From the very beginning of Amnesty International in 1961, people have written letters on behalf of victims of human rights abuses.

Dates of Amnesty Ayrshire meetings.

After twenty years of global campaigning, on 2 April 2013, governments at the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to adopt a global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT); since then over a hundred states

Amnesty International began with one man’s outrage and his courage to do something about it.