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5 MeSSaGe FroM tHe eXeCutIVe DIreCtor

6 MeSSaGe FroM tHe BoarD CHaIr

7 tHe MIDDle eaSt anD nortH aFrICa: a Year oF unpreCeDenteD reBellIon

11FaCeS oF FreeDoM

15DeatH penaltY aBolItIon CaMpaIGn

17SeCurItY WItH HuMan rIGHtS CaMpaIGn

18SCIenCe For HuMan rIGHtS CaMpaIGn

19DeManD DIGnItY CaMpaIGn

20CoMMunICatIonS

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22FInanCIal Data

24SpeCIal tHankS

302011 SenIor StaFF, BoarD oF DIreCtorS, anD aIuSa oFFICeS


The Syrian governmenT under president Bashar al-Assad responded to the initial eruption of peaceful protests in March 2011 with brutal violence. In response to being ordered to shoot unarmed civilians, large numbers of men deserted the army and formed the Free Syrian Army. the protest movement has now turned into an armed uprising, with clashes between the regular army and the Free Syrian Army taking place in early 2012. throughout the later months of 2011, the Syrian government tortured those caught up in the massive wave of arrests on a scale not seen in the country for decades, according to Amnesty International’s report, Deadly Detention: Deaths in custody amid popular protest in Syria—yet Syrians have continued to risk their lives to demand reforms.

Schoolgirls demonstrate against the Syrian regime in Zabadani, the only town in Syria officially held by the rebels. the girls shout “We support the Free Syrian Army”, “Assad, go to hell” and “the people want the end of the regime.”


“I think my strength comes from people like you. It’s the support that we have received from friends and sympathizers all over the world that has helped to keep our courage up over the years. people who do a little for amnesty International, they do much more than they think they are doing. they think they are doing very little, but it all adds up to a lot. and that is what has kept us going.”

nobel peace laureate aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained by Myanmar’s military junta for more than 15 years for her leadership of the national league for Democracy. Amnesty International began advocating for her release when she was first arrested in 1989 and honored her with its 2009 Ambassador of Conscience award.

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Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the national league for Democracy, thecountry’s main opposition party and democracy movement, during an April2012 campaign stop in Kalaw.

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alThough i became The execuTive direcTor of Amnesty International USA in January 2012, after the end of the fiscal period covered in this report, I would like to share some reflections on the tremendous strengths and opportunities we have as an organization. During my first quarter here, I’ve met with staff, donors, activists, supporters and the leaders of 80 AI sections. I attended our Annual General Meeting in Denver and encountered energetic, creative activists of all ages who are brimming with ideas on how to raise the profile of human rights across the country. My conversations with AI’s various constituencies sharpened my understanding of AI’s distinctive advantages as we navigate the challenges facing the human rights movement. they also positioned me to see our role from different vantage points: our advocacy targets in Washington, statehouses around the country and governments around the world; our partner non-governmental

organizations; multilateral institutions; and volunteer leaders, funders, and supporters. the more I learn about Amnesty International, the more I am convinced that we are a powerful force for change. In the following pages, you will read about the human rights victories that demonstrate the influence of our signature combination of independent reporting, high-level advocacy and grassroots tactics. throughout the early months of 2011, as massive popular revolts against tyranny swept across the Middle east and north Africa, our research teams fanned out across the region to document human rights violations in real time, building upon decades of research and longstanding partnerships with local human rights groups. At the March 2011 annual general meeting in San Francisco, AI activists rejoiced as Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called from Yangon to thank them for campaigning on her behalf since 1989—years of dedicated casework that contributed to her release after more than 15 years in detention and recent appointment in the government. At home,

AI’s years of skillful campaigning brought the case of death-row prisoner troy Davis to the attention of millions of people across the country and catalyzed a national moment of reckoning regarding the continued use of the death penalty. this is only a partial list of AI’s key accomplishments—and a testament to what we can accomplish when we direct our considerable intellectual, legislative and campaigning resources toward clearly defined human rights goals. I am happy to be able to share these successes with you and thank you, our supporters, for making it all possible. I look forward to working together to make 2012 an even more successful year.

Suzanne nosselExecutive Director, Amnesty International USA

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of Amnesty International USA comes to an end, I, too, would like to share a few thoughts. As you have seen in these pages, we achieved important human rights victories last year. Under the able leadership of our new executive director, Suzanne nossel, we are implementing a bold new business and strategic plan that will enable us to move forward as an even more powerful, stronger and effective voice for human rights. I’ve never known Amnesty International activists to shrink from a challenge. today, the challenge is this: to work with ingenuity,

imagination and efficiency in order to maximize our resources during a sustained economic downturn. For me, doing more translates into more people safe from torture and freed from unjust imprisonment; more people able to express their peaceful opinions without fear of reprisals; more people free from the crippling burden of poverty and the hardship that accompanies it, such as forced evictions or the necessity of seeking livelihoods in other countries, far from safety and family. Women everywhere need to be free to reach their full potential, and we need once and for all to end the death penalty in the United States and everywhere in the world. So as I move on to take different roles

within Amnesty International—group member, activist, financial supporter—I wish all of you the very best.

Carole nagengastChair of the Board of Directors, Amnesty International USA

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The global human righTS movemenT has been ir-revocably changed by the extraordinary courage of the millions of people across the Middle east and north Africa who have put their lives on the line to fight for basic freedoms. At the beginning

of the tunisian revolution in December 2010, Amnesty In-ternational triggered its “crisis response mode,” sending regional experts to the region to document rapidly unfolding events. As the regional uprising unfolded, AI dispatched

fact-finding missions to egypt, libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other hot spots in the region to conduct independent documentation of human rights violations. AI researchers bore witness to both heady protests and violent crackdowns. they interviewed witnesses and survivors of violence at the hands of armies, police, security forces and rebels. they inspected hospital and prison records, spoke to state officials, lawyers and

local human rights defend-ers, and collected every manner of evidence possible in volatile settings. their findings have been published in numerous reports, and they formed the basis of scores of urgent ac-tions on behalf of individuals at grave risk of harm, media briefings covering key devel-opments, and comprehensive country reports made avail-able to the organization’s worldwide network of more than 3 million members.

on February 12, Amnesty International organized soli-darity rallies in various cities around the world in support of egyptian protesters. on March 15 Amnesty Inter-national Secretary General Salil Shetty met with U.n. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and urged the United nations to step up its efforts to stop human rights viola-tions in libya, and to push for human rights to be at the center of political reform in egypt and tunisia. Shetty

also spoke out in support of people’s organizations, including women’s groups, that were being excluded from the reform process, and called attention to security forces that continued to use violence against peaceful protesters in both these countries and elsewhere in the region.


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bahrainreporTS: Bahrain: Fair trial and freedom of expression must be guaranteed; Crackdown In Bahrain: Human Rights At The Crossroads; Middle East and North Africa: Year of rebellion: The state of human rights in the Middle East and North Africaai ground miSSionS: February, April, September and november-December for research and meetings with the government. the delegation observed the first session of the trial of 23 Shi’a activists arrested in August and September.

egypTreporTS: ‘Shouting slogans into the wind’: Human rights concerns ahead of the parliamentary elections, Middle East and North Africa: Year of rebellion: The state of human rights in the Middle East and North Africaai ground miSSionS: January-March, April, May, June, June-July, August-September and november-December

iSrael and occupied TerriTorieSreporTS: Dashed Hopes: Continuation of the Gaza blockadeai ground miSSionS: May and november

libyareporTS: The Battle for Libya: Killings, disappearances and torture, Middle East and North Africa: Year of rebellion: The state of human rights in the Middle East and North Africaai ground miSSionS: February-

May and August-September. AI researchers also visited lampe-dusa island, Italy, to interview libyans who had fled by sea.

Saudi arabiareporTS: Saudi Arabia: Repression in the Name of Securityai ground miSSionS: Saudi au-thorities denied access; but AI closely monitored developments through longstanding ties with individuals and organizations in the country.

SyriareporTS: Deadly detention: Deaths in custody amid popular protest in Syria; Crackdown in Syria: Terror in Tell Kalakh; Health Crisis: Syrian Government Targets the Wounded and Health Workers; Middle East and North Africa: Year of rebellion: The state of human rights in the Middle East and North Africaai ground miSSionS: Human rights organizations and foreign journalists were barred entry to Syria; AI delegates traveled to lebanon in April and May, and to turkey in June, to speak to Syrians who had recently fled.

TuniSiareporTS: Tunisia: Human rights agenda for change; Tunisia in Revolt: State violence during antigovernment protests; Middle East and North Africa: Year of rebellion: The state of human rights in the Middle East and North Africaai ground miSSionS: January, February-March, April and october

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A woman casts her vote in the referendum on how egypt’s new government should be formed following the Feb. 11, 2011, resignation of the late president Hosni Mubarak.

