irene khan's book is titled "the unheard truth: poverty and human rights". i know they had some in the lobby. irene khan has 25 minutes to spend with us and we want to ask many of your questions. we are walking around handing out cards if you would like one to write your question down. let's begin by asking you. human-rights and having effective change that comes from that, would that require a whole new set of policy at the national international level to be created for could you somehow make that link and have it already applied for existing human-rights treaties that countries have already ratified? >> there are a couple things that would be progress. one would be for the united states to recognize the economic, social and cultural rights and for china to recognize them. that is part of amnesty's dignity campaign. our goal is to get these countries to recognize these. so that we have a unified vision of human rights. the second step would be to get the international community that has invested so much money into development through the millennium develop

nice to. >> irene khan, it's great to have you here. i know you have a little talk that you have planned for the audience tonight. welcome. >> thank you very much. i thought i would just speak a little bit about the book and through the book about also amnesty's campaign to demand dignity. and i began -- sidey we have to this st because i don't want you to hear that cracking malaise. i begin my book actually at the beginning. in fact with my berth in my grandmother's house, and my mother is actually here in the oddest is it is a particular privilege to acknowledge her. i was at the same time i was born in that house another beebee was also born, and that was a child of my grandmother's made, and if i can read from the book 50 years ago to babies were born around the same time in my grandfather's house. one was a girl, myself, the other was a boy born to my grandmother's made. growing up as children the same household we often played together. i remember as a great child came to draw pictures to make toys out of tin cans and pieces of st