Human Rights Day: "A surge of rather targeted violence against defenders"
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Amnesty International described Kostopoulos' death as a "lynching" and "assassination" Aris MESSINIS AFP
By: Florent Guignard Follow
This Friday, December 10, all over the world, we are celebrating International Human Rights Day.
On December 10, 1948, an important text was written and officially adopted at the UN, with the aim of defending peace in the world.
This text, which is called
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
is unfortunately not respected everywhere and by everyone.
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For this occasion, the general secretary of Amnesty International Agnès Callamard denounces at the microphone of RFI the abandonment of universal values by the international community, she was at the microphone of Florent Guignard.
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