Like Water On Stone
The Story of Amnesty International
Published on 25. April 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-14-028231-3 (ISBN)
Description
Founded forty years ago in London by a radical lawyer, Peter Berenson, Amnesty International is now the most influential and respected non-governmental organisations in the world. Its story reflects changing attitudes to political prisoners and human rights issues throughout the first and third worlds. Always controversial, Amnesty continues to question orthodoxies. Its struggle to free political prisoners goes on but it also recognises the need to fight for human rights in whatever formthey are denied or abused.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-028231-3 (9780140282313)
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Persons
Jonathan Power's weekly foreign affairs column is syndicated to over twenty newspapers throughout the world. He has published five previous books and most recently edited the official history of the United Nations.
Content
Prologue - the wheel turns in Nigeria; Guatemala - "only political killings"; Bokassa, the dead children and the lessons unlearnt; the Pinochet case; Amnesty's 40 years; Northern Ireland - Britain's dirty war; Amnesty's black mark - the Baader-Meinhof gang; Amnesty's success stories; China - from better to worse?; the USA -land of the free?; do we need to make war on behalf of human rights?.