Annual Report 2006
The State of the World's Human Rights
During 2005, some of the world’s most powerful governments were successfully challenged, their hypocrisy exposed by the media, their arguments rejected by courts of law, their repressive tactics resisted by human rights activists. After five years of backlash against human rights in the “war on terror”, the tide appeared to be turning.
Nevertheless, the lives of millions of people worldwide were devastated by the denial of fundamental rights. Human security was threatened by war and attacks by armed groups as well as by hunger, disease and natural disasters. Freedoms were curtailed by repression, discrimination and social exclusion.
Outsourcing Facilitating Human Rights Violations
Statement: Larry Cox, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA
Statement: Jonathan H. Pyle, Attorney, Burke Pyle LLC, Philadelphia
Outsourcing Facilitating Human Rights Violations
Governments Denying Their Citizens Basic Human Rights Under the Guise of National Security
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