Irene Khan

Irene Khan
Irene Zubaida Khanis a Bangladeshi lawyer who served as the seventh Secretary General of Amnesty International from 2001 to 2009). In 2011, she was elected Director-General of the International Development Law Organizationin Rome, an intergovernmental organization dedicated to the promotion of the rule of law. She is also a consulting editor of The Daily Star...
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth24 December 1956
CitySylhet, Bangladesh
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Over the past ten years systematic violations of United Nations arms embargoes have met with almost no successful prosecutions. Unscrupulous arms dealers continue to get away with grave human rights abuses and make a mockery of the UN Security Council's efforts.
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Over the past 10 years, systematic violations of U.N. arms embargoes have met with almost no successful prosecutions.
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Mexico has taken a very strong and positive stand on human rights issues internationally but there is not the same intensity ... domestically,
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a courageous testament to his visionary commitment to fight injustice around the world.
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Here you have these soldiers who have committed human rights abuses in Nepal being paid to go somewhere else and prevent abuses.
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These people have committed no crime, but there is no supervision of the way they are being held,
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The major human rights concern that we continue to have is the endemic human rights problems at the level of the state, ... That is the level at which the majority of the population come into contact with abuses by authorities.
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On top of wide spread abuses of human rights related to the conflict, the government has restricted basic civil liberties over the last year, causing the situation to deteriorate further.
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Finland has been a great supporter in the disarmament campaign. You have a remarkably low number of refugees and the number of cases of violence against women in Finland is extremely high for a European country.
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Over a decade of conflict we have seen the human rights situation steadily worsening, with increasing numbers of civilian killings and injuries and, for a time, the highest number of reported 'disappearances' in the world.
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Torture should have been kept where it belonged, in the 16th century, instead of being imported into the 21st.
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The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
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Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of their full human rights because of their colour, race, ethnicity, descent or national origin.
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There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.