Book contents
- Amnesty International and Human Rights Activismin Postwar Britain, 1945–1977
- Human Rights in History
- Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945–1977
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Dawn: 1934–1950
- 2 Africa, Decolonisation and Human Rightsin the 1950s
- 3 Political Imprisonment and Human Rights, 1945–1964
- 4 The Early Years of Amnesty International, 1961–1964
- 5 ‘The Crisis of Growth’: Amnesty International 1964–1968
- 6 1968: the UN Year for Human Rights
- 7 Torture States: 1967–1975
- 8 ‘All Things Come to Those Who Wait’: the Later 1970s
- Conclusion: the Winds of History
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - ‘All Things Come to Those Who Wait’: the Later 1970s
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 April 2020
- Amnesty International and Human Rights Activismin Postwar Britain, 1945–1977
- Human Rights in History
- Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945–1977
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Dawn: 1934–1950
- 2 Africa, Decolonisation and Human Rightsin the 1950s
- 3 Political Imprisonment and Human Rights, 1945–1964
- 4 The Early Years of Amnesty International, 1961–1964
- 5 ‘The Crisis of Growth’: Amnesty International 1964–1968
- 6 1968: the UN Year for Human Rights
- 7 Torture States: 1967–1975
- 8 ‘All Things Come to Those Who Wait’: the Later 1970s
- Conclusion: the Winds of History
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 8 looks at the putative ‘breakthrough‘ of human rights in the 1970s, both in terms of the proliferation of activist organisations and their greater impact on governments. Beginning with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Amnesty International, the chapter then looks more widely at the events of the 1970s and Amnesty’s growth. Although the membership of the British Section did not expand as rapidly as that of some other national sections, Amnesty represented a model of activism that many other organisations sought to emulate. These included Index on Censorship and the Minority Rights Group. By the later 1970s attempts were being made to organise the ‘field of human rights‘ into loose organisational networks.
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