Poster power 
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Muhammad Ali – Lifetime Achievement Award (USA 1998). Rights for All campaign in the USA.
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Rope Man by Bill Guhl and Beat Knoblauch (Switzerland 1972). For the Campaign Against Torture.
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Doctors and Torture by Nja Mehdaoui (Tunisia 1992). From Arabic version of AI France publication ‘Doctors and Torture: Collaboration or Resistance’.
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Two Fists by Roman Cies´ lewicz (USA 1977). Lithograph in the Artists for Amnesty series.
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Prisoner of Conscience by Spanish painter and sculptor Joan Miró (USA 1977). Artists for Amnesty lithograph.
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All Those in Favor of the Death Penalty, Raise Your Hand (USA 1989).
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Military Officer by Colombian artist Fernando Botero (USA 1977). One of the Artists for Amnesty poster series by 15 world renowned artists.
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Freedom in the 80s poster by Yosuke Kawamura (Japan 1980).
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Who’s Living in My House? (International Secretariat 1997). Highlighting obstacles to the safe return of Bosnia- Herzegovina refugees and displaced people.
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Prisoner of Conscience by Joop Lieverst (Netherlands 1969).
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The Embrace by Juan Genovés (Spain 1976). A copy of this poster was spattered with blood during the murder in 1977 of five lawyers by gunmen. Some 500,000 copies were sold and the proceeds used to set up the Spanish branch of Amnesty International.
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State of Terror by Michael Callaghan / Redback Graphix (Australia 1987). People ‘disappeared’, tortured and killed in detention in apartheid South Africa.
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50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (USA 1998). Design: Woody Pirtle / Pentagram New York.
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Poverty Is Modern (Belgium 2009). Advertising firm Air and pixelart group eBoy created an intricate scene on AI’s ‘1 Million Clicks Against Poverty’ site.
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Syria – State of Emergency Breaks the Law (Netherlands 1983).
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They Cannot Muzzle the Light by Alain Carrier (France 1980). From Victor Hugo: ‘On ne baillonne pas la lumière’.
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Amnesty International by Nriva Kapaxalov (Greece 1979). Campaigning against political killings.
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Democracy Returns (Chile 1990). The end of 17 years of military rule under General Augusto Pinochet.
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Human Rights in Haiti (Germany 1985). Poster featuring a poem by René Depestre: ‘For centuries / I’ve written your name in the sand …’
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Freedom – watercolour by Olivur vid Neyst (Faroe Islands 1986). Amnesty section in Faroe Islands was established in 1965.
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40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Israel 1988). Exhibition at the Jerusalem Artists’ House.
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Black Hammer by French painter and filmmaker Roland Topor (USA 1977). Artists for Amnesty lithograph.
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Afghan Refugee, Peshawar (USA 2010). This child has never seen her homeland. Photograph by Steve McCurry. Design: Woody Pirtle / Pentagram New York.
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Amnesty Poster, lithograph donated by Pablo Picasso / Pentagram (USA 2000). Design: Woody Pirtle / Pentagram New York.
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Letter Writing (1980). Amnesty supporters have written hundreds of thousands of appeals and solidarity letters for victims of human rights violations.
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Paul Hill by Annie Leibovitz (USA 2000). One of the ‘Guildford Four’ released in 1989 after 15 years’ wrongful imprisonment in the UK.
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One Movement, One Message, Many Voices by Seymour Chwast (USA 1988). ‘Human Rights Now!’ campaign for the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Flight from Tyranny, lithograph by Alexander Calder (USA 1977). Another Artists for Amnesty poster for Prisoner of Conscience Year.
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Chile: 74 Murdered Trade Unionists by Ewert Karlsson (Sweden 1974). On the first anniversary of General Pinochet’s coup.
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Isolation – poster for second Campaign Against Torture (1984). With extracts from testimony by former Iranian prisoners
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Stop Torture in Afghanistan by Oyvind Raisset (Norway 1986).
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You Can’t Kill the Spirit by Wilhelm Zimmermann (Germany 1985). Freedom of expression.
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Death Penalty by Goodby, Silverstein and Berlin (USA 1987). Created when the rate of executions in the USA was accelerating.
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Do not Live in Harmony with Armed Violence (Peru 2010). Activists in Lima meditate for peace. Designed by Mexican artist Artemio Rodriguez.
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Political Prisoners, the world over (Germany 1981).
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Prisoner Behind Bars by Yamafuji (Japan 1980). For the Freedom in the 80s campaign.
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The Real Face of Turkey (UK 1980). Campaign aimed at potential tourists was overtaken by events with the military coup in September 1980.
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Prisoner in Venezuela by Eneko de las Heras (Venezuela 1990s).
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Tank Man, by Stuart Franklin / Magnum / Nouvelles Images Editeurs (France 1989). Tiananmen Square image in an Amnesty campaign on China.
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Prisoner of Conscience by O. Talla Wade (Senegal 1990).
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Woman in Sorrow (Greece 2005). A winning entry in a Stop Violence Against Women poster competition organised by AI.
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Red Terror in Ethiopia (USA 1978). One of thousands of victims killed in Addis Ababa 1977–1978.
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Tiger by Teruhiko Yumura (Japan 1980). Freedom in the 80s campaign.
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Freedom in the 1980s poster by Hasegawa (Japan 1980).
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Who is a Prisoner of Conscience? (Finland 1978).
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Amnesty International by Lemel Yossi (Israel 1995).
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Become the Torturers’ Nightmare (Belgium 2006). Apparition shows how signatures will haunt those who violate human rights.
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Human Rights are Women’s Rights (Egypt 1994).
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Football Yes, Torture No (Germany 1978). The 1978 World Cup was held in Argentina, where human rights abuses by the military regime were rife. 13 Who is a Prisoner of Conscience? (Finland 1978).
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Comments (4)
Powerful photos that send a strong message.
These are great! Some of the posters displayed at the AI have more description. Can that be added here?
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The picture of the man standing infront of the tanks is pretty powerful..
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