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One of the many duties of the United States Department of State is to monitor human rights conditions in the world. The State Department has compiled a comprehensive list of reports on each nation: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/. Select one nation from each of the following regions—as categorized by the State Department: Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, Western Hemisphere, Near East and North Africa, and South Asia. Offer a brief summary of the human rights conditions in each of the selected nations.
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Is there any connection between the form of government of each nation and the level of human rights in that nation?
3

Examine the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm. If you were to draft a government based upon this document, what would be its main features?





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