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UN Warns of Rollback in Liberties After Sept. 11
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S.-led "war on terror" is threatening civil liberties and human rights around the world, the United Nations said Thursday, echoing a warning by Amnesty International a week ago. U.N. human rights chief Mary Robinson told an audience at London's Commonwealth Institute that security concerns in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States should not be a reason to neglect the rights of individuals or groups. Robinson claimed official reactions to the attacks "at times have seemed to subordinate the principles of human rights to other more 'robust' action in the war against terrorism." "There has been a tendency to ride roughshod over -- or at least to set on one side -- established principles of international human rights and humanitarian law," the high commissioner for human rights said.

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