Human rights climate 'worst in 50 years'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,7369,1224972,00.html

Simon Jeffery and Mark Oliver
Wednesday May 26, 2004

Amnesty International today claimed that governments and armed groups
such as al-Qaida were putting human rights and international
humanitarian law under the greatest pressure for more than 50 years.

From long-running conflicts in countries such as Chechnya and Sudan to
the Madrid train bombings, it said global insecurity was combining
with increasing human rights violations by powerful governments to
create a world of "mistrust, fear and division".