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Department of State Report: Human Rights Report for 1998 Stresses Right to Democracy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 February 2009
Extract
Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, today's hearing marks the first time that I have had the honor to present to Congress the Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. I submit these 1998 reports proudly, in accordance with a prime statutory responsibility given by the Foreign Assistance Act to the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, which I have headed since November. In 1977, shortly before these reports were first issued, President Carter gave their rationale in his inaugural address: “Because we are free,” he said, “we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.”
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References
1. Dept. of State Press Release, February 26, 1999.
2. Text from the Dept. of State [www.state.gov].