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Amnesty International is a registered charity that does not seek or accept government funding. It relies entirely on its membership and donors to make its work possible. By generating more financial support for Amnesty, you are helping to maintain the organisation’s independence.
Amnesty International is committed to international human rights principles. We do not support any one ideological, political, religious, or other model of government or society. We do not accept government funding for our research and campaigning work to maintain a neutral and impartial approach t
The vast majority of our income comes from small donations from private individuals. More than 1.7m individuals donated to Amnesty International in 2023. The average donation per month was €13.30. In 2023, we raised €370m for human rights work, a decrease of 4% from 2022 (€384m). The rising costs across the world is being felt by all our ...
- Introduction
- Amnesty’s Obfuscation on Government Funding
- Amnesty International’s Justification
- Researcher Bias
In its Statute, Amnesty International fosters an image that “impartiality and independence” are core tenets of its agenda. Amnesty presents itself as unbiased, and independent of governments and their interests, and its statements are widely accepted because the media and diplomats consider the NGO as upholding the universal principles of human rig...
Introduction The Amnesty International Volunteer guidebook, under fundraising policies, categorically states, “AI neither asks for nor accepts direct donations from governments.” Similarly, on its website, Amnesty International claims, “We neither seek nor accept any funds for human rights research from governments or political parties.” The refusa...
Little known Amnesty documents indicate that the NGO permit acceptance of government support. In a May 2006 “Human Rights Education” newsletter, Amnesty writes: [Human Rights Education (HRE)] is distinct from the reactive research and campaigning usually associated with AI in that it is preventative, promotional human rights work. For this reason, ...
Introduction As noted above, Amnesty’s core values include “impartiality and independence.” Amnesty also claims that impartiality is core to its methodology of “systematically and impartially research[ing] the facts of individual cases and patterns of human rights abuses.” In order to maintain impartiality, Amnesty adopted a policy prohibiting “Wor...
- We don’t accept money from governments… …other than in very limited circumstances, including human rights education, which make up less than 1% of our total income.
- Over 81% of our income comes from individual donations. And much of this will be from regular monthly gifts. Having a steady, predictable flow of money means we can better plan our human rights research and campaigning.
- 95% of our income is ‘unrestricted’ This means we are not asked to use it in a particular way, so we can spend most of our money wherever in the world the need is greatest.
- Street fundraising works. Last year, we raised at least €4 million from new supporters through face-to-face fundraising, despite how hard it can be. “People deliberately sidestep you, ignore you, avoid eye contact or run away,” says Hannah Diaz, who spent a day as a street fundraiser last year.
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