Amnesty Head Urges More Pressure on Human Rights HUMAN RIGHTS
Baldauf, Scott, The Christian Science Monitor
IAN MARTIN, secretary-general of Amnesty International, met with Monitor staff on March 23, a day before the release of a report on human rights violations in India. He spoke of Amnesty's work around the world.
What do you see as your mission and what is it you do that changes the situation?
Any ordinary person can do something that can affect the human rights conduct of governments. {When it was first proposed,} that seemed like a pretty crazy idea. But over the years, that's exactly what has happened.
In the last five or six years access has opened up to a lot of places that were closed off to us before, obviously, but it's still not all the world. Some …
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Article title: Amnesty Head Urges More Pressure on Human Rights HUMAN RIGHTS.
Contributors: Baldauf, Scott - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: April 2, 1992.
Page number: 5.
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