According to Amnesty the first four tracks will be released on December 10. A special date as it is declared International Human Rights Day.

The first cover songs include the Black Eyed Peas\' version of Power to the People, The Cure\'s take on Love, Isolation performed by Snow Patrol and Grow Old With Me by The Postal Service.

More songs, including a version of Imagine by Avril Lavigne and versions of other songs by K-Os, Sum 41, The Deftones and Duran Duran, are due for release in the new year as part of Amnesty\'s Make Some Noise campaign. A compilation album also will be released in January 2006.

The tracks will be available as downloads here for a cost of 99 dollar cents each, or the equivalent in local currency.

Amnesty Secretary-general Irene Khan said the campaign aimed to bring an awareness of human rights to a new generation:

\"After all, human rights are what make music possible — we wouldn\'t be able to create music, listen to it or dance to it without freedom of speech, expression and association.\"

Former member of The Beatles, solo artist and drummer John Lennon was shot dead by Mark David Chapman outside his New York apartment building on Dec. 8, 1980. His widow, Yoko Ono, donated the rights to his solo songbook to Amnesty in 2002 for the Imagine campaign, which asked children around the world to sing the 1971 peace classic. Said Ono:

\"It\'s wonderful that, through this campaign, music which is so familiar to many people of my era will now be embraced by a whole new generation. John\'s music set out to inspire change, just as Make Some Noise does. In standing up for human rights, we really can make the world a better place.\"

Amnesty International is the world\'s largest organization fighting for human rights, and is independent from government, corporate and national interests. It is predominantly funded largely by its 1.8 million members in 162 countries and has helped free more than 40,000 people who were unjustly imprisoned the past 40 years.