Annual report on human rights 2009

Great Britain: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The Stationery Office, Mar 18, 2010 - Political Science - 192 pages

This report covers the period 1 January to 31 December 2009. It provides an overview of the main challenges to human rights around the world and explains the government's activities and policies to address those challenges. Chapters cover: promoting human rights through democracy, the rule of law and equality; human rights in conflict, counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation; protecting the rights of British nationals overseas; promoting human rights in the British overseas territories; working through international institutions to promote human rights; and a review of countries of concern, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

Contents

• Introduction: 6
• Elections and Election Observation Missions: 12
• Prison Reform: 18
• Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Rights: 24
• Preventing and Resolving Conflict: 31
• Children and Armed Conflict: 37
• CounterTerrorism: 43
• Protecting the Rights of British Nationals Overseas: 50
• Child Abduction 51 Forced Marriage: 51
• Prisoners: 52
• Death Penalty: 53
• Promoting Human Rights in the Overseas Territories 55 Constitutional Review Process 55 Building Human Rights Capacity in the Overseas Territories: 55
• Overseas Territories Consultative Council 56 Corruption Allegations in the Turks and Caicos Islands: 56
• The Overseas Territories Programme Fund: 57
• Working through International Institutions to Promote Human Rights: 58
• The United Nations: 59
• The International Courts: 65
• The European Union: 68
• The Commonwealth: 73
• The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe: 75
• The Council of Europe: 77
• Countries of Concern: 78
• Afghanistan: 79
• Belarus: 87
• Burma: 89
• China: 94
• Colombia: 100
• Cuba: 104
• The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea: 107
• The Democratic Republic of Congo: 109
• Iran: 113
• Iraq: 118
• Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: 124
• Pakistan: 131
• Russia: 136
• Saudi Arabia: 141
• Somalia: 145
• Sri Lanka: 148
• Sudan: 152
• Syria: 157
• Turkmenistan: 159
• Uzbekistan: 162
• Vietnam: 164
• Zimbabwe: 168
• Glossary: 174
• Index: 176
• Small Arms and Light Weapons: 177
• Acknowledgements: 192

Bibliographic information

• Title: Annual report on human rights 2009; Volume 7805 of Cm (Series) (Great Britain. Parliament); Cm Series
• Author: Great Britain: Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Publisher: The Stationery Office, 2010
• ISBN: 0101780524, 9780101780520
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / International Relations / General