Amnesty International began depositing these papers in the Centre in 1974. From January 2000 the additions (including some dated 1999) are arranged according to Amnesty International's own reference system. Documentation received before that date was arranged under the Centre's own system with the reference MSS.34. The later deposits have been differentiated as MSS.34B. A vast number of short press releases and other brief statements are deposited, as well as publications, leaflets etc. Amnesty have created codes for all possible categories but not all codes have, as yet, been used. This catalogue lists those countries and sections that we hold material for, with covering dates, but itemises only a sample of our holdings (usually the more substantial pieces). All are available to readers. Researchers wishing to order the complete set of releases concerning a country or section (including those not listed below) can do so by quoting 034B/4/ followed by the appropriate abbreviation (e.g. AFR for Africa) and the country or section number (e.g. 12 for Angola), followed by year as required.
NB: Amnesty's ref nos (and therefore the MSS.034 ref) have the year at the end AFTER the item no.
The catalogue for the earlier section (1974-1999 ) is not yet available online; a paper catalogue listing a sample of our holdings is available at the Centre.