AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
IT IS BETTER TO LIGHT A CANDLE
THAN TO CURSE THE DARKNESS
WHO WE
ARE
WHO WE
ARE
AISA is one of Amnesty International’s student groups which connects Dutch as well as international students through their shared passion for human rights.
As the daughter organization of Amnesty International, we work by the same values of justice, fairness, truth, and freedom.
The dream to change the world on a personal level, one individual at a time, and to bring attention to human rights violations taking place right under our eyes is what motivates us.
AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL
AISA follows the footsteps of Amnesty International. Amnesty International has become the largest non-governmental organisation in the world.
It is one of the most effective NGOs at setting the international agenda to promote Human Rights and set new norms for international and national actors to follow.
AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL
Our greatest achievements
Our greatest achievements
Campaigning to end torture in 1972
→ 12 years later, the UN convention against torture was adopted
Campaigning to abolish the death penalty in 1980
→ In 2019, 104 countries have completely abolished it
Campaigning for rights of prisoners of conscience
→ In 2002, the International Criminal Court was founded