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“Without a shadow of doubt, the worst human rights violations I witnessed occurred in Misratah. the city was completely under siege, surrounded by al-Gaddafi’s forces, with the only access by sea. When I was there in April, rockets were literally raining down all over the town every day, in residential areas. large numbers of people were killed in indiscriminate rocket attacks, by tank rounds and mortars. Many were killed in their homes, others as they were trying to flee—including children and elderly people—and hundreds lost limbs and sustained horrendous injuries.”

Donatella rovera, Amnesty International’s senior crisis response advisor, who concluded a three-month ground mission to libya from late February to May.

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A woman boards a boat as thousands of Syrian refugees try to escape libya at the port in Benghazi, days after the beginnings of the February 2011 revolution against the 41-year rule of Col. Muammar Gaddafi. Syria sent ships to evacuate their citizens, but there was room for just 1,000 passengers on each.

Faces oF FreedomThe collecTive acTion of hundredS of ThouSandS of memberS around the world power Amnesty International’s life-saving campaigns on behalf of prisoners of conscience and people at risk of forced evictions and other human rights abuses. Since our founding 50 years ago, AI activists’ letters, faxes, petitions, vigils and protests have contributed to the freedom of tens of thousands of brave people who endured unjust imprisonment, abuse and torture—and have brought comfort and hope to countless prisoners in despair. Here is a selection of cases that saw positive results in 2011 following action by AI members.

ZaHra SalIH, YeMenreleaSed: January 11 Zahra Salih, an activist in Yemen’s Southern Movement, was arrested in november 2010 and held incommunicado for more than two months.

natallYa raDZIna, BelaruS releaSed on bail: Januarynatallya Radzina was among the 30 people detained for taking part in a largely peaceful demonstration in Minsk, Belarus, to protest the alleged rigging of presidential elections in December 2010.

“i am free only because of you . . because of each human rights activist, each politician or journalist who supported me even just with words. it is thanks to your support

and your prayers. i am no mythological hero; together you are a huge uncrushable force, capable of influencing events.”

—natallya radzina, in a message to supporters

HaYtHaM al-MaleH, SYrIareleaSed: march 8Haytham al-Maleh was arrested on oct. 14, 2009, and convicted following an unfair trial on charges related to his efforts to expose human rights violations in Syria. Al-Maleh was released as part of an amnesty ordered by president Bashar al-Assad.

“i would like to thank all the workers at amnesty international and all those who supported my case, whether they were individuals or governments, from around the world. i

hope to keep the promise i made to those who have supported me, by continuing with my work. i call on the government to release all the prisoners of conscience in ‘adra prison and the thousands of others like them detained in security facilities.”

—haytham al-maleh

aakaSH MallaH anD noor MoHaMMaD kHaSkHelI, pakIStan releaSed: march 17


“it was you, my friends and saviors from amnesty international, who kept alight the flame of hope in my soul. i received messages from you while at the remotest places and most desperate situations. These messages gave comfort to my soul, inspired hope in dead-end situations. your campaign and your letters helped me out of the abyss of despair. amnesty international has once again proved its inestimable worth, its hope for salvation. i am grateful to you. you have saved my family from death, and i’ll never forget you, to the end of my life. i was not alone in my prison, in winter or summer, on dark or bright days.”

—eynulla fatullayev

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Activists Aakash Mallah and noor Mohammad Khaskheli, members of the Sindhi nationalist party Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, were freed after having been “disappeared” for almost 17 months.

Dr. BInaYak Sen, InDIareleaSed: april 15India’s Supreme Court granted bail to human rights defender Binayak Sen, who spent 100 days in prison as part of a politically motivated life sentence on sedition and conspiracy charges. It was the second time the nation’s highest court intervened; Dr. Sen spent more than two years in prison between 2007 and 2009.

rana al-aqBanI, lIBYareleaSed: april 17A group of armed men in plainclothes entered the tripoli home of 28-year-old Syrian journalist Rana al-Aqbani on March 28. After searching her apartment and confiscating mobile phones, a computer and personal documents, the men seized her and her younger brother, Hani al-Aqbani, without providing reason for the arrest and detained them incommunicado.

eYnulla FatullaYeV, aZerBaIjanreleaSed: mayImprisoned journalist eynulla Fatullayev was freed just days after AI activists organized an international social media push on his behalf. Despite a ruling by the european Court of Human Rights that found Fatullayev wrongfully imprisoned, he had been jailed since 2007 on a series of trumped-up charges, including defamation, terrorism and incitement to ethnic hatred. Azerbaijan’s government has long targeted Fatullayev for his outspoken criticism.

aI WeIWeI, CHInareleaSed: June 22Internationally renowned Chinese artist

Ai Weiwei, an out-spoken critic of the Chinese authorities, was detained without charge for more than two months in the spring of 2011. He was released on condi-tion of not leaving

Beijing without permission.

eMaDeDDIn BaGHI, IranreleaSed: June emadeddin Baghi was released after serving two concurrent one-year prison sentences for “propaganda against the state” in Iran.

“one really feels as though we are all part of one family . . . i would like to send my warmest regards to all our friends on the team in amnesty.”

—emadeddin baghi

ZaFFar SHaFI HakeeM, InDIareleaSed: Junenineteen-year-old Zaffar Shafi Hakeem was released from police custody after being arrested in January 2011 in the state of Jammu and Kashmir and held in

administrative detention under the public Safety Act. the high court of Jammu and Kashmir found the detention unlawful.

rIMa BInt aBDul raHMan al-jareeSH anD SHarIFa al-Saqa’aBI, SauDI araBIa releaSed: July 5Rima bint Abdul Rahman al-Jareesh and Sharifa al-Saqa’abi were released after being arrested by security forces while leaving a


“what’s the point if a few of us live well and shut our mouths but the government continues to abuse other citizens, creating more broken families and poverty and pushing people outside the city to give their land to the richest businessmen? many who seek justice through law face detention and torture in custody. what we ask for is not a personal settlement, but public justice.”

—mao hengfengMao Hengfeng celebrating the lunar new Year in tiananmen Square, Beijing, in 2010, before she was detained again and sentenced to 18 months of “re-education through labor” for supporting detained nobel laureate and human rights defender liu Xiaobo.

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demonstration calling for the fair and public trial of their male relatives, who have been detained for years without charge or trial. Some 13 other women and 5 children were also arrested and later released after they reportedly signed pledges not to protest again.

HaWa aBDallaH, SuDanreleaSed: July 13Hawa Abdallah works as a community acti vist and a translator for the joint U.n.-African Mission in Darfur (UnAMID) Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced persons. She was arrested on May 6 by armed officers of the national Intelligence and Security Services.

aaYat alqorMoZI, BaHraInreleaSed on bail: July 13 Aayat Alqormozi, a poet and university stu-

dent in Bahrain, was sentenced to one year in prison after reading a poem at a peaceful demonstration. Her release came after AI members wrote countless letters to

Bahraini authorities calling for her release. Aayat said she was beaten and tortured with electric shocks while she was imprisoned and held in solitary confinement for the first 15 days of her detention. Aayat’s appeal is scheduled to be heard before the High Criminal Court in november.

alekSeI SokoloV, ruSSIa releaSed on parole: July 26Aleksei Sokolov, a human rights defender and head of the Russian human rights organiza-tion pravovaia osnova (legal Basis), was arrested in May 2009 and sentenced after being tried on theft and robbery charges that many believed to have been fabricated. In 2010 he was sentenced to five years’ impris-onment in a maximum-security penal colony; the sentence was later reduced on appeal to three years. AI continues to monitor

Sokolov’s case as he fights to have his sen-tence overturned.

Mao HenGFenG, CHInareleaSed: July 28Human rights defender Mao Hengfeng was released from a “re-education through labor” facility where she suffered torture and severe ill-treatment. An outspoken women’s and housing rights advocate, she was detained most recently in February 2010 after protesting the trial of the 2010 nobel peace laureate liu Xiaobo.

norMa CruZ, GuateMala proSecuTion of aTTacKerS: JulyAs a result of documenting violence

against women and campaigning for justice, norma Cruz and her relatives have been repeatedly threatened and attacked. Following sustained AI action, authorities tried those

who threatened Cruz, found them guilty and fined them $1,270. they are now serving a three-year prison sentence for nonpayment.

peDro ConDorI laurente anD antonIo quISpe taMaYo, peru freed: SepTember 13peruvian trade union leaders pedro Condori laurente and Antonio Quispe tamayo were detained from January 11 to March 29 on unfounded charges of crimes against the public administration, the use of violence and resisting arrest. they were released pending trial by lima Superior Court, following an AI Urgent Action.

quIlMeS InDIGenouS CoMMunItY, arGentIna courT order SuSpended: auguST 5An Argentinean court ordered the suspension


“i wish to convey my heartfelt gratitude for your assistance and support, which have enabled me to endure this difficult stage in my life. . . . i am held not in an ordinary prison, but in a medical and corrective treatment facility for drug addicts and alcoholics . . . every correspondence from you is a kind of ‘breath of freedom’ in this dark world that refreshes my soul with feelings of hope, confidence and optimism. your messages come in handy during the most difficult moments and when life becomes particularly hard and all energy is gone—it is at such moments that i turn to your letters to re-read them again. your solidarity with me is the best reward for the time i have been here.”

