Posted on 05/26/2005 10:49:45 AM PDT by quidnunc
A Muslim woman is Secretary General of Amnesty International and she introduced the instantaneously notorious report on human rights so biased against the US (calling Guantanamo Bay our American "Gulag") that no less than the Washington Post took exception to its contents and bias in an editorial.
Her name is Irene Khan and her bio can be found here. Do you think she might be a little biased?
Irene Zubaida Khan joined Amnesty International as the organization’s seventh Secretary General in August 2001.
Taking the helm in Amnesty International as the first woman, the first Asian and the first Muslim to guide the world’s largest human rights organization, Irene brought a new perspective to the organization. As an individual, she brought experience and enthusiasm for putting people at the heart of policy.
Irene took up the leadership of Amnesty International in its 40th anniversary year as the organization began a process of change and renewal to address the complex nature of contemporary human rights violations, and confronted the challenging developments in the wake of the attacks of 11 September.
In her first year in office, Irene reformed AI’s response to crisis situations, personally leading high level missions to Pakistan during the bombing of Afghanistan, to Israel/Occupied Territories just after the Israeli occupation of Jenin, and to Colombia before the Presidential elections in May 2003. Deeply concerned about violence against women, she called for better protection of women’s human rights in meetings with President Musharraf of Pakistan, President Lahoud of Lebanon and Prime Minister Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh. She has initiated a process of consultations with women activists to design a global campaign by Amnesty International against violence on women.
Irene has been keen to draw attention to hidden human rights violations. In Australia, she drew attention to the plight of asylum seekers in detention. In Burundi, she met with victims of massacres and urged President Buyoya and other parties to the conflict to end the cycle of human rights abuse. In Bulgaria, she led a campaign to end discrimination of those suffering from mental disabilities.
Interested in working directly with people to change their lives, Irene helped to found the development organization, Concern Universal, in 1977, and began her work as a human rights activist with the International Commission of Jurists in 1979.
Irene joined the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1980, and worked in a variety of positions at Headquarters and in field operations to promote the international protection of refugees. From 1991-95 she was Senior Executive Officer to Mrs. Sadako Ogata, then UN High Commissioner for Refugees. She was appointed as the UNHCR Chief of Mission in India in 1995, the youngest UNHCR country representative at that time, and in 1998 headed the UNHCR Centre for Research and Documentation. She led the UNHCR team in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia during the Kosovo crisis in 1999, and was appointed Deputy Director of International Protection later that year.
Irene studied law at the University of Manchester and Harvard Law School, specialising in public international law and human rights. She is the recipient of several academic awards, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, and the Pilkington "Woman of the Year" Award 2002.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGORG100102002
Interesting. So why hasn't the media included this important detail?
Because they are the most dangerous Enemy Within ever.
Thanks for the good post. It explains a lot.
A Muslim.
As AI's sec general?
Oh sh*t...
Like the American Communist Lawyers Union, Amnesty International is in the business of protecting terrorists and demeaning America.
Today's Washington Post has a great, albeit surprising editorial about how silly Amnesty International has become.
I just burst out laughing when I heard she was a muslim AND a woman. Would this be like: "Say as we tell you or you'll get stoned".
Good post quidnunc. That was news to me too!
Irene studied law at the University of Manchester and Harvard Law School, specialising in public international law and human rights. She is the recipient of several academic awards, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, and the Pilkington "Woman of the Year" Award 2002.
...All very Liberal organizations, especially Harvard Law School and the Ford Foundation.
-Regards, T.
The UN is the perfect place to recruit America haters.
Oh, wait, that's what they do to Muslim women in Muslim countries, not in America where we have freedom of speech and religion and womens rights. Silly me...
So if she is a good muslim woman, why is she opening her mouth. Doesn't she have a husdand to do that for her?
When did she have meetings with the Taliban and the government of Saudi Arabia on the protection of women's human rights.?
Financial supporting these maggots is unbelievable.
"Interesting. So why hasn't the media included this important detail?"
Because both the media and Amnsety International are agenda driven political organizations that place their agenda ahead of whatever 'front' activity they pretend to be engaged in.
Amnesty International and any organization which supports them (including International red Cross) need to be treated as Terrorist Organizations.
RamS
Let a survivor of a real gulag or Dachau say that and I might listen. But I won't have to because they won't.
GITMO is almost a luxury hotel compared to most of the third world. Oh yeah, their movements are restricted. Could it be that many of these guys were once highly trained and highly motivated assasins and soldiers of Islam?
You expressed what I was thinking too.
Congressman Billybob
Oh, wait, that's what they do to Muslim women in Muslim countries, not in America where we have freedom of speech and religion and womens rights. Silly me...
Those apparently aren't violations of a person's rights. Only incarcerating terrorists and interrogating them to save innocent lives is a horrid violation of their rights. Beating them and oppressing them would not be, so it seems.
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