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28 May 2021, 01:01 UTC Since it was founded in 1961, Amnesty International has been empowering people like you to take action for a better world. This is a snapshot of what you have made possible.
“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 all over the world could be united into common action, something effective could be done.” ....
Denmark s Rape Law is Now Consent-Based. It Took a Movement | Opinion Helle Jacobsen On 12/17/20 at 6:46 AM EST As a human rights activist there are moments where we feel things shift. One of those moments came last year during a meeting with Denmark s then Justice Minister, Søren Pape Poulsen. I was there to discuss with him our Amnesty International s Let s Talk About Yes campaign to urge the government to change Denmark s antiquated rape laws. These laws have left thousands of women unable to access justice women like the two survivor activists who were with me at the meeting. I remember watching the Minister s face as one of the survivors described in heart-rending detail how she was failed at every stage of the Danish justice system after she reported being raped by a friend in 2018. ....