BIOLOGY 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Peter Benenson, Coeliac Disease

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOLOGY 1A03
• Professor: Alastair Tracey

Document Summary

Founder of the amnesty international in 1961. In 1960, read a newspaper article about two portuguese students who were sentenced for seven years imprisonment for drinking a toast to freedom, months later he launched his appeal for. Amnesty with a front-page article titled "the forgotten prisoners" in the observer newspaper. In 1966, he retired temporarily from the organization to devote himself to the more private pursuits of prayer and writing. He founded a society for people with coeliac disease - a condition from which he suffered himself. With the goal of increasing awareness of, and knowledge about, the illness. In the 1980s he became the chair of the newly created association of christians against torture and in the early 1990s organised help for the orphans of nicholae ceaucescu"s romania. The son of flora and british army colonel john solomon, peter benenson was born on 31 july. Studied history in eton and oxford and become a lawyer.