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	Amnesty International USA
		Amnesty International rallies in front of the Burmese embassy, Washington DC to support the protesters in Myanmar (Burma).
		We will describe Amnesty's new innovative plan of action, which includes mobilizing leading U.S.-based investment firms to press top oil companies operating in Sudan to leverage their unique influence to support the full and speedy deployment of a UN peacekeeping force to protect the people of Darfur.
		Amnesty, along with key partners, is leading this creative form of economic activism to approach top institutional investors with shares in companies operating in Sudan.
	www.amnestyusa.org (851 words)

	Amnesty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amnesty (from the Greek amnestia, oblivion) is an act of justice by which the supreme power in a state restores those who may have been guilty of any offence against it to the position of innocent persons.
		Amnesties, which, in the United Kingdom, may be granted by the crown alone, or by act of Parliament, were formerly usual on coronations and similar occasions, but are chiefly exercised towards associations of political criminals, and are sometimes granted absolutely, though more frequently there are certain specified exceptions.
		Thus, in the case of the earliest recorded amnesty, that of Thrasybulus at Athens, the thirty tyrants and a few others were expressly excluded from its operation; and the amnesty proclaimed on the restoration of Charles II of England did not extend to those who had taken part in the execution of his father.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amnesty (326 words)

	Amnesty International - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amnesty and its writers campaigned for the release of prisoners in many oppressive regimes around the world; all such regimes were pressured equally, no matter which side (if either) of the Cold War they might align with.
		Amnesty International was in particular a thorn in the side of the Soviet Union; they published detailed reports both of conditions in Soviet prisons and of how the Soviet political system as a whole was structured to prevent dissent and political freedom.
		Amnesty International follows a neutrality policy called the "country rule" stating that members should not be active in issues in their own nation, which also protects them from potential mistreatment by their own government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amnesty_International (2738 words)

	Crimes Of War Project > The Book
		Amnesty, from the Greek stem amnestia, meaning to forget, is an act of the legislature whose aim is to erase an accomplished fact which would otherwise be punishable, and so either to prevent or to stop legal action, or, as the case may be, to erase any sentence.
		Amnesty, in fact, is not only not to be set against the claims of victims of the crimes to which it refers, but still further, is contrary to the legal obligations of states.
		Amnesties are generally incompatible with the duty of States to investigate such acts; to guarantee freedom from such acts within their jurisdiction; and to ensure that they do not occur in the future.
	www.crimesofwar.org /thebook/amnesty.html (2202 words)

	Amnesty.nl - Time to end discrimination against women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Amnesty International is urging the governments of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to take concrete steps that will significantly improve the situation of women and eliminate violence against them in their countries.
		She told Amnesty International that she did not know that he was 20 years older than she when she agreed to the marriage, and subsequently requested a divorce.
		In its report Amnesty International calls on GCC governments to ensure that laws to protect women against violence are supported by official policy and practice, and that measures are taken to ensure their effective implementation.
	www.amnesty.nl /persberichten/ME-PB0169.shtml (933 words)

	amnesty - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about amnesty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		An amnesty is generally given in the case of whole sections of the community who have been guilty of an offence against the state, and it completely obliterates the offence whether granted before or after conviction.
		Amnesties, granted either by the sovereign or by act of Parliament, are sometimes general, but more often have certain exceptions made; for example, those responsible for his father's execution were excepted from the amnesty granted on the accession of Charles II.
		The last amnesty granted in Britain was in 1747 and was to those who had participated in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /amnesty (333 words)

	Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Network
		Amnesty International has expressed strong concern to the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) about the arrest last month at a hotel in Abu Dhabi of 26 men allegedly for organizing a “gay wedding ceremony” and called for urgent clarification of their legal status and treatment in detention.
		Amnesty International is concerned about a climate of intolerance in Poland against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, characterised by the banning of public events organized by the LGBT community, openly homophobic language used by some highly placed politicians, and incitement of homophobic hatred by some right-wing groupings.
		Amnesty International has written to the Minister of the Interior seeking clarification of the report, expressing concern that the men have apparently been sentenced to flogging, and appealing for any such sentences to be commuted.
	www.amnesty.org.uk /lgbt (995 words)

