About Amnesty thousands of people are in prison because of their beliefs. Many are held without trial. Torture is widespread.
Executions are common-place.
Still others have been killed without any pretense of legality. In 1977, Amnesty won the Nobel Peace Prize for its human rights work. Today, Amnesty continues to work on behalf of thousands of human rights abuse victims in countries around the world. Recognizing that human rights are indivisible and interdependent, AI works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards, through education programs and campaigning for ratification of human rights treaties. Since 1961 Amnesty International has worked on behalf of more than 43,000 prisoner cases, of which 40,000 are now closed.