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Salil Shetty

Salil Shetty

Indian human rights activist and former secretary-general of Amnesty InternationalWikipedia

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Oct 12, 2026

Kumi NaidooHOST
30:28
He said, we need to ask ourselves the question about what really is the role of international civil society in the current moment, based on their performance and delivery and so on.
Kumi NaidooHOST
30:42
So what do you think, especially northern civil society, because very little, my predecessor at Amnesty International said, Salil Shetty said, I have come, when he came to visit me when I was the head of Greenpeace, he said, oh, I've come to understand why all these international NGOs call themselves Greenpeace International, Oxfam International, Amnesty International, is that they are trying to mask how un-international they actually are.
Kumi NaidooHOST
31:13
Okay.
Kumi NaidooHOST
31:14
But what his question was, these institutions often have more voice than the 88% of civil society in the global south to have voice at the UN or World Bank or IMF and given where these institutions are based.

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