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UPSC CSP Previous Year Paper (2015)
an agency of the United Nations to help refugees of civil wars
Incorrect Answera global Human Rights Movement
Correct Answera non-governmental voluntary organization to help very poor people
Incorrect Answeran inter-governmental agency to cater to medical emergencies in war-ravaged regions
Incorrect AnswerExplanation:
Amnesty International is a London-based non-governmental organisation founded on 1961. It objective is to achieve the people enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. It 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.
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