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Human Rights Developments
Defending Human Rights
The Role of the International CommunitySeveral organizations defended human rights in general, as well as such particular interests as freedom of the press or the rights of prisoners. The best established of these groups, Iteka, criticized authorities for unexplained “disappearances,” for closing down newspapers, and for the conditions in the prisons. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights maintained a small group of observers to assist the judiciary, visit prisons, and to monitor violations of international humanitarian law by the army and the insurgents. Because of security concerns, the monitors rarely did investigations outside the capital. Their reports were circulated to the government of Burundi and within the diplomatic community. |
 Angola Burundi The Democratic Republic of Congo Ethiopia Kenya Liberia Mozambique Nigeria Rwanda Sierra Leone South Africa Sudan Uganda Zambia  Stop the Use of Child Soldiers Abduction and Enslavement of Ugandan Children Human Rights Causes of the Famine in Sudan |
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