Amnesty's Avinash Kumar on challenges of heading human rights organisation

Kumar tells Geetanjali Krishna about the challenges of heading the human rights organisation in India and why he is optimistic about the future

Many would argue that 2019, the year that the government revoked the special status of a state, detained several human rights activists and journalists under a draconian Act and pushed through an amendment to the Citizenship Act that enables all irregular migrants and displaced people, except Muslims, to acquire Indian citizenship wasn’t perhaps the best time for anyone to take over the helm of Amnesty International India. Add to that Amnesty India’s ongoing troubles with the government (its Bengaluru and New Delhi offices were raided during an investigation into an alleged breach of foreign funding laws) and I’m left wondering