amnesty international was founded to fight the repressive abuses of governments around the world. you characterise it as defending prisoners of conscience, fighting against torture and the death penalty. today, amnesty releases reports about climate justice, saying more oil equals more problems. you enter into debates about global economicjustice. do you think you re in danger of diffusing the strong and focused message of your organisation? absolutely not. the basis for amnesty s work is the udhr. in fact, we re celebrating. the universal declaration of human rights. yeah, we re celebrating its 75th anniversary. and now is not the time to suggest that it cannot be the basis for the work. the udhr recognise a range of human rights. amnesty international is not only focusing on civil and political rights, even though that s
let s move on, because we don t have much time left, and we don t want to just focus on particular countries. i want to make a broader point. amnesty international was founded to fight the repressive abuses of governments around the world. you characterise it as defending prisoners of conscience, fighting against torture and the death penalty. today, amnesty releases reports about climate justice, saying more oil equals more problems. you enter into debates about global economicjustice. do you think you re in danger of diffusing the strong and focused message of your organisation? absolutely not. the basis for amnesty s work is the udhr. in fact, we re celebrating. the universal declaration of human rights. yeah, we re celebrating its 75th anniversary. and now is not the time to suggest that it cannot be the basis for the work. the udhr recognise a range of human rights.