Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | International Institute of Social History, owner.
Amnesty International, owner.
AM (Publisher), digitiser.
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| Notes: | Content warning: The material in this collection may contain mention of potentially distressing themes, including but not limited to descriptions of discrimination, torture, imprisonment, disappearances and execution.
Shows rationale, discussions and decision-making about important social/political issues at the top level of the organisation.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2023. Digitized from a copy held by the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Description based on publisher metadata (viewed November 13, 2023).
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| Summary: | Contains a sheet with details and agenda of the assembly weekend, which includes details about the cost of attending and accommodation and travel arrangement, there is also a space for members to fill in their name and address to indicate they're attending; an international bulletin which includes a resolution on prison conditions; a statement of accounts; a press release 'Peter Benenson hands over as Secretary-General', this includes a brief summary of the origins of AI and what they stand for and it includes two 'crucial questions' that will be discussed at the Assembly: 'Where AI should seek to secure the release of those who, being denied normal political redress, feel themselves obliged to resort to violence in the defence of freedom; and whether AI should work on behalf of the victims of racial discrimination'; a few pages of resolutions i.e. on prison conditions, on the death sentence, on racial discrimination, on addition to the 'code of conduct'; contains a sheet with definition of a prisoner of conscience; includes 'Violence and Racialism: A Report on the Eustomy Questionnaire', considers whether AI should broaden their remit when their 'resources and energies are too limited'; then contains some resolutions from sections not represented at the international assembly e.g. New South Wales and Victoria.
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