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Human rights conditions worsening in Arab region: report

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] Human rights conditions are worsening in 12 Arab nations, according to a report published Friday by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS). The publication, which is the group's first annual report, is titled "From Exporting Terrorism to Exporting Repression," and was released to coincide with the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The report deplores the impunity of human rights violations and crimes, including violations against political, human rights, and reform activists in the region, focusing on Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Yemen. The report identifies Iraq as the nation with the most serious human rights abuses. It charges that authoritarian tendencies in the League of Arab States have risen to an all time high, and that foreign relations of the league amount to a tool of repression. It also alleges that there is a lack of independence and guarantees of justice in the region's judicial systems. The report concludes that most Arab regimes are losing their legitimacy because they refuse to base themselves on free democratic choice and are instead allying with Salafi Islam, signifying a move towards religious extremism and worsening human rights conditions. Iraq has previously been reported as having a poor human rights record. In March, Amnesty International (AI) called the human rights situation in Iraq "disastrous". In June, the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants declared Iraq to be one of the worst violators of refugee rights in the world. Last month, the UN envoy to Iraq praised the creation of an Independent High Commission for Human Rights, calling it a "milestone" for human rights in the region.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on December 08, 2008 (boomark / email).