A candle surrounded by barbed wire. A flame that “doesn’t burn for us but for all the people we were not able to save from prison, as well as all those who were killed, tortured, kidnapped or who have disappeared.”
A lighted candle is the symbol chosen to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International, an international human rights organization that counts over 2,800,000 members in more than 150 countries. Fifty years after its foundation, Amnesty (which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977) continues to work for “a world which safeguards the rights of every person sanctioned by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and similar documents.”
Its mission is expanding and strengthening, in keeping with the motto of its founder, Peter Benenson, who said: “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”