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Agnès Callamard does not want to see a "
return to her roots
" in her appointment on Monday as Secretary General of Amnesty International.
Two decades earlier, this 56-year-old Frenchwoman, a human rights specialist who worked for Columbia University and the United Nations, was already working there as chief of staff for the secretary general at the time, the Senegalese Pierre Sané.
But when she officially takes up her post at the London headquarters of the venerable non-governmental organization, this valuable and foundational experience will be a thing of the past.
“
I have changed a lot
,” she says, “
and I think Amnesty has changed a lot too.
"
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Her career as an activist, forged during studies undertaken at the African-American University of Howard, near Washington DC, took her to the refugee camps of Malawi and the slums of Pakistan, then behind the scenes of the Arab Spring. in Tunisia.
She became aware of the demands for
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