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Roma communities and settlements in Italy have been subjected to ongoing discrimination (Photo: Amnesty International)

Economic crisis damaging human rights, report says

Human rights violations remained widespread across the world in 2008, including Europe, with the global economic crisis not only aggravating the existing problems, but creating new ones as well, human rights group Amnesty International's yearly report released on Thursday (28 May) shows.

"The global economic crisis is an explosive human rights crisis. A combination of social, economic and political problems has created a time bomb of human rights abuses [across the world]," said Irene K...

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Roma communities and settlements in Italy have been subjected to ongoing discrimination (Photo: Amnesty International)

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