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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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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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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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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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 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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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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No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.
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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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There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.
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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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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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There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.
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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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The special prosecutor has done very little in terms of developing a strategy of how to address (impunity).