About Us
Amnesty International Ireland is the country’s largest human rights organisation with over 15,000 members and supporters. We are part of a global movement of more than 3.2 million people working in more than 150 countries around the world.
We are independent of any political ideology, economic interest or religion. We do not support or oppose any government or political system.
Our sole concern is the protection of the fundamental human rights guaranteed to each one of us by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Amnesty International Ireland takes part in three global campaigns; against torture and terror, to end FGM and to abolish the death penalty.
We take action for the victims of US torture cells in Guantánamo. Our members have already persuaded Ireland to assist this by accepting two former detainees for resettlement. But torture and renditions continue, the Irish Government has failed to act on clear evidence of rendition flights using Shannon as a base.
The END FGM campaign is a three-year Europe-wide campaign led by Amnesty International Ireland. It is running in partnership with non-governmental organisations that work directly with national governments in EU member states. The campaign aims to put female genital mutilation (FGM) high on the EU agenda and to echo the voices of women who have undergone FGM and those at risk of being subjected to it.
The death penalty is the ultimate, irreversible denial of human rights. By working towards the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, Amnesty International Death Penalty Abolition Campaign looks to end the cycle of violence created by a system riddled with economic and racial bias and tainted by human error.
We also work on four priority countries; Israel and the Occupied Territories, Iran, Colombia and Zimbabwe.
As human rights situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories continues to deteriorate, we campaign to end the humanitarian blockade of Gaza. Thousands have been killed and some of the most basic of human rights have been denied through settlements, construction of the wall, demolition of homes and administrative detention.
We campaign to defend condemned prisoners on death row in Iran, where hundreds of men and women have been tortured or are held in appalling conditions, for peacefully working for human rights.
Amnesty International Ireland’s Colombia Group have a particular focus on human rights in Colombia. We lobby the Government and members of the Oireachtas and organise demonstrations.
We take action for the victims of state sponsored violence in Zimbabwe, where the human rights situation continues to deteriorate. The key focus of the Amnesty campaign is the protection of human rights defenders and ending impunity for violations of human rights.
In Ireland we campaign on the right to mental health, for the rights of LGBT people, and to educate and involve a Youth Generation of Amnesty International.
We campaign for the right to mental health in Ireland, where we focus on using the human rights framework to demand action from Government. We campaign for a social approach in response to mental health that is focused on people’s rights, in particular the right to live a full life in the community and the right to choice in treatment.
Our LGBT Discrimination Group focuses its work on engaging with human rights issues which particularly relate to LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) people, in Ireland and around the world. It does so by meeting regularly with members of the LGBT community in Ireland, and utilises a human rights based approach to ending discrimination.
Reporting to our members
Amnesty International has approximately 15,000 members in Ireland who are entitled to attend and vote at our AGM and elect an Executive Committee who act as the governing body of the organisation.
Download the Annual Report we presented to our members at our March 2011 AGM.
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