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January 23, 2012

Europe's Own Human Rights Crisis

Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch

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To many friends of human rights in Europe, the Arab Spring has been the most thrilling period since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Judging from their soaring rhetoric about yearning for freedom among Arab peoples, European Union leaders share that enthusiasm. Today there is an opportunity, the optimists proclaim, to have an arc of human rights-respecting countries around much of the Mediterranean rim.

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TAGGED: Europe, Human Rights

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