—aleksei Sokolov, before he was released on parole

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of attempts to forcibly evict the Quilmes Indigenous community of Colalao del valle in northern Argentina. this decision protects four indigenous families from displacement.

jorDan BroWn, unIteD StateSTranSferred To Juvenile courT: auguST 23

A pennsylvania court ordered the immediate transfer of Jordan Brown’s case to a juvenile court for trial. this decision removes the risk of Brown, 13, being sentenced to life imprisonment

without the possibility of parole. Such a sentence, when imposed on anyone under 18 years old at the time of the crime, violates international law.

“on behalf of Jordan brown we want to thank all the many people, who in connection with amnesty international, have worked so hard and so diligently to raise people’s awareness of this situation and to encourage our public officials to send this matter to juvenile court.”

—Jordan brown’s lawyers

jaMal el-HajI, lIBYareleaSed: auguST 24 libyan activist Jamal el-Haji was freed from the notorious Abu Salim prison following seven months of incommunicado detention for demanding reform and publishing articles on foreign websites calling for anti-government protests. el-Haji was arrested by libyan plainclothes security agents in February on the pretext of causing a car accident.

al aMIn kIMatHI, uGanDa /kenYachargeS dropped: SepTember 12Kenyan human rights lawyer Al-Amin Kimathi was detained in September 2010 after traveling to Uganda to observe the court hearing of six Kenyan men suspected of involvement in bombings in Uganda.

Kimathi, the head of the Muslim Human Rights Forum, was held incommunicado for six days before being charged with terrorism and murder on September 12. He spent almost a year

in pre-trial detention, during which time the Ugandan authorities refused to provide him or his lawyers with any evidence against him.

Su Su nWaY, MYanMar (BurMa) releaSed: ocTober 12 labor activist Su Su nway, a member of the main opposition party national league for Democracy (nlD), was released as part of a larger prisoner amnesty in Myanmar. She had been serving a sentence of eight years and six months in a remote prison for taking part in anti-government protests against rising fuel and commodity prices. Her case was a focus of worldwide action during Amnesty International’s 2010 Global Write-a-thon.

ZarGanar, MYanMar (BurMa)releaSed: ocTober 12popular comedian, actor and director Zarganar, who goes by one name, was arrested in 2008 for his public criticism of the government’s failed response to Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis in the wake of Cyclone nargis, and for his efforts to distribute aid from private donors.

ZaW Htet ko ko, MYanMar (BurMa)releaSed: ocTober 12Zaw Htet Ko Ko was among those released in the prisoner amnesty in Myanmar on october 12, 2011. He was one of three members of the student group 88 Generation who took part in peaceful protests in 2007 and was serving a sentence of 11 years of hard labor.


“although i am a comedian, i am not here to make jokes. i would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to amnesty international for its aggressive campaign for the release of political prisoners in burma. i also want to request that amnesty international continues its campaign until the government of burma releases all remaining political prisoners, unconditionally.”

—ZarganarZarganar performing at Amnesty International’s Secret policeman’s Ball in new York City in March 2012

on SepTember 21, 2011 the state of Georgia killed troy Davis by lethal injection, despite profound and abiding doubt about the legitimacy of his conviction. His death was mourned by the hundreds of thousands of people around the world who had joined Amnesty International’s unprecedented campaign to stop the execution. Yet despite the tragedy of Davis’ execution, death penalty abolitionists saw the killing as a critical turning point in the movement to abolish the death penalty. Amnesty International first began campaigning on Davis’ behalf in 2007 because his case illustrated some of the deep flaws in the U.S. death penalty system: police coer-cion, racial bias, inadequate

legal representation, and an unresponsive appeals process. By the time Davis faced his fourth and final execution date, Amnesty International had collected 1 million petition signatures urging Georgia authorities to stop the execution and recruited a constellation of high-profile supporters ranging from Archbishop Desmond tutu and pope Benedict XvI to former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and former FBI Chief William Sessions. After four years of methodical organizing and coalition work on the ground in Georgia, AIUSA mounted an aggressive national social media push to bring the death penalty to the forefront of national debate.

The deaTh penalTy iS the ultimate, irreversible denial of human rights. By working toward the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, Amnesty International’s Death penalty Abolition Campaign works to end the cycle of violence created by a system riddled with economic and racial bias and tainted with human error. AIUSA campaigns to abolish the death penalty in the United States by focusing on individual cases of injustice, supporting work for death penalty repeal efforts in the states, and educating campuses and communities about the fatally flawed nature of our capital punishment system.

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Amnesty International’s tac-tics yielded excellent results. More than 170,000 new supporters joined Amnesty International’s Death penalty Abolition Campaign during and after the final days of the Davis campaign. the surge in activism bolstered the orga-nization’s legislative efforts in Connecticut and Mary-land—both “watch states” close to abolishing the death penalty. on the national

front, Amnesty International intensified its campaign on behalf of Reggie Clemons, who has remained on Mis-souri’s death row since 1993 despite serious flaws in his case and persistent doubts about his guilt; by the end of 2011, Amnesty International had issued several grassroots initiatives to pressure Mis-souri authorities to commute Clemons’ death sentence.

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more Than 105,000 people committed to work to abolish the death penalty by signing AIUSA’s “not In My name” pledge.

abouT 170,000 new SupporTerS joined the AIUSA death penalty abolition campaign list.

Three dayS afTer The execuTion of Troy daviS, 1,000 activists from across the country joined in on a conference call to learn what steps they could take to support the campaign’s ongoing work.

Troy daviS waS named one of Time Magazine’s people Who Mattered in 2011, and the story became a time Magazine top ten U.S. news story of the year. It was also the second most tweeted story in 2011 (based on tweets-per-second).

a gallup poll releaSed shortly after the death of troy Davis showed death penalty support at its lowest since 1972.

in november, The governor of oregon declared that he would not allow any executions to be carried out under his watch. Also, Illinois became the 16th state to ban capital punishment when, on March 9, 2011, Governor pat Quinn signed an abolition bill into law. AIUSA generated public support for similar abolition bills in Connecticut, Maryland and Kansas.

on december 1, 2010, The u.n. general aSSembly adopted a third resolution supporting a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, and the 109-41 vote (with 35 abstentions) reveals a greater number of member states now supporting the resolution than in 2008, when it was last considered.


amneSTy inTernaTional fought attempts by con-gressional lawmakers to reverse some of the modest improvements the obama administration has initiated in U.S. counterterrorism policy. As lawmakers sought to reauthorize the use of so-called enhanced interroga-

tion techniques (eIts) and to extend the use of indefinite detention without trial for ter-rorism suspects, AI mobilized national opposition to the proposals. After U.S. navy Seals killed osama bin laden dur-ing a May 2011 raid in paki-stan, several former members

of the Bush administration gave interviews claiming that vital intelligence obtained through waterboarding had led to the discovery of bin laden’s location. Although it soon emerged that this was not in fact the case—Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had actually successfully concealed the true identity of bin laden’s courier under torture—the proponents of eIts were nevertheless emboldened by the debate to promote the reintroduction of such measures. When the national

Defense Authorization Act (nDAA) came up for renewal in the fall of 2011, a coalition of national security hardliners led by Senators lindsay Graham (R-SC) and John McCain (R-AZ) seized the opportunity to extend the “war on terror” frame-work and mandate that all foreign terrorism suspects be transferred to Guantánamo Bay for trial by military com-mission. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-nH) sought to introduce a “torture amendment” that would allow U.S. personnel to apply the eIts banned by

president obama when he first came into office.Working in coalition with the AClU, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First and other human rights and civil liberties groups, Amnesty International rallied oppo-sition to these provisions of the nDAA. Grassroots lobbying helped to persuade enough senators to speak out against Sen. Ayotte’s amend-ment, which was ultimately withdrawn. Ayotte later told senior congressional allies that she would not try to pass such an amendment again.

the campaign was un-able to stop the passage of the detention provisions contained in the nDAA; once the bill passed both houses of Congress, AI focused on pressuring president obama to use his veto. More than 50,000 AI members took action, and although the president signed the bill into law, he did append a signing statement that made it clear that his administration would continue to favor civilian federal courts for terrorism suspects.

amneSTy inTernaTional’S Security with Human Rights Campaign works to ensure security for all by breaking the cycle of terror and torture between armed groups and states.

