Making Amnesty international

Researching the making of an international activist organisation: Amnesty from the perspective of the Third World. Funded by @mscactions @michelle_torino 🍉

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And the conditions and circumstances that meant that this work remained in the background also provide important clues as to how rights were able to be divided up and siloed.

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Amnesty worked a lot during the 1980s with trade unions to emphasise that the right to free association and to take industrial action were intimately connected to economic rights. Trade union Amnesty groups also campaigned on behalf of imprisoned unionists...

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This work became nowhere near as high profile as its work on torture, but it provides a glimpse into the way that connections between civil and political, and economic and social rights were articulated and acted upon...

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Congrats @nickjohnferns I've started using it already!

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Read here a little snippet of the project's research, on Mongo Beti's encounter with Amnesty during the years of the 'human rights breakthrough'

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The exact argument I make in an article I just finished writing!

[Janey Starling @janeyjstarling]

What people think activism is
vs
What a lot of activism actually is

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Maybe of interest to @StevenLBJensen1 @JonPiccini (perhaps a bit far to come!) @MargotTudor @santinoregilme @invisihist @rtgl

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🚨CfP: Human Rights History & the Social Sciences - panel @ European Social Science History Association Conference, 2025 (deadline 14 April 2024). This proposed panel will bring together papers that concern the relation btwn the social sciences & the history of human rights...

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...and the social sciences be, going forward? For full CfP, see https://t.co/d5bjcAIzCd Send abstracts of 200-500 words or any questions to @BouwmanBastiaan @michelle_torino (check CfP for email addresses)

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

Every individual contribution to my Legal Defense Fund has a huge impact. Our collective power is stronger than anything the fossil fuel industry can throw at us.

If you can, please donate now so we can reach our goal of $20,000 by Sunday. Go to https://t.co/gqbcrU8RT5 🙏

[Burak Sayım @burak_sayim]

My colleague @Severyan and I are excited to publish this CfP for a workshop/special issue on internationalist politics of the Global South in the Cold War. The workshop will be at @GVAGrad_IntHist and selected papers will be published in @GlobalSixties
https://t.co/9cMWSKqrDq

[Dr Margot Tudor @MargotTudor]

🔴Fascinating new (interactive!) report on organisational power and inequality within @MSF by a stellar research team: @EleanorDavey, @JamesMyfanwy, Molly Naisanga and Lioba Hirsch. Well worth a read for anyone working in (or on) humanitarianism and NGOs:
https://t.co/AiR4tIQAO2

[eric burton @ericburton227]

Call for Abstracts: "“Dealing in Solidarity” Liberation Movements’ Perspectives on International Aid" https://t.co/ytbqM8tbsV

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@rtglauser Good luck!