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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The king's strategy seems to be that if he continues the world will forget Nepal.
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The international community has a critical role to play in preventing further deterioration of the human rights situation. They need to continue to pressure the government to respect human rights and to meet their obligations under international law - including by restoring basic freedoms such as the right to peacefully demonstrate.
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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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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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These people have committed no crime, but there is no supervision of the way they are being held,
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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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a courageous testament to his visionary commitment to fight injustice around the world.
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The special prosecutor has done very little in terms of developing a strategy of how to address (impunity).
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we resist the manipulation of fear and challenge the narrow focus of the security agenda.
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The fact that the USA, which was the world's main perpetrator for the execution of juvenile offenders, has now ended the practice should be a clear message to those remaining countries that execute children that this barbaric practice must stop.
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The definition of security must be broadened to encompass the security of people, as well as states. That means a commitment to human rights. That means recognizing that insecurity and violence are best tackled by effective, accountable states which uphold, not violate human rights,
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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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Torture should have been kept where it belonged, in the 16th century, instead of being imported into the 21st.