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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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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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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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.
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Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why human rights must not be ignored but given even greater prominence in times of economic crisis.
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No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.
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I hate to call it crossfire, what the rapid action battalion attributes for the custodial deaths, as there must be two parties in any such incident. But the reality is the just found body of the victim.
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The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by the army. China continues to provide military equipment.
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We feel Australia has a very important role to play in the region, but it cannot do that if it doesn't practise what it preaches in its own territory,
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You don't know what will make it your turn to be detained next and if you are in detention you don't know what it will take to get released.
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we resist the manipulation of fear and challenge the narrow focus of the security agenda.