Amnesty: Economic crisis fuels abuses
The world faced a grave danger that “rising poverty and desperate economic and social conditions could lead to political instability and mass violence”, the rights group’s secretary-general, Irene Khan, wrote in its annual report.
As governments struggled to resuscitate their economies, human rights were being “relegated to the back seat”, she said, calling for a “new global deal on human rights... to defuse the human rights time bomb”.
