Amnesty International

Amnesty International is a global human rights movement that investigates and campaigns against abuses worldwide, funded by its members rather than by governments. Its annual report carries a section on India every year, and the CID graded all 49 it could find — 1973-74 through 2024-25 — as a single series. Every year scores Deficient (4.60–4.87), and the grade barely moves in five decades. The reason is structural: the India section has no codebook, almost never sources its claims inside the text, and rests on Amnesty's own field research with no independent check built in. Amnesty's real strengths — independence from the Indian government and open, member-based funding — keep the score out of the basement, but they do not fix a document that does not show its work. The grade describes one country section in a global yearbook, not Amnesty's whole institution.