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Irene Khan
Irene Khan was the first woman and the first Asian to become Secretary General of Amnesty International and went on to win a clutch of awards for her work as a human rights advocate.
She explains why she thinks it’s vital for the world’s poorest women that we start to see poverty not as a straightforward economic problem but as a human rights crisis in itself.
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