Irene Khan Quotes

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• There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.
• No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.
• Human security comes only with human rights and the rule of law. Human rights are the basis for creating strong and accountable states without which…
• There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.
• 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…
• It would be easy for this conflict to slip off the political agenda given how long it has been going on but for the sake…
• 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…
• As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and…
• Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.
• 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…
• 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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