6 juni Van Vollenhovenlezing over ‘The Rule of Law’
Irene
Khan, directeur-generaal van International Development Law Oganization,
verzorgt op donderdag 6 juni de Van Vollenhovenlezing getiteld ‘From
the Rule of Law to a Culture of Justice: a Practitioner’s Challenge to
Policy Thinkers’. Khan is internationaal expert op het gebied van
mensenrechten, vooral gender- en sociale rechten. En van 2001 – 2009 was
zij secretaris generaal van Amnesty International.De lezing wordt jaarlijks georganiseerd door het Van Vollenhoven Instituut in samenwerking met het Grotius Centre ter herinnering aan Cornelis van Vollenhoven, hoogleraar te Leiden van 1901 tot 1933, bekend geworden door zijn baanbrekende analyses van de rechtsontwikkeling in Nederlands-Indië en zijn indrukwekkende bijdrage aan het internationaal publiekrecht.
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Controversy
In February 2011, newspaper stories [6][7][8] in the UK revealed that Khan had received a payment of UK £533,103 from Amnesty International following her resignation from the organisation on 31 December 2009.[1] This was discovered in Amnesty's records for the 2009–2010 financial year. The sum paid to her was in excess of four times her annual salary of £132,490.[1] The deputy secretary general, Kate Gilmore, who also resigned in December 2009, received an ex-gratia payment.[1][9]Peter Pack, the chairman of Amnesty's international executive committee, said on 19 February 2011, “The payments to outgoing secretary general Irene Khan shown in the accounts of AI (Amnesty International) Ltd for the year ending March 31st 2010 include payments made as part of a confidential agreement between AI Ltd and Irene Khan.”[9] “It is a term of this agreement that no further comment on it will be made by either party.”[1] On 21 February Pack issued a further statement, in which he said that the payment was a “unique situation” that was “in the best interest of Amnesty’s work” and that there would be no repetition of it.[1] He stated that "the new secretary general, with the full support of the IEC, has initiated a process to review our employment policies and procedures to ensure that such a situation does not happen again."[1] Pack also said that Ammesty was “fully committed to applying all the resources that we receive from our millions of supporters to the fight for human rights.”[1] In a statement[10] released by Pack following the media coverage of the story, he described the decision to award the payment to Khan as the “least worst option.”[11] Philip Davies, the Conservative MP for Shipley, decried the payment, telling the Daily Express, “I am sure people making donations to Amnesty, in the belief they are alleviating poverty, never dreamed they were subsidizing a fat cat payout. This will disillusion many benefactors.”[9]
On 14 March 2011, Irene Khan resigned as UK Charity Commissioner, a public office she had taken in early 2010 after leaving Amnesty. She said she had lack of time due to overseas commitments. Some had questioned Khan's appointment to the board of the charity regulator in the aftermath of the payment scandal. Announcing Khan’s resignation from the Charity Commission, Nick Hurd, Minister for Civil Society, said: “Charities have a critical role to play in the Big Society and the Charity Commission, as the independent regulator has the important job of supervising the sector and preserving public confidence in charities.”[12]
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