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Salil Shetty has been the director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign

United Nations Millennium Campaign

The United Nations Millennium Campaign is a UN campaign unit that was set up in response to the Millennium Declaration signed by 189 member states. Established in October, 2002, the UNMC aims to increase support to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and seek a coalition of partners for action...

since October 2003. Before joining the UN, he served as the Chief Executive of ActionAid

ActionAid

ActionAid was founded in 1972 as a child sponsorship charity when 88 UK supporters sponsored 88 children in India and Kenya, the focus primarily being to provide children with an education. Global accounts are now reported in Euros and in 2007 and 2008 turnover was close to 180m Euros...

. He is an Indian national.

Amnesty International

On 21 December 2009, Shetty was appointed as the next Secretary General of the human rights organization Amnesty International

Amnesty International

Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...

. He started in July 2010, succeeding Irene Khan

Irene Khan

Irene Zubaida Khan is a Bangladeshi human rights activist. She was the seventh Secretary General of Amnesty International until her resignation on 31 December 2009. She was appointed as a member of the Charity Commission of England and Wales on 1 January 2010 but resigned after a controversy over...

External links

Salil Shetty, Director, UN Millennium Campaign
Press release, Amnesty International
Riz Khan - Making human rights universal - interview with Salil Shetty on Al Jazeera English

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