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Ian Martin

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Ian Martin has spent decades working at international organizations to promote human rights and peace. He has served as Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in East Timor (1999), Nepal (2007-2009), and Libya (2011-2012). He has also served in peace operations and human rights missions in Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Ethiopia/Eritrea. Martin was secretary-general of Amnesty International from 1986 to 1992. He worked for the Ford Foundation in Islamabad and Dhaka during the last year of undivided Pakistan and the first year of independent Bangladesh (1970-1972).
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