Amnesty criticises US human rights report

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Human rights watchdog Amnesty International chided the US Government for issuing another report on rights across the world without taking care to get its own house in order. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday hammered home the drive for global freedom in presenting the third annual State Department report on Supporting Human Rights: The US Record 2004-2005. The 293-page document, a follow-up to the annual country reviews released a month ago, pledged to keep up the pressure on nations such as North Korea, China and Russia but also on autocratic US allies like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

The Nobel Prize-winning group applauded the State Department's efforts but said they were compromised by US failures to respect the rights of prisoners in Iraq and war-on-terror detainees in Guantanamo, Cuba. "As long as the White House continues to flout international law and blatantly disregard the Geneva Conventions, many of its policies to promote democracy and human rights will be greeted with deep scepticism," it said.

Alexandra Arriaga, director of government relations for Amnesty International USA, said US moral authority was diminished by continuing reports of judicial abuses by the American authorities. She said the US administration's overall record made the State Department's report in its rights achievements "tantamount to a business ethics manual published by Enron," the failed and discredited energy giant.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1332995.htm


US sets qualified global human rights test
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hammered home the White House message while presenting the third annual State Department report on Supporting Human Rights: The US Record 2004-2005.The 293-page document, a follow-up to the annual country reviews released a month ago, pledged to keep up the pressure on nations such as North Korea, China and Russia but also on autocratic US allies like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1332976.htm

[mom cat]

1. Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, God shed his rage on thee!

Sung to a possibly recognisable tune: (hint: think baseball)

[NVMojo]

2. and crown thy good with hypocritehood ....