Frasi di Peter Benenson

Peter Benenson – nato Peter James Henry Solomon – è stato un attivista, avvocato e filantropo britannico, fondatore di Amnesty International, una delle principali organizzazioni mondiali che si occupano di diritti umani. Wikipedia

✵ 31. Luglio 1921 – 25. Febbraio 2005

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“Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves.”

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Peter Benenson

Benenson (1961), Quoted in: Paul Gordon Lauren (2011) The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen, p. 251

“Forty years on, Amnesty International has secured many victories. Its files are full of letters from former prisoners of conscience or torture victims thanking the organisation for making a difference. Torture is now banned by international agreement. Every year more countries reject the death penalty. The world will soon have an International Criminal Court that will be able to ensure that those accused of the worst crimes in the world will face justice. The Court's very existence will deter some crimes.
But the challenges are still great. Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.”

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Peter Benenson

Origine: Amnesty International (2002) The Amnesty International Report. p. 22

“Open your newspaper any day of the week and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government … The newspaper reader feels a sickening sense of impotence. Yet if these feelings of disgust could be united into common action, something effective could be done.”

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Peter Benenson

Benenson (1961), in: The Observer, 28 May 1961.
Opening of article, which gave birth to Amnesty International.

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