World Report 2001: The Events of 2000 - Hardcover

Analysis and reports on human rights developments over the past year in 70 countries. Global trade and investment should provide for greater protection for human rights, the Human Rights Watch World Report says. It argues that the United Nations needs more resources to help and armed conflicts and aid refugee problems. The emerging system of international justice, including the international criminal court, should have more robust support from all countries, including the United States. Among the crises addressed in the report: * Russia has conducted its war in Chechnya with gross disregard for the suffering of the civilian population, Moscow has largely escaped international penalties for its conduct. * Fresh atrocities continue in the nine-year civil war in Sierra Leone, despite the capture of a major rebel leader there. * The military in Colombia has still not severed its links with paramilitaries who are responsible for grave human rights abuses. U.S. President Clinton's waiver of the human rights conditions on "Plan Colombia," the massive U.S. aid package, may exacerbate abuses. * The government of Indonesia has not reined in militias in West Timor who were responsible for scorched-earth tactics in East Timor in 1999. * Israel responded to Palestinian demonstrations protesting continued military occupation of parts of the West Bank and Gaza with force that was frequently excessive and indiscriminate, leading to many civilian casualities.

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