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in february amneSTy inTernaTional members pres-sured Switzerland to fulfill its obligations under the Convention against torture by opening an investigation into the use of torture by the Bush administration as the former president planned a visit to the country. president Bush eventually cancelled his visit.

aS former vice preSidenT dicK cheney promoted his memoir In My Time, Amnesty International mounted protests at several promotional events, including an ap-pearance on the Today Show, which attracted significant media interest and raised awareness of the importance of accountability.

ThroughouT The year The campaign collected more than 60,000 petition signatures calling for the U.S. gov-ernment to extend an official apology to Maher Arar, a Ca-nadian national who was detained while transiting through the United States and illegally rendered to Syria, where he was detained and tortured for more than a year. U.S. courts have thus far refused his right to seek remedy. AI continues to collect petition signatures on Arar’s behalf.

in SepTember amneSTy inTernaTional marked the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and launched an action calling on the U.S. government to fully fund the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, an impor-tant piece of legislation that will help ailing first respond-ers and other survivors of the September 11 attacks.

Amnesty International activists call on the U.S. government to either charge or release Guantánamo detainee Shaker Aamer outside the Department of Justice on January 11, 2011, the 9th anniversary of “war on terror” detentions at the U.S. naval Base. ©

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nortH koreaAmnesty International published satellite imagery and testimony that exposed horrific conditions in north Korea’s network of political prison camps, which hold an estimated 200,000 people. the images were published in conjunction with AI interviews of former inmates and prison guards, who revealed that prisoners are forced to work in conditions approaching slavery and are frequently subjected to torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. A comparison of the latest images with satellite imagery from 2001 indicates a significant increase in the scale of the camps. Four of the six camps occupy huge areas of land in vast wilderness sites in South pyongan, South Hamkyung and north Hamkyung provinces. video: “Hell holes”: North Korea’s Secret Prison Camps http://bit.ly/yodok

nIGerIaAmnesty International launched the eyes on nigeria website to combine satellite imagery with existing research in an innovative way. the centerpiece of the website is an interactive mapping platform that integrates satellite images and maps with text, photos and video. though the website focuses on violations within the niger Delta region, the broader eyes on nigeria project serves as a central organizing and outreach point for all Amnesty International work on nigeria, including violations outside the niger Delta region, violations of civil and political rights, violations of economic, social, and cultural rights, and violations of international humanitarian law.www.eyesonniGeria.orG

SYrIa Amnesty International’s eyes on Syria website is an interactive mapping platform that documents human rights violations, such as torture, in the context of the popular uprising in Syria. eyes on Syria is also an expression of international solidarity with peaceful protesters in Syria, providing a platform that tracks global activism in support of the protestors’ demands for basic human rights. www.eyesonsyria.orG

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ai publiShed reporTS on acceSS To maTernal healTh and sexual and reproductive rights in the USA and Sierra leone, adding to AI’s series of reports covering Burkina Faso, nicaragua, peru, and Indonesia. AIUSA activists made more than 100 visits to congressional representatives to support maternal health care legislation. AIUSA organized a congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., that featured AIUSA researcher and maternal health advocate Christy turlington Burns, and was spon-sored by Representatives John Conyers (D-MI), Diana DeGette (D-Co) and lois Capps (D-CA). AIUSA brought together leading women’s rights advocates from around the globe for XX Factor, a high -level discussion on maternal health, reproduc-tive health and violence against women held at the Ford Foundation in new York. participants included Michelle Bachelet, former president of Chile and current executive director of U.n. Women, and maternal health advocate and former first lady of Somaliland, edna Adan Ismail, who spoke about maternal health and female circumcision.

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aiuSa launched eyeS on nigeria, a website to monitor human rights viola-tions using satellite and remote sensing technologies, and gathered more than 50,000 petition signatures demanding that Shell establish a $1 billion clean-up fund for ogoniland, in the poisoned niger Delta region. AIUSA signed an amicus brief in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, a case under re-view by the U.S. Supreme Court. the brief argues that corporations can be held liable in U.S. courts for human rights violations under recognized general principles of law.

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ThiS paST year, amneSTy inTernaTional advanced legislation at the national level and continued to push governments to improve dismal maternal death rates around the world. the crisis in maternal health care, born of poverty, disenfranchisement and gender discrimination, claims the lives of more than 350,000 women in pregnancy or childbirth each year—primarily due to a lack of access to health care or health educa-tion. Improving maternal health is one of the United nations Millennium Development Goals, yet progress remains well short of the 5.5 percent annual decline needed to meet the U.n.’s 2015 target. With the 2011 publication of the one-year update to Amnesty International’s report, Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA, AI reported that comparative maternal death rates have in fact worsened since the publication of the report, with the United States now ranking 50th in maternal mortality—despite the fact that it spends more on health care than any other nation. the Maternal Health Accountability Act of 2011 remains in committee in the 112th Congress despite AI’s vigorous efforts – including garnering co-sponsorship from 61 representatives from both parties.

enDInG ForCeD eVICtIonSone of The moST wideSpread violaTionS of the human right to housing is forced eviction — the removal of people against their will from their homes or land without legal protections or safeguards. From nigeria to Cambodia to Serbia, Amnesty’s global Rapid Response to Forced evictions network (RRFen) has stopped forced evictions using traditional tools like emails and letter-writing. In 2011, Amnesty International USA laid the groundwork to join the RRFen in 2012.

Women waiting outside a health center in rural Huancavelica, peru. Access to health care in peru has been a focus of AI’s maternal health campaign. ©

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2011, The year amneSTy inTernaTional marked its 50th anniversary, was also a year of milestones for the global human rights move-ment. It is fitting that Amnesty International’s voice was front and center in the media cover-age of numerous major news developments, including the mass protest movements that swept across the Middle east and north Africa and the unprecedented international mobiliza-tion to stop the state of Georgia from executing troy Davis. As mass protest spread from tunisia to egypt, libya, Bahrain and Syria during the “Arab Spring,” our communications team was instrumental in spotlighting the findings of our researchers on the ground. AI quickly became a critical source of real-time documentation of human rights abuses committed by govern-ment forces cracking down on protest, as well as a source of historical human rights context. Among the numerous news outlets that cited AI research in their coverage of the Middle east and north Africa were The New York Times, the Associated press, The Washington Post, USA Today, and national public Radio. The Washington Post even requested to ac-company AI researchers on the ground, and two-time pulitzer prize-winning correspondent Anthony Shadid cited AI in his exemplary re-portage on the region for the new York times.our online communications team kept AI’s supporters in the digital realm informed of human rights violations across the Middle east and north Africa. AI published more than two dozen posts about developments in the region on its Human Rights now! blog, hosted Facebook chats with our regional experts, and promoted engagement opportunities to hun-dreds of thousands of supporters on Facebook and twitter.

After years of concentrated media work, Amnesty International also successfully el-evated the troy Davis death penalty case to an international news story that lasted for several days and directed international attention to our work to end the death penalty. AI combined aggressive media outreach to national and regional news organizations with an innovative new media campaign, “too Much Doubt,” that gained startling momentum on Facebook and twitter. In its December 8 issue, Time magazine named the troy Davis case as the tenth biggest news story of the year, and media organizations continue to reference the case as one that exemplifies the doubt that plagues the U.S. death penalty system. It was unequivocally the biggest news story Amnesty International has generated over the past decade. Between the announcement of troy Davis’ final execution date and his funeral, more than 7,000 media organizations cited Amnesty International in reference to the case, including 1,200 on the day of the execution. the media coverage helped AI recruit 170,000 new supporters to join our Death penalty Abolition campaign. In addition to its vigorous efforts to boost AI’s visibility during these and countless other major news developments, the online commu-nications team also launched the organization’s redesigned website—the culmination of a year-long project to improve its structure, design and functionality. the new website presents up-to-the-minute news about AI’s current human rights work and provides action op-portunities for members and new visitors alike. the new, award-winning design incorporates a versatile open-source technology that will allow for future growth and innovation.

amneSTy inTernaTional uSa’S communicaTionS Team combined traditional mass-media outreach with new-media initiatives to inform new audiences about our human rights agenda and engage them in our campaigns.

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Reasons to SeetheEGYPT IS NOT ALONE.

Fed by the example of Tunisia, whose leader

was driven from power by demonstrations last month, anger has begun to boil over, or threatens to do so, across a number of Arab countries living under authoritarian rule or, in the Palestinians’ case, in a state of intermittent conflict. While the fury has varied roots, clues to its depth are offered by snapshots of rights violations reported by Amnesty Interna-tional and Human Rights Watch in the region during the last year.

