Children and adults both suffer when nations go to war. When nations wage war, they legalize the use of deadly force. But some nations authorize the use of deadly force in times of peace against prisoners. Although most Western countries have renounced this practice, the United States has not. As the United States maintains and extends the death penalty , it behooves us to know who is being executed in our name and why.
Political protesters are often just normal people who seek to be treated with basic human dignity.
Yet, regimes the world over have jailed the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Ghandi, Lech Walesa, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Nelson Mandela. Countless others met their deaths in the custody of state authorities. In addition to attempting to assure that all prisoners, whatever their political perspective, are protected from state terror, Amnesty International works to secure prisoners rights and to document and protest on-going larger scale human rights abuses. The world is becoming more interconnected, and many of the challenges we face reflect this greater interconnection. Volunteers are sought for many tasks, including web-site development, maintenance, marketing, and more.