16 local realities in Lazio
Defending
human rights in Lazio
From campaigns to schools, from stalls in the squares to public accountability: every area works together so that rights do not remain a declaration on paper.
Independent from governments and parties · Worldwide since 1961 · In Italy since 1975
The areas of the Lazio Structure
Choose the one that resonates with your time, your skills or your curiosity.
Global campaigns
Global and local actions to free people unjustly detained, stop torture and protect those who defend human rights.
Discover the campaigns →Human Rights Education
Programmes in schools, work-based learning, Amnesty Kids and universities: educating about rights means living them every day.
See the programmes →Networks and alliances
Alliances with civil society, local authorities, schools, universities and other Amnesty structures around the world.
Explore the network →The four pillars of the movement
Every activity of the Lazio Structure rests on these four ways of acting, part of the Amnesty International method.
Research
Independent field investigations that document human rights violations wherever they occur.
Campaigning
Appeals, petitions and urgent actions to free prisoners of conscience and stop ongoing abuses.
Education
Programmes in schools and communities so that human rights are known before they have to be defended.
Mobilisation
Activists, local groups and international networks that put pressure on institutions.
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Art. 1 (10 December 1948)
Sixty years, a single mission
The milestones that turned an appeal in a newspaper into a worldwide movement.
Amnesty International is founded
Peter Benenson publishes the appeal "The Forgotten Prisoners" in The Observer: it is the founding act of the movement.
Amnesty International Italia is founded
The Italian Section begins organising groups across the country: from then on Lazio becomes an active hub of the movement.
Nobel Peace Prize
Awarded to Amnesty International "for having contributed to securing the ground for freedom, for justice, and thereby also for peace in the world".
United Nations Human Rights Prize
The United Nations recognises the movement’s work in defence of fundamental rights around the world.
The Lazio Structure
16 local realities across Rome, Frosinone, Latina, Rieti and Viterbo: every day they bring human rights into the streets, schools and universities.
Human rights
are not somewhere else
The Lazio Structure coordinates 16 local realities across Rome and its provinces. Whatever your time or experience, there is a way to contribute that starts from your own neighbourhood.
Where do you want to start?
You don’t have to choose everything at once. Even an hour, a stall, a signature make a difference.