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IMPUNITY FOR ASSASSINATION has severely divided Lebanese since 2005, when Prime Minister Rafik Hariri (on poster at right) was assassinated and suspicions focused on Hezbollah, acting in concert with Syria.

HARASSMENT OF MEDIA: Lebanon's media community is robust, but some writers and bloggers critical of the army or officials are detained.

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SYSTEMATIC TORTURE and other mistreat-ment in police stations and detention centers.

SEVERE RESTRICTIONS on freedom of expression, association and assembly.

HARASSMENT by threats or prosecution, of journalists, human rights defenders and student activists who criticized the regime.

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RECURRING CONFLICT between Palestinians and Israelis — especially in and from Hamas-ruled Gaza, which Israel has tried to isolate — worsens a long-standing humanitarian and human rights crisis.

ECONOMIC UPHEAVAL: Mass unemploy-ment, extreme poverty, food insecu-rity and food price rises caused by shortages have left four in five Gazans dependent on humanitarian aid.

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Israeli restrictions and settlement activity hamper Palestinian movement in the West Bank. Rights organiza-tions cite arbitrary detentions by both Israeli and Palestinian security forces.

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A LICENSE FOR ABUSE: Syria has been under a state of emergency since 1963. Political activists, human rights defenders, bloggers, Kurdish minority activists and critics of the government encounter arbitrary arrest, prolonged detention and prison terms.

SYSTEMATIC TORTURE and other mistreatment is reported in police stations, detention centers and prisons. INEQUALITY OF WOMEN in marriage and inheritance rights is enshrined in law; the penal code allows lower penalties for murder and other violent crimes against women in defense of family “honor.”

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SYSTEMATIC TORTURE: Reports of this and other mistreatment of detainees.

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SION were imposed in September under a law leaving journalists and others liable to prosecution for “insulting” the king, the judiciary and religion.

DANGER TO WOMEN who are accused of violating a family’s honor. Twenty-four were reported to have been victims of “honor killings” by family members in 2009.

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REPORTS OF TORTURE and other mistreatment of detainees by police and prison guards include use of beatings with sticks and rifle butts, kicking and punching, and suspen-sion by the wrists and ankles. RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOMS include establishment of a court in 2009 to try cases related to the media, the confiscation of newspapers, and the use of troops to prevent publication by Al Ayyam, a large daily newspaper.

WOMEN face discrimination under the law and are subjected to early and forced marriage; they are believed to suffer high levels of violence within their families.

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A LICENSE FOR ABUSE is provided by a 30-year-old state of emergency. The authorities detain peaceful critics of the government as well as people suspected of terrorism and offenses against national security. Some are detained without charge or trial despite court orders for their release.

TRIALS of civilians are conducted before military courts, in breach of international fair trial standards and with no recourse for appeal.

SYSTEMATIC TORTURE and other mistreatment of political prisoners and individuals charged with common crimes is widespread in police cells, security police detention centers and prisons.

RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOMS include detentions of journalists and bloggers. ELECTORAL PROBLEMS in the 2010 parliamentary contests included restrictions on opposition political parties and harassment of them.

RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION: Bahais, Coptic Christians and other minorities continued to face official discrimination, including limits on reconstruction of churches.

RALLYING CRY Khaled Said is alleged to have been dragged out of an Internet cafe by plainclothes police in Alexandria and beaten to death. Said has been adopted by Egyptians as a symbol of security forces’ brutality.

ARRESTED Tawakkol Karman, a journalist, was detained for taking part in a student demonstration expressing sympathy for Tunisians.

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they did not get was a functioning Egyptian de-mocracy. The apocryphal comment about a for-eign strongman often attributed to FranklinDelano Roosevelt sums it up nicely: he may be ason of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.

History is rich with precedents. In 1959, therewas Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, darling of Ameri-can corporations and organized crime, fleeingwith an ill-gotten fortune of $300 million as FidelCastro’s troops reached Havana.

In 1979, it was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, theshah of Iran, abandoning the throne in the faceof a revolt two years after President Jimmy Car-ter toasted his country as “an island of stability.”

In 1986, the turn came for Ferdinand Marcos,ousted by the Philippines’ People Power move-ment five years after Vice President GeorgeH. W. Bush told him at a luncheon: “We loveyour adherence to democratic principles and tothe democratic process.”

The list could be extended. Since World WarII, the White House, under the management ofboth parties, has smiled on at least a couple ofdozen despots. (“Friendly Dictators TradingCards,” marketed by a California publisher inthe 1990s, featured “36 of America’s most embar-rassing allies.”)

“It used to be anti-Communism,” said David F.Schmitz, a historian at Whitman College and au-thor of two books on the American attachment todictators. “Now it’s most often moderates whostand against radicalism in the world of Islam.”

Mr. Schmitz deplores the phenomenon, whichhe believes has too often bought an ersatz stabil-ity at a very high price. By backing an autocrat,he said, America often ensures that “the politicalcenter gets destroyed, giving credence to ex-tremists’ arguments and discrediting the U.S.”

After all, the man who felled Batista, the viru-lently anti-American Mr. Castro, is still in powermore than 50 years later. Cuban-American rela-tions produced a brush with thermonuclear warin 1962, a permanently crippled Cuban economyand — well, generations of successful anti-Cas-

tro politicians in Miami and beyond.Iran, too, got mired in a new brand of undemo-

cratic rule after the shah. The United States stillfaces a hostile regime ruled by ayatollahs andprotected by a brutal, profiteering Revolution-ary Guard — tough enough to have weatheredits own Egyptian-style uprising in 2009.

The Philippines are a less dispiriting example.With a belated but definitive push from Wash-ington, the dictator there gave way to democra-cy; however imperfect, that outcome suggests

that American-backed strongmen are not inev-itably succeeded by America-hating strongmen.

But Mr. Schmitz watches diplomacy from thetranquil distance of the academy. Ask a onetimepractitioner, Zbigniew Brzezinski, PresidentCarter’s national security adviser at the time ofthe shah’s fall, and you get a very different view.No administration, he noted, starts with an idealset of international partners.

“To conduct foreign policy,” he said, “we haveto deal with the governments that exist. Andsome of those are dictatorships.”

When Mr. Brzezinski and his boss encoun-tered the shah’s dictatorship, the only otherpower centers in Iran were the Communists ofthe Tudeh Party and the mullahs of the mosques,he said. As the popular revolt against the shahgrew, he said, the Carter administration was di-vided. Some officials thought Ayatollah Khomei-ni, returning from exile, might provide a reason-able alternative. Mr. Brzezinski disagreed.

“My view was that the shah should crackdown and then begin aggressive reforms,” he re-called. He lost the argument. Three decades lat-er, the United States is trying to prevent the the-ocracy that followed from getting nuclear weap-ons. It is at least an arguable position that Mr.Brzezinski’s formula of crackdown and reform, ifit had worked, would have produced better long-term results for the rights of Iranians, as well asfor international security.

Mr. Brzezinski says Egypt’s prospects if Mr.Mubarak is toppled are brighter than Iran’s in1979: “The army is respected and has a lot ofsupport across the country. There is a middleclass of sorts. And the Muslim Brotherhood isstill under control,” reducing the risk that a theo-cratic regime would emerge.

Mr. Brzezinski was Mr. Carter’s adviser whenMr. Sadat signed the historic peace treaty withIsrael’s Menachem Begin, and while he nowsays Mr. Mubarak’s time has passed, he by nomeans considers American support for him tohave been a tragic mistake. “I would say it was agood deal for the U.S. and for Egypt,” he said.Mr. Mubarak consolidated peace in the region

and was a “modernizer” at home, he said. “His-toric change outpaced the modernizer, as oftenoccurs.”

Rashid Khalidi, professor of modern Arabstudies at Columbia and a former adviser to Pal-estinian peace negotiators, rejects this brand ofrealpolitik. The ostensible benefits the UnitedStates has derived from its backing of Mr. Muba-rak are illusory, he said: the peace betweenEgypt and Israel has not yet brought a peace be-tween Israel and the Palestinians; oppression inEgypt has actually fueled terrorism, even ifsome of its Egyptian practitioners, like Aymanal-Zawahiri, the deputy leader of Al Qaeda, havefled Egypt proper; and as is self-evident today,stability did not last.

Other cooperation has left a stain on Amer-ica’s reputation. The Bush administration sentsome terrorist suspects to Egypt, where theylater said they were tortured. Today, protestersin Cairo hold up spent tear gas canisters withAmerican labels. Such policies were “bankruptmorally and stupid politically,” Mr. Khalidi said.

“I know it’s easy to talk about American beingtrue to its values,” he said. “But you know, some-times it makes sense.”

