World Report 2014

Events of 2013

Introduction by Kenneth Roth
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$30.00 US
On sale Feb 25, 2014 | 672 Pages | 9781609805555

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The 24th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2013 by Human Rights Watch staff in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. World Report 2014 gives particular focus on the roles-positive or negative-played in each country by key domestic and international figures. This year’s report includes contributions from Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, David Mepham, and Dinah PoKempner, with an introduction by Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth assessing the year’s most pressing human rights issue.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights, and operates in more than eighty countries. Its annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere.
 
KENNETH ROTH is the executive director of Human Rights Watch. He has conducted numerous human rights investigations and missions around the world.
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .” —Ahmed Rashid, The New York Review of Books 

“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to dominate.” –Simon Jenkins, former editor of the Times (London)

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The 24th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2013 by Human Rights Watch staff in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. World Report 2014 gives particular focus on the roles-positive or negative-played in each country by key domestic and international figures. This year’s report includes contributions from Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, David Mepham, and Dinah PoKempner, with an introduction by Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth assessing the year’s most pressing human rights issue.

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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights, and operates in more than eighty countries. Its annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere.
 
KENNETH ROTH is the executive director of Human Rights Watch. He has conducted numerous human rights investigations and missions around the world.

Praise

“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .” —Ahmed Rashid, The New York Review of Books 

“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to dominate.” –Simon Jenkins, former editor of the Times (London)

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