Like Water on Stone
Subtitle: The Story of Amnesty International
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: May 17, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781555534875
Subjects: Civil rights & citizenship; Crime & criminology; Human rights; International institutions; Political prisoners; International Relations - General; International Organizations; Political And Civil Rights; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Sociology; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Nonprofit Organizations & Charities; Law / General; History; Criminology; International; Amnesty International
Description: "Starting with the personal story of his long-time friendship with one of Amnesty's best-known adopted political prisoners, Olusegun Obasanjo, now the democratically elected president of Nigeria, Jonathan Power looks at Amnesty's work worldwide, including Guatemala, where their personnel risked their own lives to help those facing the death squads, and in the Central African Republic, where they exposed the horrific massacre of defenceless children.

Other chapters examine the attempt to bring General Pinochet to justice, Britain's dirty war in Northern Ireland and one of the black marks in Amnesty's own history, their mistaken support of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Finally, Power focuses on the USA and its failure to address its own widespread human rights violations.".

"Forty years on, Amnesty continues to question orthodoxies - even liberal ones. It has also radically reassessed its objectives. The struggle to free political prisoners goes on, but Amnesty also recognizes the need to fight for human rights in whatever form they are denied or abused. Its successes are often no more dramatic than the constant dripping of water on stone.

But as Jonathan Power asserts, 'Amnesty may not yet have changed the world, but it has not left it as it found it either'."--BOOK JACKET.