The evolving statements from the Obama ad-ministration show officials feeling their waythrough the tricky intersection of morality andpragmatism, as they separate from an ally of 30years. Every statement from the White Houseand State Department is parsed for nuance inEgypt, in Israel and at home.

When Mr. Obama said on Tuesday that an “or-derly transition” in Egypt “must begin now,” forinstance, Mr. Brzezinski winced. “I wish he’dsaid ‘should begin now.’ ”

“It sounds like an order,” he said. “Egypt is aproud country, and Egyptians aren’t going to lis-ten to orders. They might listen to suggestions.”

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amneSTy inTernaTional’S memberShip initiatives generated momentum that was critical to the success of its human rights campaigns. the year kicked off with an in-district lobbying blitz in Illinois that helped lead to the passage of that state’s death penalty abolition bill in March. Amnesty International also engaged its members in several solidarity actions, ranging from rallies at egyptian consulates across the country to demonstrations against state-based anti-immigrant rights legislation. the 2011 Annual General Meeting in San Francisco, a celebration of the organization’s 50th anniversary, was the largest to date. More than 1,000 people attended panel discussions by some of the world’s leading human rights defenders (most of whom AI has defended over the years), took part in training sessions on media outreach and organizing, and networked with their fellow human rights activists. the week before the annual conference, nearly 350 young activists, educators, faculty advisors and local group members from across the country gathered for the milestone AI youth summit, Destination: Change our World, at the University of California, Berkeley. this event provided opportunities for young human

rights leaders (ages 14 – 25) and educators to hear from internationally renowned human rights defenders, learn about AI’s work, train to become effective leaders, and meet other like-minded students at the local, national and international levels. Activists came from 43 states and represented 105 schools and universities. over the summer months, Amnesty held training sessions to help new and veteran volunteer leaders develop expertise on our priority campaign issues and hone advocacy skills such as speaking to the media about key issues, recruiting volunteers, running meetings and doing coalition outreach. these sessions also helped activists gear up for AI’s regional conferences, which drew nearly 1,800 people who networked, shared information and learned about the latest tactics in grassroots advocacy. In another surge of grassroots activism, an estimated 100,000 people in the United States took part in this year’s Write for Rights, and participants pledged more than 265,000 letters on 15 cases. they gathered in homes, auditoriums, schools and cafes in 1,100 events across the country, joining hundreds of thousands of other letter writers in more than 80 countries—making the 2011 Write-a-thon the largest ever.

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Amnesty International USA members at the annual Get on the Bus event in new York City in April 2011.


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occupancy 2,115,794 200,024 321,091 2,636,909 2,446,631

professional fees 1,421,953 175,893 196,086 1,793,932 1,913,443

travel and meetings 1,580,292 62,689 116,241 1,759,222 2,050,999

program materials and office supplies 796,951 145,142 94,953 1,037,046 830,715

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Betsy and paul Mazurskyeric MichelsenMichael and Bonnie RothmanCarol and Harry SaloDr. Andrew M. SesslerStephen M. SilbersteinJohn v. Stevens, Jr.philippe villersMichael Walllee and peggy Zeigler

eXeCutIVe DIreCtor’S leaDerSHIp CounCIlAt the invitation of Amnesty International USA, members of the Executive Director’s Leadership Council provide leadership support, guidance and advocacy strength to advance human rights regionally and nationally.

the Dudley Foundationthe Fatta FoundationFord FoundationHumanity UnitedJoan K. Davidson (the J.M. Kaplan Fund)lawson valentine Foundationthe libra Foundationoak Foundationopen Society Foundationspiersol Foundation, Inc

proteus Action leaguethe Samuel Rubin Foundationtides Foundationtres Chicas Foundationtwo Commandments FoundationWallace Global FundWorking Assets/CReDo Grantmaking Fund of tides FoundationAnonymous Donor

FounDatIon SupportAs Amnesty International USA works to expand this relatively nascent program, we are grateful for the collaboration of our institutional donors, along with their generous financial support. While the investment of foundations in Amnesty International USA certainly helps to diversify our income and increase our sustainability, these partnerships also expand the scope of our work and fuel innovation.

Michael Macleod, ChairSteve Abrams ellen BenjaminDavid Boatwright Kristina BradySteve Daigneault

pat Flynn phyllis FreedmanSherry Frumkin Shahram Hashemi eric Michelsen

DeVelopMent CoMMItee

InDIVIDualS, FaMIlY FounDatIonS anD CorporatIonSOur special thanks go to the following individuals and family foundations for providing major gifts and financial stability to our work in fiscal year 2011.

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ed and Kathy ludwigBetsy and paul Mazurskyleslie and Mark McGauleySusan McMillameric and laura Michelsenthe Middle passage Foundationleo Model FoundationJames ModrallClark and Jane MoellerRon Moorelewis MoyseBeth MullenCarol MullerMargueritte S. Murphy and Brian Cooperthomas nagelGordon naylor and Helen StewartBob noorianJoan and peter novickJohn o’ Farrell and Gloria principevivian and paul olum Charitable FoundationGilman ordwaythe pamphalon Foundation, Inc.panaphil Foundationtom parker and Michelle GriffinpeCo Foundationnancy & Charles perkinsCharlotte perretAnne powell RileyKati and Bob RaderJohn and Connie RakoskeMarjorie l. ReedJune Reindllynnette Rhodeseric & Maria Riederslori Fields and Marlin Risingerthe philip W. Riskin Charitable FoundationBarbara D. Robypaul and Catherine RosenbergerMaureen RosenfieldRothman Family Foundationed Rounds and Callae Walcott-RoundsMolly RowanRita Rowanthe Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundationnancy and Miles Rubin

Harry and Carol SaloBetty J. SandersWilliam ScanlanSchaffner Family Foundationthe Benjamin and Sophie Scher Charitable FoundationSkipjack Fund, Shelley Scheuerthe Sandpiper Fund, Inc.Dr. Andrew M. Sesslereldar ShafirBen and norma Shapirothe Shifting FoundationAlexandra and David ShireyStephen M. Silbersteinpatricia J.S. SimpsonSusan Singhpeter and Betsy Snowlawrence and lillian Solomon Fund, Inc.Martin J. SpaldingMark and Andrea SpearsArthur and lois StainmanDeborah Starrelizabeth Steelepeter Swiftepstein teicher philanthropiesWilliam tierney and Barry WeissDr. Robin A. vandermolenMilan vetterphil and Kate villersBetsy and paul von KusterRoger WatersWeiss Fagen FundMr. and Ms. Kim Wenneslandthe Why not InitiativeDiane B. Wilseyedward and Barbara WilsonMatt & peggy WinklerAmy Woods and familyWyncote Foundation nWthe Wyss FoundationZephyr Fund

elizabeth lee AbbottHelen AckersonRobert and Kerstin AdamsDeanne l. Adamsofelia Adan-FernandezKathleen AgenaHans AgneessensMichael t. and Suzan Alexanderelizabeth Alfordedmund l. AllenDoris AltierWendy Andberg and Michael pileggileonard M. Anderson and elke MausDonald W. and Margaret AndersonMarianne AndyCraig and Joyce Antila phippsAlan M. and Helen C. Appleford

Diane C. Aragonesther ArchieAnnette A. ArenaRabih AridiBarbra Mains ArmentoDianne Armstrong DelorenzoMargie AronsonKurt AschermannJeffery S. AtwaterMarylou AvanzinoGilbert S. Avery, IIIDr. Malik A. Kaiyoom AwanCarolyn D. AyersDr. lyndon and Mrs. Betty Babcocknicholas BachelinGary l. BaileyShirley Ball

David J. BambergerMildred S. BarishCarol A. BarkerRobert Barnes and Sylvia Kashdanpamela M. Barneslinda S. BaroneMargaret l. Barshelllee BartellJohn and Shelly Barthpatricia BartlettHarold and lillian Bartonlawrence A. Basilethomas BauchRoss BaumstoneDory BeatriceJean BecketGerhard F. BeddingFloyd BennerRussell H. BennettJoan Bensonphilip l. Bereanoprof. and Mrs. paul BergDr. Doris BergenArthur BerlinerArnold BernsteinRichard A. BernsteinStephen A. Bessone

CIrCle oF lIGHt

The Circle of light honors members who have made a commitment to stop future human rights abuses wherever and whenever they occur. The following members have helped to secure the future strength of our human rights movement through a gift in their longrange plans. These individuals have provided for AIUSA in one or more of the following ways: included a bequest in a will or living trust, named AIUSA a beneficiary of a retirement plan or life insurance policy, and/or established a charitable trust or charitable gift annuity to benefit AIUSA. Please join the more than 1,000 current members who have already established a legacy to sustain the mission of AIUSA.