	Streamlined Sales Tax Project
		Amnesty is available in all states participating as full members or associate members of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (see States offering amnesty).
		The amnesty will preclude assessment for uncollected or unpaid sales or use taxes together with interest or penalty for sales made during the period the seller was not registered in the state, provided registration occurs within 12 months of the effective date of the state's participation in the Agreement.
		Amnesty is applicable only to sales or use taxes due from a seller in its capacity as a seller and not to sales or use taxes due from a seller in its capacity as a purchaser.
	www.streamlinedsalestax.org /amnesty.html (383 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| At-a-glance: Amnesty Iraq report
		Amnesty highlights the case of Hassan Hameed Naser, killed as he walked near a demonstration where stones were being thrown at a British armoured vehicle.
		Amnesty is concerned the decision to refer cases of civilian killings for investigation lies entirely with the commanding officers of units.
		Amnesty requested meetings with both the Commander Legal attached to the British forces in Iraq and also with the Royal Military Police themselves, but were refused and referred to the Ministry of Defence.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3703213.stm (491 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Without Amnesty by Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu
		Furthermore, Amnesty’s failure to speak up when such a word fully applies is an immoral, criminal omission for an organization that professes in holier-than-thou terms to be speaking for those with no voice.
		Amnesty had had South Korea in its sights for years even though the military government had collapsed in 1987 — a full eight years previously — and democracy was blooming there.
		To ignore completely as Amnesty has done the hapless situation in North Korea in a real gulag and of escaped refugees who are forcibly repatriated back to North Korea from China to certain imprisonment or execution, is reprehensible and inexcusable.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18291 (1150 words)

	Numbers USA
		Amnesties are all too common legislative efforts to forgive the breaking of immigration laws and to make it possible for illegal aliens to live permanently in the United States.
		According to INS estimates released in October, 2000, the amnesties granted in 1986 as a result of the Immigration Reform and Control Act significantly contributed to an increase in illegal immigration as the relatives of newly legalized illegal immigrants came illegally to the United States to join their family members.
		In order to avoid lengthy debate on the costs and benefits of the amnesty and to ensure adequate support for it, the bill language was added as an amendment to the appropriations bill for the District of Columbia (H.R. 2607) and passed as part of that bill.
	www.numbersusa.com /interests/amnesty.html (2063 words)

	Amnesty International at the University of Tennessee @ Knoxville
		In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and "disappearances"; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups.
		Amnesty International is impartial and independent of any government, political persuasion or religious creed.
		Amnesty International is financed largely by subscriptions and donations from its worldwide membership.
	web.utk.edu /~amnesty (160 words)

	Numbers USA
		Amnesty would undermine the integrity of the country's immigration laws and would depress the wages of its lowest-paid native-born workers.
		Back in 1986, Congress granted amnesty to an estimated three million illegal immigrants as part of a law that also promised to crack down on further illegal immigration by imposing sanctions on employers who knowingly violated the law.
		Amnesties signal foreign workers that American citizenship can be had by sneaking across the border, or staying beyond the term of one's visa, and hiding out until Congress passes the next amnesty.
	www.numbersusa.com /text?ID=205 (437 words)

	Amnesty for illegal aliens - THE AMERICAN RESISTANCE FOUNDATION
		An amnesty for illegal aliens forgives their act of illegal immigration and implicitly forgives other related illegal acts such as driving and working using false documents.
		The result of an amnesty is that large numbers of foreigners who illegally gained entry into the United States are rewarded with legal status for their breaking the law.
		Amnesties beget illegal immigration, by Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies, October 16, 2000.
	www.theamericanresistance.com /issues/amnesty.html (922 words)

	California Tax Amnesty: Who's eligible, how to apply, etc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		An amnesty penalty is imposed at the rate of 50 percent of the existing unpaid interest amount on years for which you could have applied for amnesty.
		An amnesty penalty is also imposed at the rate of 50 percent of accrued interest on tax assessments that become final after the March 31, 2005.
		The FTB may not bring criminal action against taxpayers for the taxable years or tax reporting periods for which amnesty is allowed for the nonreporting or underreporting of tax liabilities or the nonpayment of any taxes previously assessed or proposed to be assessed.
	www.ftb.ca.gov /amnesty/faq.html (1883 words)

	04/15/02 - Who Cares About Terrorists? Pols Still Want Amnesty
		What critics of amnesty have recently disclosed is that, under the legislation the House passed and the Bush administration supported, aliens currently being detained on suspicion of involvement in terrorism may be able to apply for amnesty.
		The amnesty is extended under section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and under that section aliens in the United States without legal status who meet certain requirements may apply for legalization.
		The Republicans tried to pass the amnesty virtually in secret by a voice vote, but thanks to amnesty opponent Rep. Tom Tancredo, they were forced to vote on the record.
	www.vdare.com /francis/amnesty_0415.htm (771 words)

	Amnesty Widget Browser 1.2.2 – Mac OS X – VersionTracker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Amnesty Widget Browser is a utility for Mac OS X Tiger and Panther (10.3.9) that allows Dashboard widgets to have expanded capabilities as they run directly on your desktop via a convenient icon in your system menu bar..
		Widgets loaded in Amnesty Widget Browser run completely outside of Apple's Dashboard environment, maintain their own preferences and feature adjustable settings such as window level (desktop, standard or floating), opacity (transparency) and shape (now you can rotate and scale your widgets so they fit on your desktop where you want them).
		Amnesty is wonderful, except that the last two versions crash constantly.
	www.versiontracker.com /dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26627 (342 words)

