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Article: Carter Center, Human Rights First Convene Conference for Human Rights Activists to Highlight Threat to Rule of Law in War on Terrorism.
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- AScribe Law News Service
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- June 1, 2005
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Byline: The Carter Center
ATLANTA, June 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Human rights activists are often the first to sound the alarm bell on crises that escalate into conflict and even genocide, and they increasingly find themselves under attack from extremists and silenced by repressive regimes whose actions are overlooked because of their cooperation in the war on terrorism.
Alongside the promising development of democratic elections taking place in some countries, there are still mounting human rights violations worldwide. Governments label activists as "terrorists" in order to quash their work under the pretext of fighting terrorism. Some fear a trend of ...