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Irene Khan

Secretary General of Amnesty International. Born in Bangladesh, she is the first Asian woman to head Amnesty International. She won the Sydney Peace Prize in 2006, and her book, out in the US today, is called The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights.

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