May 7 2011
What really bothers London?
How come the UK is more concerned with issues of human rights in Israel, than in Syria, Libya or Egypt?
Cairo, February 2011
The British Foreign Office published at the end of March its annual Human Rights and Democracy report for 2010. One could have imagined that due to the tremendous ongoing turmoil in the Arab world, Britain would prioritize promoting human rights issues exactly there. The whole world’s eyes are fixated since last December not only on the cruel brutality of Arab autocratic regimes facing huge demonstrations, but also on the decades-long systemic violations of basic human rights that sent so many millions of people to the streets in the first place.
But it seems that the British Foreign Office has a different agenda. (more…)
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