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DECISIONS FROM ICM 2001
The 2001 International Council Meeting (ICM) met in Dakar, Senegal, making a number of decisions regarding Amnesty's mandate and other key policy issues. Here are some key highlights:
- The Amnesty international (AI) statute has been amended to state that AI's work is "focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of promoting all human rights." In addition, it was decided that the movement will use the next four years to prepare for a decision at the 1995/1996 ICM on whether the statute should be further amended to state that AI opposes grave abuses of all human rights.
- AI will now under limited circumstances be able to call for boycotts and advocate the imposition or lifting of sanctions.
- The full range of campaigning techniques available to AI may now be applied to international financial institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
- AI will now campaign on key themes (e.g., the death penalty, prison conditions, or children's rights) on a long-term or permanent basis.
- Amnesty international Sections may now, with the approval of the International Executive Committee (IEC), oppose specific human rights abuses in their own country. In addition, pilot projects will be undertaken on Sections researching human rights abuses in their own country.
For more information about ICM decisions and changes to the Mandate, follow this link to the AIUSA Members page.
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