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Amnesty International Ethics

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Amnesty International is a non profit organization that help in the fighting of human rights all around the globe, this organization was founded by Peter Benenson in United kingdom 1961. International has close to about 7 million members all around the world, and their main objective is to ensure that human rights are never violated and also to help get justice to those whose right has been tempered with. And also they help them prevent violation of any form of films right both locally and internationally.

The motto of Amnesty International states that “ It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” And there vision is of a world in which every person …show more content…

The Amnesty international has done greatly in contributing globally where ever there is need that's concern human rights, this organization with head quarters in London, and branches in almost about 150 countries has really done well for the benefit of human right all around globe.

Based on research one of the recent work done by Amnesty International Organization is helping out a group of women from the Niger Delta area of Nigeria to get there rightful compensation from Shell Company.
The civil case has been brought by Esther Kiobel, the widow of Dr Barinem Kiobel, and three other women. Esther Kiobel has pursued Shell for 20 years over the death of her husband. He was hanged in 1995 along with the writer and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, and seven other men, collectively known as the Ogoni Nine. At the time the executions sparked a global …show more content…

Amnesty International supported Esther’s legal team to bring the case to the Netherlands.

The execution of the Ogoni nine as its called in the 1990s has cause so much bitterness and anger in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, and the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), led by Ken Saro-Wiwa was clearly a moment for a right to live safely in own land,This brutal campaign was mainly to denounce the giant oil company Shell. Ogoni people said shell is no longer welcome in there place because disasters caused by Shell in the environment, This campaigns was carried out in other for the government to stop Shell company from killing their people with the oil pollution.
Instead the Oil Company Shell complained and persuaded the government to see MOSOP as a problem and then encouraged the government to stop Ken Saro Wiwa and MOSOP and knowing fulling well this could led to a serious crime against human right

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