Human Rights Watch World
Report 2001
The scope of today's global human rights
problems far exceeds the capacity of global institutions to address them.
The problem is most acute in the realm of economic globalization, where
a disturbing institutional void leaves human rights standards unenforced.
But the problem also arises as the world struggles to respond to mass atrocities,
protect the victims of these crimes, rebuild their countries, and bring
their persecutors to justice. In each case, a more interconnected and seemingly
smaller world rightfully feels a greater responsibility to respond. Yet
the capacity to meet these demands has not kept up with the challenges.
A new global architecture is needed. Human Rights Watch's annual World
Report describes this weakness in the institutional capacity to address
the global human rights challenges of our time. This - our eleventhannual
review of human rights practices around the globe - covers developments
in 70 countries. The report reflects extensive investigative work conducted
in 2000 by the Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with
human rights activists in the countries in question.
ISBN 1-56432-238-6 (2386), 12/99, 544
pp., $25.00
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