Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty questions the credibility of world leaders during the BBC World debate from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Salil Shetty is absolutely correct, though I think it may be that we’ve had brief periods in history when leadership improved, and we’ve been in a low period. Perhaps what we have now is a knowledge deficit – which is a threat internationally given the state of information technology. Our under-educated voters are easily manipulated – at the click of a ‘send’ button.