Editing Agnès Callamard (section)

== Career ==
[[File:Agnès Callamard (cropped).jpg|thumb|Callamard in 2011|262x262px]]
Callamard has conducted human-rights investigations in a number of countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.<ref name=ABSCBNNews-WikiDefaced-2017>{{cite news|last1=Vibar|first1=Ivy Jean|title=UN rapporteur's Wikipedia page defaced upon visit to PH|url=https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/05/05/17/un-rapporteurs-wikipedia-page-defaced-upon-visit-to-ph|work=[[ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs|ABS-CBN News]]|date=5 May 2017}}</ref> She has published in the field of human rights, women's rights, refugee movements and accountability. Callamard has worked extensively in the field of international refugee movements, including work with the Center for Refugee Studies in Toronto.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Police Brutality in the United States: A Conversation with Agnes Callamard, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions |url=https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/police-brutality-united-states-conversation-agnes-callamard-un-special-rapporteur- |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy |language=en}}</ref>

In May 2017, Callamard attended a conference in the [[Philippines]], which was followed by her Wikipedia page being vandalized.<ref name=ABSCBNNews-WikiDefaced-2017 /><ref name=CNN-UPhilippines-2017>{{cite news|last1=Cabato|first1=Regine|title=Malacañang slams visit of UN rapporteur to PH|url=http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2017/05/05/Malacanang-slams-Callamard-visit.html|work=[[CNN Philippines]]|date=5 May 2017|language=en|access-date=5 May 2017|archive-date=16 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216033401/http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2017/05/05/Malacanang-slams-Callamard-visit.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Callamard stated that the visit was not in an official capacity.<ref name=OHCHR-PhilippinesVisit-2017>{{cite news|last1=Callamard|first1=Agnes|title=Special Rapporteur rejects misinformation about her current academic visit to Philippines|url=http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21588&LangID=E|work=[[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights|Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)]]|date=5 May 2017}}</ref>

===Amnesty International===
From 1998 to 2001, Callamard was Chef de Cabinet for the Secretary General of [[Amnesty International]] and the organisation's Research Policy Coordinator.<ref name="Agnès Callamard">{{Cite web |title=Agnès Callamard |url=https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/about/experts/agnes-callamard/ |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=Global Freedom of Expression |language=en}}</ref>

In January 2013, Callamard tweeted that Israel was responsible for the death of [[Yasser Arafat]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Jerusalem|first=Anshel Pfeffer|title=Israel leaks Amnesty report on 'apartheid' against Palestinians|newspaper=[[The Times]]|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/israel-leaks-amnesty-report-on-apartheid-against-palestinians-wddlmhvqx|access-date=2022-01-31|issn=0140-0460}}</ref> In April 2021, Amnesty International released a statement that the tweet was “written in haste and is incorrect," and did not reflect of the position of Amnesty or Callamard.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Daventry|first=Michael|date=15 April 2021|title=Amnesty International chief retracts 'Israel murdered Arafat' claim|work=[[Jewish News]]|url=https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/amnesty-international-chief-retracts-israel-murdered-arafat-claim/|access-date=18 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Keyser|first=Zachary|date=16 April 2021|title=Amnesty denounces S-G's tweet that alluded Israel assassinated Arafat|work=[[The Jerusalem Post]]|url=https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/amnesty-denounces-s-gs-tweet-that-alluded-israel-assassinated-arafat-665357|access-date=18 April 2021}}</ref> ''[[Jewish News]]'' wrote "[t]he tweet was still available on Callamard's account".<ref name=":0" />

===Other work===
In 2001, Callamard was the founding director of the [[Humanitarian Accountability Partnership International]], where she oversaw field trials in [[Afghanistan]], [[Cambodia]] and [[Sierra Leone]] and created an international self-regulatory body for humanitarian agencies committed to strengthening accountability to disaster-affected populations. She was in this position until 2004.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-04-01 |title=Agnes Callamard |url=https://dartcenter.org/bio/agnes-callamard |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=Dart Center |language=en}}</ref>

In October 2004, Callamard took the position of Executive Director of [[Article 19]], an international human-rights organization.

In November 2013, Callamard was appointed Director of [[Columbia University]]'s Global Freedom of Expression initiative.<ref name="Agnès Callamard"/>

In 2016 she was nominated by France to become the fourth [[OSCE]] Special Representative on Freedom of the Media. Despite being a popular choice to replace [[Dunja Mijatović]] her nomination was strongly opposed by Russia and other eastern European countries.

===United Nations===
Callamard was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, appointed by the [[UN Human Rights Council]] resolution A/HRC/RES/35/15 of 22 June 2017 for a 3 years mandate and finishing on 31 March 2021.<ref name=OHCHR-PhilippinesDrugs-2016>{{cite news|last1=Vukovic|first1=Brenda|title=UN experts urge the Philippines to stop unlawful killings of people suspected of drug-related offences|url=http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20388|work=[[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights|Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)]]|date=18 August 2016|format=Press release}}</ref> In 2019 she led the [https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Executions/Pages/Inquiry.aspx human rights inquiry] into the [[Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi|assassination]] of Saudi journalist [[Jamal Khashoggi]]. Her findings were presented to the UN Human Rights Council in June 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-crown-prince-of-saudi-arabia/transcript/? |title=The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=pbs.org |access-date=1 October 2019}}</ref> After the report was published, she said that a senior Saudi official twice threatened to have her killed if she was not reined in by the UN.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kirchgaessner|first=Stephanie|date=2021-03-23|title=Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/23/top-saudi-official-issued-death-threat-against-uns-khashoggi-investigator|access-date=2021-03-23|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

She concluded that the drone strike on Iranian General [[Qasem Soleimani]] was unlawful as part of advance version of her report on "Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions" for the Forty-fourth session of the Human Rights Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53345885|title=Qasem Soleimani: US strike on Iran general was unlawful, UN expert says |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= 9 July 2020|website=[[BBC]] |access-date=11 July 2020}}</ref>

=== Amnesty International ===
She returned to [[Amnesty International]] after twenty years, as Secretary General, in March 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=International |first=Amnesty |date=2021-03-29 |title=Amnesty International appoints new Secretary General |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/03/dr-agnes-callamard-appointed-as-secretary-general-of-amnesty-international/ |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=Amnesty International |language=en}}</ref> She leads the organization's human-rights work and is its chief spokesperson. She is responsible for providing overall leadership of the International Secretariat, including setting the strategic direction for the organisation and managing relations with Amnesty International's national entities.