from Amnesty International India, Jan 21, 2015
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"Over 50 years ago, Amnesty’s founder Peter Benenson, warned, “The
important thing is to mobilise public opinion quickly, and widely…. The
force of opinion, to be effective, should be broadly based,
international, non-sectarian and all-party. Campaigns in favour of
freedom brought by one country, or party, against another, often achieve
nothing but an intensification of persecution.”
Those words remain relevant today. Campaigns on everything from an
Arms Trade Treaty to Syria can achieve much more if they have global
reach and are not confined to a few countries, which can indeed weaken
or set back the campaigning aims."
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