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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 11:00 AM EDT
Amnesty International Report Condemns U.S.

A report by Amnesty International released today condemns the United States for carrying out a war on terror that is flouting human rights in a failed attempt to gain security.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan responded that the U.S. is a leader on human rights and said that the war on terror has protected the human rights of 25 million people in Afghanistan, and another 25 million in Iraq.

But, in presenting the report earlier today in Washington, Amnesty USA Executive Director William Shultz said the world’s human rights situation is worse than it’s been in 50 years and charged that the Bush administration’s war on terror has actually made the world an unsafer place.

Hear an excerpt from William Shultz’s presentation.

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