For Benenson, as for Malik, the appropriate response to human rights violations was individual spiritual transformation, not collective political action. … Benenson himself came out of the Catholic NGO Pax Christi, and he took inspiration from the 'wish' of Frank Buchman's anti-communist, Christian 'Moral Re-Armament Movement' (MRA) 'to change people, and especially leading people'. … Amnesty's human rights had little in common with the programme of economic self-determination and violent anti-colonial struggle promoted by diplomats from postcolonial societies in the UN during the same period.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 351