“We will not be scared off by imprisonment or punishment. they may arrest us, but they can’t break us. Freedom of speech is our right, as it is the right of everyone. We will continue our struggle.”jabbar Savalan, an Azerbaijani student who was released on December 26, 2011, after nearly 11 months in prison for a Facebook post calling for a “Day of Rage” protest. His case was part of Amnesty Internation-al’s annual Global Write-a-thon, which generated more than 1 million appeals on his behalf.


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“Thank you for your hard work and your campaigns to secure my release from prison. Through your work on behalf of thousands of prisoners of conscience around the world, amnesty international continues to be the conscience of humanity. you have a hallowed mission to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. your letters, phone calls, and petitions were my protection during the months i spent in solitary confinement. you were my voice when i had none.”

Birtukan Mideksa, ethiopian political opposition leader and former prisoner of conscience who was released in october 2010.

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Joan BeyerAdeline BianchiMaya and Harvey Birenbaumthomas G. BlackJohn Blairedmond BlauRobert BlizardWayne M. BlocherKathleen BlumenthalJohn Boduchthelma BoederHoward BoroughsKristin BorsenikRichard A. BorthDoyle Bortner in Memory of Alba p. Bortneredna BosletDr. D. Boulian and Ms. C. RuebuschAdele S. BowlerRuth G. BowmanJohn e. Bradshaw, Jr.ted BrandtKara BrasciaRegene Braunthe William D. Bray and Frances H. Bray Family trustemma BrierConley BrooksDr. Gary I. Brownelayne Brownemily Brownemily Halicki BrownJacquelyn BrowneRonald Bryant-DoxstaterMeghan BuhlRobert p. BurchardRobert B. p. Burns, M.D. and Cynthia R. Burns, ph.D.Kenneth H. BurrowsJohn ButlerMila Buz Reyes-MesiaJames and Charlotte CaldwellDr. peter CalingaertMr. and Mrs. Donald e. CannonRusty CantorHarriet CaplanMichael A. and Kristina M. CaplinMary Harrison Carle

leie and Sean CarmodyMary Jane CarrollDeborah G. CarstensRobert l. CarterDavid B. Chamberlinlynn and Ray ChateauRobert A. and Janet R. Chesnutnancy and William ChildIrving l. ChortekMaria Clark and Dwight GledhillIn Memory of Charles W. ‘Chig’ and evelyn e. varnerJames e. and Harriett A. ClarkCarol and tom ClarkRuth and Sam ClassGary lee Claytonnorris C. Clement and Diane BessellMarion ClementSharon Cohenelisa H. ColemanDouglas l. and lieselotte F. CollinsJane e. CombsMaryanne ConheimDorothy ConlonDennis R. Connollylaura ConnollyJack and Robert ConradMichael CooneySarah J. Cooneyedward t. CooperMatthew CooperCorinne CoopermanMichael Corrado, M.D.edward Costellovirginia M. CoupeCaroline Courtslynne and todd CowardUrsula M. CowgillMargaret Crahanpatsy CravensRoger Cravervictoria M. CreagerMaria-laura CrespoAnne S. Crosmanpeter CrossCheney Crowprudence CrowtherBob and Carol Cumbie

Dr. Stephen J. CummingsAlyson CuppsSusan v. and Robert CurtisShery Cushmanlynne CutlerGary CyganMark Da SylvaDennis einar DahlAlice and Chris Dahleedith DamanBill DanforthJames C. DaviesGilbert R. Davis and patricia K. DavisAndrew DavisJane Dawsonpeter DayGerry S. De HarvenJan De vriesDrs. Andrew G. Dean and Consuelo M. Beck-Saguéphilip Glenn DeBlockFrank M. Deffry, ph.D.noëlle Delorenicholas l. and Dolly DemosRodney Dennis and Donna leslie-Dennisnina penelope Denton, ph.D.Stacy DeruiterBruce Detwiler and Sandy WintersJamieson DeuelUrmila K. Devgonpenelope Di Micelliemily and Robert DillardAlbert R. DilleySharon DollCharles H. and Beverly A. DonaldJohn W. DonnellyGunilla S. DoremusAnne W. DorweilerMary DoychakAnne DoyleAlden DrewClifford Droke and Diane pinneyGilbert Dunne, Jr.Jimmy DunneRichard DwyerBeth edwardspat egan-Myers and Charles K. Myers

Michele and Jeffrey engelFanita englishnancy Farmer-lanzJudith FarrarDr. Jacqueline FarwellHenry FehrenbacherStuart FeiginMartha FergerJoan M. FerranteCarl Ferreenancy Dotterer Fieldphillip FieldDavid M. FineCarole A. FinkelAvis and Jeffrey FisherMarvin Fisherpaula M. Fitzmauricenancy FitzpatrickJoan l. FlandersAgatha B. and Robert B. Flemingedward Fleschvirginia FletcherWolfram and Faith FliegelJane Flinnellen l. FogleAnn e. FordhamDoris l. Fostervoldpierre FournierD’ette FowlkesCarl FrankJulian Frederickernest Fredricksmeyerestelle FreedmanJoel FreedmanDr. edward Fremouwlawrence Friedman, ph.D.Robert D. FuldRichard Furslandpeter FussJosiane and etienne GabelBill GallowayMary e. GamsonHelen A. GarciaJeneva GarrettRenata GasperiMary W. GatewoodKevin GeorgeDarcy J. Gerrard

lois M. Gillespiephyllis Gillman, ph.D. lynda M. GilmanCarol and Rolfe Gjellstadelizabeth Gjenvicknancy GlaserStanley and edith Glennphyllis and Wayne GockeFern l. GoeringGeorgia GoldenKeith Goldstein and Donna Warringtonprof. thomas K. GoldstickBea GoodmanSusan GordonJacqueline GouldBenjamin and pamela GrahamGary and patricia GraltonRuth GreenFlora GreenhootDaniel J. Greenwald, ph.D.Colette GuggenheimFred GuggenheimDavid HabermanZhila Haghbin, M.D.Carlyn Jean HaldeBarbara M. HaleScott B. HallJudith HamburgYvonne and Joseph HammerquistSandra HammersmarkMontagu Hankin, Jr.Judith HanlonKathleen S. HanoldCarol HansonRichard e. and Diane HarderMary B. Harrenellis and ellen HarrisDaniel A. Harris and Jane l. ButtarsChristopher and Sarah p. HarrisStan HartmanDennis HarveyJeffrey S. HarwoodRaymond D. HathawayMolly perkins HauckJoseph R. HaunBerttina Helmersnancy M. HenleyDavid W. Hester



A. Maren HexterFrederic HicksDr. vernon and Mrs. elice e. Higginbothamnorman Higginsonedward and Anne HillCharles K. and Mares HirchertWilliam F. Hirsch and Yvette CardozoRonald and Carol Hirshlarry HochmanMichael Hoffmand and Wendy taylorKaren M. Holgerson, ph.D.David l. Hornlucille HornerJohn Hotchin, M.D.Dee HowardMarjorie Howard-JonesWarren Howe and Janet KaronConrad HunterRev. Sharon Hunzeker and Mr. Harold HunzekerDavid and Arlene IaconoSuzanne IannucciCarol and Carl IngramRobert p. IsaacsonGrace JacksonRichard Charles JacksonDr. Walter JakubasMarvin Douglass JensenDr. Maryanne Jerometom JewellHelen Jobet-DunstanRobert and Betty JohnsonJane JohnsonJoan H. JohnsonMarilyn JohnsonMary l. R. JohnsonShirley R. Johnsonthomas J. JohnsonWilliam M. Johnson, M.D. and Marlene e. JohnsonDon and louise JohnstonRalph Jollensten and Susan BerzacJudy M. JuddJohn p. Junkroski and patricia l. MeloyGerritdina JustitzCharles Kahnnancy A. Kane

Daniel M. KaplanHelen KarlGeorge KarnoutsosClaire Karpov and Joe KarpovDr. Deborah eckstein KatzIris F. Kaufman and William M. KaufmanMarjorie KaufmanG. Armit Kaureva KaytesCarolyn KeagleSam KeenMary KeenanAnne KelemenWayne H. KellerDonald M. and Katherine Z. KellerMary KelloggDianne KellyDorothea KelseyGordon J. KendallClarence C. and Carole J. KentDaniel D. KerethA. Donn KesselheimMartha and Michael KesslerAmy Y. Kimuraphyllis Kingnancy v. KirkRichard W. KirschnerMeg KiuchiRussel and Yonah KlemRoxanne KlingerStanton Kloseedward KlunkJohn G. KochIlse KolbuszowskiJanet Kothradevera KramerMarshall Krausepatricia J. KrieglerJack A. KyleJoan S. la CroixRaymond lagerveldCarla J. lambarthRudolf lambrachtJames e. and Sue G. lamiepeter B. landeckerCarolyn A. landwehrDr. Mary laner

