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In June 1985, three months after the miners admitted defeat and ended their strike, Benn introduced the Miners ' Amnesty ( General Pardon ) Bill into the Commons, which would have extended an amnesty to all miners imprisoned during the strike.
Supporters of the Bill include ( but are not limited to ): Amnesty International, the Halifax Initiative, Make Poverty History, Mining Watch Canada, Africa Files, World Vision, The North-South Institute, Canadian Labour Congress, Development and Peace ( Canada ), Ecojustice Canada, Rights and Democracy, Social Justice Committee of Montreal, and Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability.
The Center also worked with Amnesty International developing a curriculum on conscience and human rights, and with the ACLU developing a Bill of Rights curriculum.
William F. " Bill " Schulz ( born 1949 ) was the Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, the U. S. division of Amnesty International, from March 1994 to 2006.
Bill 78, aimed at restoring access to education for peaceful students and at protecting businesses and citizens from violence by some student protesters, has been criticized by the United Nations, the Quebec Bar Association, Amnesty International, and others.

Amnesty and passed
Public opinion finally made itself felt and in 1845 an Act of General Amnesty was passed and Dorr was released after serving twelve months of his term.
The government passed an Amnesty Law for political crimes committed for and against the regime, relaxed restrictions on civil liberties, then held Presidential elections in 1984 with civilian candidates.
The practice was made mandatory by legislation passed in 1996 in response to the Oklahoma City bombing, and has come under criticism from organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, all of whom have released major studies of the subject, and the ACLU About 31, 000 non-citizens are held in immigration detention on any given day, including children, in over 200 detention centres, jails, and prisons nationwide.

Amnesty and on
In the 1980s, Médecins Sans Frontières, the international medical charity, supplied photographic and other documentary evidence of ritualized cannibal feasts among the participants in Liberia's internecine strife to representatives of Amnesty International who were on a fact-finding mission to the neighboring state of Guinea.
Independent local sources of political information on Eritrean domestic politics are scarce ; in September 2001 the government closed down all of the nation's privately owned print media, and outspoken critics of the government have been arrested and held without trial, according to domestic and international observers, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
Amnesty International said that the arrests and following raids on Greenpeace Japan office and homes of five of Greenpeace staff members were aimed at intimidating activists and non-governmental organizations.
* Amnesty International reports on the Maldives
The lack of access to the foreign media and the tradition of secrecy in North Korea means that there is little news about political conditions, but Amnesty International's 2003 report on North Korea says that " there were reports of severe repression of people involved in public and private religious activities, including imprisonment, torture and executions.
In August 1999 the U. S. affiliate of Amnesty International issued a report " Race, Rights & Brutality: Portraits of Abuse in the USA ," prompted by high-profile excessive-force cases involving local and state police in Chicago, New York and other cities, that called on federal officials to better document excessive-force cases and to ensure that the officers responsible are prosecuted.
In October 1999 the U. S. Affiliate of Amnesty International issued a report " Summary of Amnesty International's concerns on police abuse in Chicago " summarizing on-going concerns, including those relating to brutality and improper tactics or coercion during questioning ; the detention and interrogation of children in police custody ; allegations of excessive force against suspects ; the shooting of unarmed suspects ; the disproportionate number of victims who are members of ethnic or racial minorities ; the inadequacy of police complaints and disciplinary procedures and the lack of any external oversight of the complaints process.
Human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International, the World Organization Against Torture, and Association for the Prevention of Torture work actively to stop the use of torture throughout the world and publish reports on any activities they consider to be torture.
However, Amnesty International argues that since the end of the Second World War more than a dozen states have conducted investigations, commenced prosecutions and completed trials based on universal jurisdiction for the crimes or arrested people with a view to extraditing the persons to a state seeking to prosecute them.
After The Economist ran a critique of Amnesty International and human rights in general in its issue dated 24 March 2007, its letters page ran a vibrant reply from Amnesty, as well as several other letters in support of the organisation, including one from the head of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
Trade unionists initially arrested for protesting working conditions were released on the order of President Ben Ali and officially pardoned in October 2009 in a move that was welcomed by Amnesty International.
She has toured on behalf of many other causes, including Amnesty International's 1986 A Conspiracy of Hope tour and a guest spot on their subsequent Human Rights Now!
He received Amnesty International UK Press Awards in 1998 for his reports from Algeria and again in 2000 for his articles on the NATO air campaign against the FRY in 1999.
According to Amnesty International, the Chinese government banned Falun Gong on 22 July 1999 and launched a massive propaganda campaign.
In 2010 Amnesty International " strongly condemned a worrying attack on a Rwandan opposition group " in the lead-up to presidential elections, citing the case of Victoire Ingasbire, president of the FDU-Inkingi ( United Democratic Forces ) and her aide Joseph Ntawangundi, attacked in February 2010 while collecting party registration documents from a government building in Kigali.
It is available for download on the Amnesty website, while the album was released on CD in 2006.
International bodies such as the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which monitors compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and Amnesty International have argued that many of the guarantees for individual rights contained in the Japanese constitution have not been effective in practice.
Their deaths sparked reactions from the international human rights group Amnesty International, which called on the Saudi authorities to abolish the death sentence.
In 1997, an announcement of Amnesty International's forthcoming campaign and briefing for the UN Commission on Human Rights included this quote: " The right to conscientious objection to military service is not a marginal concern outside the mainstream of international human rights protection and promotion.
In September 1981, Sting made his first live solo appearance, performing on all four nights of the fourth Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman's Other Ball at the invitation of producer Martin Lewis.
The day after the final concert, he was interviewed on NBC's Today Show about the origins of his support for Amnesty International and he stated: " I've been a member of Amnesty and a support member for five years, due to an entertainment event called The Secret Policeman's Ball and before that I did not know about Amnesty, I did not know about its work, I did not know about torture in the world.

