Peter James Henry Solomon Benenson (July 31, 1921 - February 25 2005) was an English lawyer and the founder of human rights group Amnesty International (AI). Wikipedia
When Peter Benenson, in 1960, first conceived his idea of freeing prisoners of conscience by a letter-writing campaign, he was thought just as foolish. www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3714949
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Peter Benenson , the founder of Amnesty International, was 83. He was born into a world without the United Nations. Not a single international human rights treaty was in existence. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights had yet to be written. There www.amnestyusa.org/page.do?id=1101182
Peter Benenson founded Amnesty (later Amnesty International) in 1961 and thereby became the creator of a human-rights movement which now counts more than a million members in 150 countries. His warmth and generosity of spirit gained him friends round the www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-benenson-4851...
The man who made perhaps the greatest contribution to peace, though, was not anyone of these "great names" - indeed, many people have probably never heard of him. He would not rank himself among the greatest peace heroes of the twentieth century. Noneth www.wagingpeace.org/menu/programs/youth-outreach/peace-he...