Anita M. laplacapaul lappeMary larsenedwin and Miriam laskerphilip and lynda lathropAlan lauerMargaret laulorHarriet lawrenceRobert p. lawrenceMercedes lawryJohn Richard leamanDon lebell, ph.D.Sema e. ledermanpatty leeellen p. and Roger leedsKay leuschnerDr. Robert levinSuzanne and Mark levinsonBrett Miller levyClifford lieheD. liftonRev. Barbara A. linderArthur lipkin and Robert W. ellsworthRev. Suzanne G. listemannSharon Starkneal lockwoodMitzi loftusRoy A. lombardGeorge and Karen longstrethMona lourieGunter and lysiane lowinsohnKathleen lucatortoJacqueline ludelRolf and Margaret ludwigDavid lukomnikeileen lumKatie lundayeileen A. lynchMichael F. MacleodMargaret t. Macneilelisabeth MacRae-BobynskyjMark J. MagenheimMary MaguireSylvia Maizellnancy Malecekeric G. MarshallAlbert Martinelizabeth Martin

tina M. MartinAnn R. Masonnorman MasonsonJeanette MastrovDr. David R. Matteson and Sandra l. MattesonKenneth and Sandra MayberryBetsy and paul MazurskyH. Coleman McGinnistoed and Maria McClainChuck McClearyJoey McCoynancy and Gregory McDanielsJoe McFarlaneCarole McMillenJohn v. MeeksBarbara MeislinRobert C. Meissnerelizabeth MelamidGeorge Mercerlinda MermanMichael Merrittemily S. MeyerHarold K. MeyerDr. Michael Denis Michaelsoneric and laura MichelsenSara MichlAnnette MillerAnstiss C. MillerHenri e. MitlerJohn H. MoeSeymour MoedAllan F. MolgaardFilippo MonetiGary MonroeJerry Moore and Birgitta AkessonJanie l. and Robert C. A. MooreHelen MooreJohn MooreGloria and Arnold MorelliMary MoseleyCathy S. MosleyJohn A. and Hatsumi I. Mosselaine MundtAlice A. MurrayCarole nagengasttima newmanSuzy v. newman

laura ngtheodore J. nicouJanet l. nivenBeatrice nobleGail and louvan noltingJohn nordgaardJaroslaw and elizabeth nyczakJames C. oberkromDonald and Margaret o’BrienJean o’Donnelleileen l. oehlerK. norah o’GradyDarcie and Christian olsonJane olsonlynn olson and Frank StoneGigi polasky oramMargaret G. orlettvelva Jeanne osbornJean owenKathryn l. owensCharlotte painterMiss Hazel palmerSherry palmerelaine parisJanice parkJohn and Margaret parkeSydney parksGilda C. parrellaG. lyndall parsonsJoanne pawlickCynthia C. payneemma pearceJon t. pearson and J. patricia GaffneyMary K. pearsonJudith peckBrian peckmanDean peermanleonard pellettirilouis pelosiRose pennRosa M. perez-Williamsnancy petersChristian petersonMarianne phelanCarol piercepenelope pinsonDr. Frances Fox pivenKaren plowden



Steve and Michelle pohlmeyerpearl porterfieldMyrna Barbara pototskyAnne thornton prendergast in Memory of nicholas thornton ChiversRobert o. preyerCamille Carnell pronovostperry pullinsJennie QuanGeorge A. Quattrone, ph.D.Barbara Alexandra Quinnpaul G. QuinnDr. virginia RaadHerbert H. and Mary p. RabeJames and elizabeth RabyCharles and Audrey RaebackHelen RaffelDavid RaikowJulissa lopez RamirezCaroline Ramsay MerriamJean RancMadalene Mary RansomMicheal J. and laila Z. RedmanBonita ReginaAllen ReichlerJo ReichlerIla l. ReiersonMarvin ResnickAnne e. RettenbergJames C. Reynoldslawrence Richettetim C. Riedler and Yung Mi ChoiBrian RinehartAnn Robb and Michel CamBarbara H. RobertsJoan K. RoblesRev. and Mrs. Donald RogersYvonne RogersSylvie RomanowskiJane A. Ronca-WashburnMichael RooneyBetty and Jack RoosaMargaret RopchanBarbara M. RoseHanni Rose in Memory of Skander najarDavid and Carol Rosenpaul l. and Marion J. Ross

Keith RossMargaret ellis Rostkowskilewis H. RothmanSara RothmullerMr. and Mrs. James RowanDr. Jane RowleyCharlotte A. RubinMarilyn A. RueblingHilda RushCarolyn S. RuskDr. Gloria D. RutgersMindy SamplinerJerome n. Scanlanlee and Stuart ScheingoldWard C. Schendel and Catherine l.B. SchendelGenevieve SchiffmannDiane H. SchilkeSusan SchindlerJermone and elizabeth Schneewindleslie elsa SchneiderMuriel Schnierowteresa SchreitmuellerStephen SchuckJohn R. SchueDouglas and Joan Schwartzelisabeth SeamanJohn and Irenne Sedgwick BriedisBarbara SegatDavid p. and elizabeth t. SegelDr. Andrew M. SesslerBurkhard SeubertJudith Shapiroleonard and Dana ShawDon Sheateri A. ShecterSarah K. Shed and Joel D. DavisSusan SheinfeldAyne Manfroi SheldonWalter SheppeMaryclaire B. SherinJim and Mai ShieldsSusan Shieldselizabeth F. ShipleyIrwin and Renee ShishkoRobert ShultzA. Joanne Siegla, C.p.A.Yvette D. Simpson

Sally Skinner-SandfordArdys H. SmithJim SmithJoel SmithMarjorie SmithSusan SmithJenella Smith emelianovDorothy SnodgrassClaudia Soleprofessor Arthur SolomonAnna SontagBeth SosnickDr. William SpadyJohn D. SpearsCherrill M. Spencerpieter J. and erna-Joan Spijkermanlenore SpindelmanDonald SpotoWard StalnakerJune C. StarckJohn Statonpearl F. SteeleJovanna SteinMarion SteiningerCookie White Stephanelinor R. Sternpeter SternJack and phyllis StevensonBarbara l. Stewart, MlSSusan StievaterCaroline StipeJeanne StoennerRalph e. and Jan R. StoneJerome and Betty StoneDaniel and Rev. Carolyn J. StrackHelen A. StrandDavid StrasserMary J. Srattner-GregoryMary B. StraussBarbara A. StriblingGaby Stuart, ph.DMaria nowakowska Stycos and Joseph Mayone StycosJohn and Sheila Suareznancy SuhrburAnita and Russy Sumariwallanorma and Julian Svedoshelliott H. Sweet

Ray C. talaniat. tappanGerda taranowphyllis and Richard taylorvictoria taylorHelen Burke thomasDavid A. thomasCassandra J. timminsWalter W. tingle and thea F. HolmesHelen toohyJuergen G. toorenBrent A. tozzerpola Fotitch triandisAndres Cartagena trocheGeorge and erika tuckerGeorgia o. turnerGreg tutunjianWilliam e. tyreeJ.R. UdvadiaMarie elizabeth UtzigGabor vermes and Ann Faganphilippe and Katherine villersCarol vogtBarbara Clare voltzMargaret voseprofessor paul Waddenphyllis WaferFlorence WagnerDr. Gloria F. WaldmanRobin A. Wallaceelinore WashburnW. earl WearJoan WeaverKathy Webbelaine WeidemannRobert and Gail WeiglMarvin J. WeinbergerMary WeinmannJudith Weisbergelizabeth WeissJoseph Weitzeelaine Frain WellsDevera and Wiley D. Wenger, Jr.Frances F. WernerAlice Reuben Weston and Andrew KopetzkyJoan WetherellBarbara Whan

Darlene and tom Whitethomas WhiteDr. Ron WhittakerDon C. and Julie WilkinMolly Willcoxpaul WillenMary Williamspeter A. WillmsJeffrey Wilsonelaine WindrichZack Winestine and Joanne pawlowskinorma WolfAlice WolfsonHelen F. WolfsonAlice H. WolpertRobert WorthingBetty and ted WurmRobert S. Wyer, Jr.Charles Yancy and Janet GreenleesDr. Michael Yokellpam YoungJan H. ZahrlyKit and Bill ZakSusan Zarbocklee and peggy ZeiglerStephen and Sally ZorichMargret Zwiebel



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larry coxSuZanne noSSel [Since January 2012]executive Director

curT goeringChief operating officer

rich grahamChief Financial officer

rachel wardDeputy executive Director of Advocacy, policy and Research

gouri SadhwaniDeputy executive Director of organizing, Membership and Campaigns

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