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rejection of participation in abuses of human rights and through playing a whistle-blowing role

when they do witness grave abuses occurring which are not being addressed.

Amnesty International recommends, among other things, that:

• Nursing associations and individual nurses should increase their efforts to protect and promote

human rights

• Professionalism and professional ethics should be strengthened and promoted among national

nursing associations and their members

• Security for nurses and midwives within the health services and in areas of human rights abuse
should be strengthened

• Professional and human rights training should be made more regularly available throughout a

nurse’s or midwife’s career.

Amnesty International and the health care professions

Amnesty International is an international human rights organization with nearly two million
members in more than 180 countries or territories.

Amnesty International’s mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and

ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and

expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human
rights.

The Amnesty International Health Professional Network was established more than 30 years ago

and comprises individuals, groups and networks of doctors, nurses, mental health specialists and

other health professionals in more than 30 countries.

The Network works for the goals of AI through the application of professional knowledge,

contacts, letter-writing and lobbying skills.

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