Amnesty slams 'bankrupt' vision of US in damning human rights report

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Amnesty slams 'bankrupt' vision of US in damning human rights report

LONDON (AFP) - <snip>"The global security agenda promulgated by the US administration is bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle," wrote Amnesty's secretary general Irene Khan in the report's introduction.

"Sacrificing human rights in the name of security at home, turning a blind eye to abuses abroad and using pre-emptive military force where and when it chooses have neither increased security nor ensured liberty."

The notion of fighting a campaign against terrorism so as to support human rights, while simultaneously trampling on them to achieve this, was no more than "double speak", she said. <snip>

The report also stated that events in 2003 had "dealt a mortal blow" to the UN's vision of universal human rights, with the global body "virtually paralysed in its efforts to hold states to account" over the issue. "Not since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948 has there been such a sustained attack (by the US) on (its) values and principles," Khan told the press conference. <snip>

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