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Victims of their own success in recruiting stars to appear at fund-raisers, Amnesty took a six-year sabbatical from producing benefit shows in the mid-1980s as a multitude of other good causes staged charity concerts that took the limelight. Amnesty returned in 1987 with refreshed zeal. A new generation of British comedians took up the Amnesty mantle, including Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and the Spitting Image puppets. On the musical side, Amnesty show veteran Bob Geldof was joined by several newcomers including Kate Bush, David Gilmour, Joan Armatrading and Duran Duran, as well as three musicians who had recently performed for Amnesty in the USA: Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed and Jackson Browne. The two evenings of comedy and two separate nights of music at the London Palladium in March 1987 were subsequently fused into one TV special -- and the Ball continued rolling

This video provides a retrospective of music and comedy from four Amnesty International benefit performances held in 1976, 1977, 1979, and 1981.

A life study focusing on violence against women, seeking asylum, torture and the death penalty. Based on real life experiences.

"War Zone" by Sotiris Danezis was a well-known Greek TV documentary series with 83 episodes, filmed in many of the world's hot-spots and aired in prime time on Mega Channel from 2003 to 2012.

Young girls, born in different countries but grown up in Italy, face the no-recognition of their citizenship.

A portrait of Osvald Harjo.

Palden Gyatso (born 1933 in Panam, Tibet) is a Tibetan Buddhist monk who was born in Tibet in 1933. During the Chinese invasion of Tibet he was arrested for protesting and spent 33 years in Chinese prisons and labor camps. After his release in 1992 he fled to Dharamsala, (North India) in exile. He is still a practicing monk and political activist, traveling the world publicizing the cause of Tibet. This interview made by Annie Lennox has been produced in 1998 for Amnesty International.

Sayce Holmes-Lewis was assaulted by the Metropolitan Police at age 14, and since then he has been stop-and-searched over 30 times. Holmes-Lewis spoke to Insider about his experiences and the racism within UK policing. He now runs training sessions for police officers to change the way they interact with the public, and he is the founder and CEO of Mentivity, a mentoring organization for young people.

Investigative journalist, Bobby Pathak, has investigated a number of mosques run by high profile national organisations that claim to be dedicated to moderation and dialogue with other faiths. But reporting undercover he joined worshippers to find a message of religious bigotry and extremism being preached. The investigation reveals Saudi Arabian universities are recruiting young Western Muslims to train them in their extreme theology, then sending them back to the West to spread the word. Saudi-trained preachers are also promoted in DVDs and books on sale at religious centres and sermons broadcast on websites. These publications and webcasts disseminate beliefs about women such as: "Allah has created the woman deficient, her intellect is incomplete", and girls: "By the age of 10 if she doesn't wear hijab, we hit her," and there's an extreme hostility towards homosexuals. And the Dispatches reporter discovers that British Muslims can ask for fatwas, religious rulings, direct from the top religious leader in Saudi Arabia, the Grand Mufti.

A young Muslim man and an elderly Christian paths cross in a crowded British institution. Do their respective faiths make them friends or enemies? A short film about extremism, torture, courage and redemption.