Ann Wright/Coleen Rowley: Amnesty’s Shilling for US Wars
from Consortium News:
Amnestys Shilling for US Wars
June 18, 2012
For decades, Amnesty International has been a respected name in the cause of human rights, but its recent hiring of Suzanne Nossel, a longtime U.S. humanitarian interventionist, has swung the organization more behind the Afghan War and the use of U.S. military force, Ann Wright and Coleen Rowley write.
By Ann Wright and Coleen Rowley
The new Executive Director of Amnesty International USA Suzanne Nossel is a recent U.S. government insider. So its a safe bet that AIs decision to seize upon a topic that dovetailed with American foreign policy interests, womens rights in Afghanistan, at the NATO Conference last month in Chicago came directly from her.
Nossel was hired by AI in January 2012. In her early career, Nossel worked for Ambassador Richard Holbrooke under the Clinton Administration at the United Nations. Most recently, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Organizations at the U.S. Department of State, where she was responsible for multilateral human rights, humanitarian affairs, womens issues, public diplomacy, press and congressional relations.
She also played a leading role in U.S. engagement at the U.N. Human Rights Council (where her views about the original Goldstone Report on behalf of Palestinian women did not quite rise to the same level of concerns for the women in countries that U.S.-NATO has attacked militarily).
Nossel would have worked for and with Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Samantha Power and Susan Rice, and undoubtedly helped them successfully implement their Right to Protect (R2P) otherwise known as humanitarian intervention as well as the newly created Atrocity Prevention Board. ....................(more)
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http://consortiumnews.com/2012/06/18/amnestys-shilling-for-us-wars/