Amnesty International's (AI) focus on civil and political rights has marked their work with a
gender bias from the outset. In the first comprehensive look at AI's work on women's rights
Miriam Ganzfried illustrates the development of their activities regarding women's rights
issues over twenty years. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented
access to archive material from the Swiss and the German AI sections she shows how women
activists strategized to make AI increase its work on women's rights. Additionally the book
demonstrates that despite the leadership's commitment to the Stop Violence Against Women
campaign internal resistance hampered the integration of women's rights into the
organization's overall work.
