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HARDtalk: Salil Shetty, Secretary General, Amnesty International

12/07/2011

Salil Shetty, Secretary General, Amnesty International

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Salil Shetty, Secretary General, Amnesty International

Receiving criticism for its values and strategy, has Amnesty has lost its way?

Stephen Sackur talks to Salil Shetty, head of Amnesty's International Secretariat, and asks whether one of the world's highest profile campaign organisations has lost its way.

This year Amnesty International reaches a milestone - 50 years of campaigning on behalf of prisoners of conscience and speaking out for freedom. However, the group's values and strategy have come under fire from both insiders and outsiders. Rather than collective satisfaction, the fiftieth birthday is marked by soul searching.

HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur talks to Salil Shetty, head of Amnesty's International Secretariat, and asks whether one of the world's highest profile campaign organisations has lost its way.

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