	Amnesty's Amnesia / VIEW FROM THE RIGHT
		Amnesty¹s members spend considerable time wailing and gnashing their teeth about alleged torture crimes, but when a powerful nation actually takes action to bring these dictators to justice, they just wail and gnash their teeth some more.
		The Amnesty report charges that "the U.S.-led war against terrorism is sowing fear and danger in the name of security across the globe and denying basic rights to those who have been arrested." Well, duh.
		Amnesty may not be aware that there is an international terrorist war going on.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/06/09/asparks.DTL (1752 words)

	Sudan: Rape as a weapon of war in Darfur - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Girls as young as eight are being raped in Darfur, Sudan, and used as sex slaves.
		The report Sudan, Darfur: Rape as a weapon of war, Sexual violence and its consequences is based on interviews with Sudanese refugees made by Amnesty International during May 2004 in refugee camps in Chad.
		Amnesty International’s global campaign to Stop Violence Against Women is working to end this and other hidden human rights scandal.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engafr540842004 (624 words)

	CBC News: Amnesty likens Guantanamo Bay to 'gulag' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to Amnesty, the U.S. administration's failure to fully investigate torture of Iraqi prisoners in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib jail illustrated the "huge gap between rhetoric and reality" concerning human rights.
		Amnesty said indigenous women and girls in Canada suffered a disproportionately high incidence of violence.
		Amnesty also criticized Canada for alleged police abuses such as the killings of Dudley George and Neil Stonechild.
	www.cbc.ca /storyview/MSN/world/national/2005/05/25/guantanamo-amnesty050525.html (614 words)

	Amnesty International - Working To Protect Human Rights Worldwide
		The situation in Myanmar continues to worsen with reports emerging of escalating attempts by the authorities to repress on-going demonstrations.
		Amnesty International has called on the international community to act urgently and for the UN Security Council to visit the country immediately.
		Join Amnesty International or make a donation and help end human rights violations.
	www.amnesty.org (219 words)

	Amnesty International: USA Campaign - Rights For All, Reports, briefings and focus
		A 1996 Amnesty International investigation found that although steps had been taken to tackle corruption within the NYPD, police brutality remained a serious problem.7 Local community and civil rights groups have reported that aggressive "zero tolerance" policing has been accompanied by unacceptable levels of brutality, especially toward racial minorities.
		In most cases reviewed by Amnesty International in which substantial damage awards were made for police misconduct, the officers had been absolved from any criminal liability.
		60 Amnesty International was told in May 1997 by the city attorney in Chicago that the city did not keep a record of police misconduct lawsuits separate from other claims.
	www.rightsforall.amnesty.org /info/report/r03.htm (11717 words)

	Amnesty at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Amnesties, which may be granted by the crown alone, or by act of parliament, were formerly usual on coronations and similar occasions, but are chiefly exercised towards associations of political criminals, and are sometimes granted absolutely, though more frequently there are certain specified exceptions.
		The last act of amnesty passed in Great Britain was that of 1747, which proclaimed a pardon to those who had taken part in the second Jacobite Rebellion.
		Amnesty is often now used as a short form of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Amnesty.html (233 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Iraqi insurgents could get amnesty
		In a sign of the new government's desire to distance itself from the 14-month U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, a spokesman for interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi went as far as to suggest attacks on U.S. troops over the past year were legitimate acts of resistance.
		Besides the amnesty plan, those include the resurrection of Iraq's death penalty and an emergency law that sets curfews in Iraq's trouble spots, Sada said.
		Some type of amnesty is needed to coax Iraqi nationalist guerrillas to the government's side, while separating them from fighters using terrorist-style bombings, experts say.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001971787_amnesty04.html (455 words)

	Amnesty.nl - Marked for death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The organization is urging the Rwandese government and international community to provide redress and compensation for victims of the genocide and to take on the challenge of justice in Rwanda.
		Although access to medical treatment is increasing, the vast majority of these women can only hope that someone will be able to care for their children after their deaths.
		In its new report, Amnesty International calls on the Rwandan government, with the help of international donors, to enhance the provision of medical care to all survivors of sexual violence.
	www.amnesty.nl /persberichten/NK-PB0441.shtml (438 words)

	Amnesty International: USA Rights For All - What YOU Can Do!! - Death Penalty Appeals
		Urge her to use her influence to ensure that rigorous national standards are established to prevent abuses in prisons and jails and, in particular, to stop the cruel use of restraints and the use of electro-shock stun-belts.
		Amnesty International is a worldwide voluntary human rights movement that campaigns for the release of prisoners of conscience, fair trials for political prisoners, and an end to torture and the death penalty, "disappearances" and political killings all over the world.
		Amnesty International works impartially to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards.
	www.rightsforall.amnesty.org /what/appeals/torture.htm (1032 words)

	www.myspace.com/amnesty01
		The founder of Amnesty is Jake Wood guitar/vocals.
		Amnesty is lookin forward to what the future has and wants to take advantage of the potential of all the opportunties of what the future has.
		Amnesty lives on for all of us that have the music, the pictures, the experiences, and the memories.
	www.myspace.com /amnesty01 (810 words)

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