Amnesty International urges G20 to protect human rights

"It's not just the economy, it's a human rights crisis: the world is sitting on a social, political and economic time bomb," Secretary General Irene Khan said in London. In its State of the World's Human Rights report involving 157 countries, Amnesty International said attention had been focused on solving the global financial systems, and that the human rights crisis "both linked to that system and aggravated by that system" had been largely ignored, deepening existing problems in different parts of the world. Among the issues, Khan listed unemployment, food shortages, social unrest, xenophobia, insecurity, injustice and indignity, adding that this also concerns the world's leading countries. "The events we've seen in 2008, with the world economic crisis at the top, demand a new kind of leadership from world leaders," Khan said, Kazinform cites RIA Novosti. See www.en.rian.ru for full version.