Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the UK and Switzerland are now 'leading the charge' in the erosion of human rights with the governments of both countries attacking the European Court of Human Rights and discussing withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights, Amnesty International states in its State of the World’s Human Rights Annual Report.
“In short, at no time since the fall of the Berlin Wall had the integrity of, and support for, the international human rights framework in the Europe and Central Asia region appeared quite so brittle,” the report’s authors say.
The full Amnesty International report can be downloaded from the link:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol10/0001/2015/en/
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