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At the recent Amnesty International International Council meeting in Mexico a remit motion seeking to declare abortion a human right was discussed. In their latest "Freedom Letter" it is noted that Amnesty International was consulting world-wide on this issue. Right to Life New Zealand is a human rights organization that upholds the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death. It holds that every human being is endowed by its creator with an inalienable right to life. Right to Life applauds and supports AI for its courageous defence of human rights. We are totally opposed to a change of...

Vice President Dick Cheney, when asked about Amnesty International's recent condemnation of the U.S. prison camp at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said: "I don't take them seriously." Mr. Cheney, in a taped interview that aired last night on CNN's "Larry King Live," said: "Frankly, I was offended by it. I think the fact of the matter is, the United States has done more to advance the cause of freedom, has liberated more people from tyranny over the course of the 20th century and up to the present day than any other nation in the history of the world....

Amnesty International has chastised the Prince William County Sheriff's Office for its recent use of a stun belt against sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad, saying that use of the belt is akin to torture and violates international law. In a letter to Sheriff E. Lee Stoffregen III (D) dated Sept. 22, the human rights advocacy group calls on the sheriff to get rid of the stun belts and sharply criticizes the use of the device on Muhammad during a visit to Prince William Hospital on Aug. 22. During that visit, Muhammad was shocked by the device after he refused to...