Amnesty International and womens rights : feminist strategies leadership commitment and internal resistances Amnesty Internationals (AI) focus on civil and political rights has marked their work with a gender bias from the outset. In the first comprehensive look at AIs work on womens rights Miriam Ganzfried illustrates the development of their activities regarding womens rights issues over twenty years. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented access to archive material from the Swiss and the German AI sections she shows how women activists strategized to make AI increase its work on womens rights. Additionally the book demonstrates that despite the leaderships commitment to the Stop Violence Against Women campaign internal resistance hampered the integration of womens rights into the organizations overall work