a particular case to global campaigns on a particular issue.