A Day in Paradise

Amnesty International Report 2004

Just skimmed over the first few paragraphs. Good reading, but I’ll wait for the papers to summerize it. One interesting part from the section that I read was:

Iraq and the “war on terror” have obscured the greatest human rights challenge of our times. According to some sources, developing countries spend about US$22 billion a year on weapons and, for $10 billion dollars a year, they would achieve universal primary education. These statistics hide a huge scandal: the failed promise to attack extreme poverty and address gross economic and social injustice.