Launching the Demand Dignity Campaign with Amnesty International

Jared Feuer, Kristi Wooten, Nancy Bauer, Will Cordery © J.R. Ward II Photography

Amnesty International staff members Jared Feuer and Will Cordery hosted a private reception for Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan on October 30, 2009 at the Four Seasons Hotel in midtown Atlanta. Khan’s visit was part of a national tour to promote the launch of Amnesty’s new Demand Dignity Campaign, which puts rights at the center of poverty eradication and seeks equal rights protection for all people.

The intimate gathering was a Who’s Who of Atlanta’s human rights activists, including top-level representatives from The King Center, CARE, the Atlanta Film Festival, the Center for Civil and Human Rights, and other civic and nonprofit groups.

Irene Khan with CNN's T.J. Holmes © J.R. Ward II Photography

Emceed by CNN’s T.J. Holmes, the presentation featured an introduction video by fellow CNN journalists Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, as well as a moderated Q&A with Khan. Khan also talked about and signed copies of her new book, The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights, which exerts the premise that framing poverty in human rights terms will yield concrete and timely results for people grappling with the economic crisis in the US and around the world.

Khan was also interviewed by Holmes on CNN the following morning. Click here for the transcript of that interview. For more information about Amnesty International, click here.