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Amnesty International Persuasive Essay Against Torture

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Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights. Working to protect people where justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. Currently the world's largest grassroots human rights organization, investigate and expose abuses, educate and mobilize the public, and help transform societies to create a safer, more just world "http://www.amnestyusa.org/about-us".

Amnesty International advocated for human rights, Stop torture campaign is one of it recent campaign. Torture is an act of intentionally imposing server suffering on someone main for the purpose of getting either confession or for punishment purpose. Torture is abuse of human right and it has no mean to be justified and is against international …show more content…

No it doesn't because there is no way to justified this barbaric act of terror on human. Anyone can confess to anything when been subjected to severe pain, many have been wrongly sentence to jail term due to false confession when place under torture. United nation refugee agency stated up to 35% of refugees are torture victims. Torture is no limited to on one or group because some were victim because of their region view, race, being at the wrong place at the wrong time or even mistaken in identity. However minority groups having are more likely to fall victim because they are targeted.

Challenges facing Amnesty International in the fight against torture are as follow. Firstly authorities committing these crimes withheld information from public and hold detainees for so long that they can even come out and share their stories. Some detention centers deny access to the outside world; such detention is also known as incommunicado detention center, to facilitate all sorts of degrading treatment or even torture without anyone being able to hear victim's stories.

Another issue is government refusal to pass laws prohibiting torture and in some countries that such law was passed, they are not been

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