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Article: Clinton rapped on human rights: Abuses in Africa, Middle East called foreign policy `blind spots'.(World)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 4, 1998
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A leading international human rights organization criticized the Clinton administration yesterday for turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in large areas of the world over the past year.
Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth told reporters, "We call on the Clinton administration to carry out enforcement of human rights around the world."
"The Clinton administration's efforts to promote human rights around the world were subject to large blind spots," the organization said in its 1999 report. "Major parts of Africa, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union never made it to the administration's human rights agenda."
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