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There is clear evidence that the international sale of weapons or the training of military and police can contribute to human rights abuses.
All companies have a direct responsibility to protect human rights. Amnesty International believes that the business community also has a wider responsibility — moral and legal — to use its influence to promote respect for human rights.
As human beings, children are entitled to all the rights guaranteed by
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but children also need special
protection and care.
In Sierra Leone, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the diamond
trade has financed wars and atrocities. New reports suggest that the al Queda
terrorist network has also profited from this trade.
The conflict in Darfur has led to some of the worst human rights abuses imaginable, including systematic and wide-scale murder, rape, torture, abduction and displacement.
The death penalty violates international human rights law. While most of the world has rejected the death penalty, the United States and a few other countries account for the majority of executions.
Economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) relate to the conditions necessary to meet basic human needs such as food, shelter, education, health care, and gainful employment. Together with civil and political rights, they form a holistic vision of human dignity in which all human rights are interdependent and indivisible.
Through its work on human rights education, Amnesty International is committed to raising awareness of the basic rights and responsibilities that each individual possesses and to building a culture of respect for human rights.
Globalization has put economic imperatives on a collision course with the earth's eco-systems and its people. Those who speak out in defense of the environment are often silenced. Many face imprisonment. Others are harassed, arrested, tortured, raped, even executed.
The Health and Human Rights Network mobilizes AIUSA members and allies to work on the health and human rights-related aspects of Amnesty's projects, to educate their communities about health and human rights, and to defend health professionals and other human rights activists who are targeted for defending the right to health.
A human rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS starts from the premise that human rights abuses contribute to the spread of HIV and undermine attempts to protect people from becoming infected, and once infected, from receiving needed treatment and care.