Governments Must Apologize for 60 Years of Human Rights Failures
Published May 28, 2008 @ 12:30PM PT
Sixty years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations. Amnesty International's brand new 2008 round-up of the State of the World's Human Rights show that sixty years later people still face:
• torture or ill-treatment in at least 81 countries
• unfair trials in at least 54 countries
• filtered or blocked speech in at least 77 countries
Governments are failing to respond to growing angry demands for justice, freedom, and equality - similarly to those voiced in Myanmar, Pakistan and Iran.
In honor of the 60th anniversary of the UDHR, Amnesty International challenges governments around the world to set a new paradigm for collective leadership to solve the world's human rights crises.
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