Amnesty and 19
* Amnesty International Festival Of Youth ( Milton Keynes Bowl, 18 – 19 June 1988 )
* Russian Federation: Concerns about scientists, journalists and lawyers by Amnesty International, 19 January 2007
Peter Pack, the chairman of Amnesty's international executive committee, said on 19 February 2011,The payments to outgoing secretary general Irene Khan shown in the accounts of AI ( Amnesty International ) Ltd for the year ending March 31st 2010 include payments made as part of a confidential agreement between AI Ltd and Irene Khan .” and that “ It is a term of this agreement that no further comment on it will be made by either party .” On 21 February Pack issued a further statement, in which he said that the payment was a “ unique situation ” that was “ in the best interest of Amnesty ’ s work ” and that there would be no repetition of it.

Amnesty and December
His Amnesty Proclamation of December 8, 1863, offered pardons to those who had not held a Confederate civil office, had not mistreated Union prisoners, and would sign an oath of allegiance.
In December 1990 Amnesty International issued a report " Allegations of Police Torture in Chicago, Illinois " calling for a full inquiry into allegations that Area 2 Chicago Police tortured criminal suspects between 1972 and 1984.
Whilst the album is yet to materialise, on 9 December 2009, the band released the song " Chase the Tear " for Human Rights Day to raise money for Amnesty International UK.
In April, 2012, two months before the verdict in the trial, Bouterse's party member Andre Misiekaba said, during a debate in the Surinamese parliament, that: " The December Murders trial is a political trial which has the purpose to eliminate Bouterse from the political arena and therefore the Amnesty Act is needed ".
On December 10, 2005, the Peas cover of the John Lennon classic " Power to the People ", which was mostly recorded on the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, was released by Amnesty International as part of the Make Some Noise campaign to celebrate human rights.
On December 16, 1976, the DOI-Codi-SP invades a house on the street Pius XI, São Paulo, killing at local orchard and Angelo Pedro Arroyo, kills John the Baptist Drumond torture prisoners and keeps up Amnesty Wladimir Pomar ( son of Pedro ), Aldo Arantes, Haroldo Lima, Elza Moneratt ( both graduates of the AP ), episode known as the Massacre and Slaughter of Lapa.
She was the seventh Secretary General of Amnesty International until her resignation on 31 December 2009.
in the UK revealed that Khan had received a payment of UK £ 533, 103 from Amnesty International following her resignation from the organisation on 31 December 2009, a fact discovered in Amnesty's records for the 2009 – 2010 financial year.
On 23 December 2010 Amnesty International announced that it was mobilizing an online petition spearheaded by Paul Haggis and Nazanin Boniadi and signed by Sean Penn, Martin Scorsese, Harvey Weinstein and others to protest the imprisonment of Panahi.
Amnesty International reports that, " Some 406 foreign women were assisted by the IOM in Kosovo between December 2000 and December 2003.
Other remarkable pieces are The Apotheosis of Napoleon I, The Amnesty, Le Duc d ' Orleans, Bertholet, The Universal Exposition, The Second of December, 1851, The Establishment of the Republic, The Battle of Inkermann, and Napoleon's Tomb at the Invalides.

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