Amnesty International chief calls for renewed focus on human rights

: The leader of Amnesty International said in a talking Wednesday that the United States have taken too narrow a position of how to struggle terrorism and said she trusts the adjacent president can be more than effectual in protecting the vulnerable across the world.

Irene Khan, secretary full general of the human rights organization, addressed pupils and others at the Bill Clinton School of Populace Service in Little Rock, Arkansas.

"People around the human race are looking to the U.S. on human rights issues," Caravansary said afterward. "It is dissatisfactory to see the U.S. focusing on counterterrorism gnaw human rights."

Khan, a citizen of People'S Republic Of Bangladesh who have led Amnesty International since 2001, criticized the prison house at Guantanamo, the manner the President Saint George W. Bush's disposal attacks torment and the focusing on warfare as the manner to battle terrorism.

She pointed to Germany, Kingdom Of Spain and the United Kingdom, which have got tried panic suspects in their civilian judicial systems, and said the U.S. prison house at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the country's chase of military trials for panic suspects is dissentious and the incorrect approach. Today in Americas

"The manner to cover with terrorism is not by destroying the system and values that terrorism desires to destroy," Caravansary said.

Khan said the human race is eager for the United States to have got a new leader who will take a more than expansive position of how to turn to the world's problems, pursuing solutions to poverty, deficient wellness care, subjugation of women and other human rights issues.

The influence of the United States have "eroded," and it will take clip for the adjacent president to win back the international community. But the human race necessitates the United States to be a leader because it is the lone superpower, she said, with natural resources and an economical engine too great to ignore.

"You can't travel on large issues without the U.S.," she said.

Amnesty International was founded in 1961 at the tallness of the Cold War. The organisation makes not back any political system, preferring to remain neutral.

Khan praised the long U.S. history of supporting human rights and promotion of strife-torn areas, from its championship of the 1948 United Nations' Universal Joint Declaration of Person Rights to the post-World War two rebuilding under the E. G. Marshall Plan and the reintegration of eastern European states after the autumn of the Soviet Union.