Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945–1977

The Life and Times of Human Rights Organizations: Organizational Biographies and the Sociology of Human Rights

“…In recent years, several monographs exploring the history of specific human rights organizations have been published, including, for example, Amnesty International (Buchanan, 2020, Hopgood, 2006, the ACLU (Cose, 2020), The Northern Ireland-Based Committee for the Administration of Justice (CAJ) (Beirne, 2016), or ACT UP (Schulman, 2021). These books have joined similar biographies of humanitarian organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (Forsythe, 2005;Morehead, 1999).…”

Transnational Dimensions of a ‘German Case’: The Expatriation of Wolf Biermann and the Politics of Solidarity in the 1970s

“…From its principal concern for political prisoners, Amnesty broadened its focus during the 1970s, for example through its anti-torture campaign. 121 As a censored and then exiled author, Biermann did not fall directly under the organization's remit. However, Amnesty documented the cases of individuals who had been imprisoned because of their support for Biermann and for more general criticisms of the regime.…”