Amnesty International: How Amnesty took on the UK government, and won
Executive Summary
Founded in London in 1961, Amnesty International is the world's leading human rights activist group, tackling issues all over the globe.
But in 2015, Amnesty faced a local issue.
Every 2 years, the London Arms Fair at the ExCel centre trades everything from the latest machine guns to killer drones. However, recent fairs had revealed a more disturbing development: torture equipment and other illegal weapons, like cluster bombs, being advertised for sale, all due UK government inaction and an open loophole in EU law.
This was human...