AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FICHE

These are four folders containing fiche.

Country Dossiers:

• File A1 - 1975-1980. Cumulative index on fiche, a printed catalogue giving publications, annual report entry, newsletter entries, date and fiche number in alphabetical order of country and the country dossier fiches.
• File A2 - 1981-1984. Printed catalogue giving an annual report entry, newsletter entries, general Amnesty International material and background papers, date and fiche number in alphabetical order of country and the country dossier fiches.
• File B1 - 1962-1980. Printed catalogue giving an entry for the newsletter, annual reports, briefing papers, reports on countries in alphabetical order of continent, reports on topics, general publications, date and fiche number and the publication fiches.
• File B2 - 1981-1984. Printed catalogue giving an entry for the newsletter, annual reports, briefing papers, reports on countries in alphabetical order of continent, reports on topics, general publications, date and fiche number and the publication fiches.

Amnesty International was formed in 1961 by London lawyer Peter Benenson. Its mandate is to promote CHquot;general awareness of human rights' and to oppose 'specific abuses of human rights'.

Benson launched a one year campaign called 'appeal for amnesty', prompted by the arrest of a group of students for raising a toast to freedom in a public restaurant. His appeal for amnesty called for the release of all people imprisoned because of their beliefs, politics, race, religion, colour or national origin. The campaign grew quickly and by the end of 1961 Amnesty International had been founded.

The organisation's earliest activity was letter writing on behalf of prisoners of conscience. This involved investigating a prisoners case to establish that they were a prisoner of conscience and writing letters to officials in that prisoners country to ask for their release.

During the late 1960's additional efforts were put into issue campaigns, publicity, education and fundraising. It was also at this time that the organisation decided that people should only work on cases in countries other than their own. In 1977 Amnesty International was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its work.

The organisation now has more than 1 million members and supporters in

over 160 countries and territories. There are nationally organised sections in more than 50 countries, 34 of them in areas outside Western Europe and North America, and more than 5,000 local groups (in addition to many thousands of school, university and professional groups). The UK Section of Amnesty International has more than 155,000 members. Its main office is in London.

Fiche are arranged in alphabetical order in folders.

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