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(a) An NGO to campaign for the protection of human rights all

over the world.

(b) It prepares and publishes reports on human rights to

research and advocate human rights.

(c) Governments are not always happy with these reports since

a major focus of Amnesty is the misconduct of government

authotities.

6. Human Rights Watch

(a) Another international NGO involved in research and

advocacy of human rights.

(b) The largest international human rights organisation in the

US.

(c) It draws the global media's attention to human rights

abuses.

(d) It helped in building international coalitions like the

campaigns to ban landmines, to stop the use of child-soldier

and to establish the international criminal court.