Human rights group calls on Obama administration to reverse harm done

Wed, 01/14/2009 - 15:04
  • Year: 2009
  • Length: 3:49 minutes (3.5 MB)
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Human Rights Watch issued its annual World Report today, and says that Obama's administration needs to put human rights at the center of its foreign and domestic policy to begin reversing the harm generated from the Bush years. Ken Roth is Executive Director of Human Rights Watch; Roth outlines some of the Bush administration's decisions to fight terrorism without regard to the basic requirements of human rights law, and what HRW is demanding from the incoming Obama administration.

 

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