Publication

This report provides an assessment of US human rights policy between 1979 and 1999. The report features the input and contributions of members of the US Congress and examines the achievements and inadequacies with regards to US human rights protection and promotion abroad. The report states that the key future challenges to effective and consistent US human rights policy formulation are likely to be the mounting tension between human rights and commercial and security interests, the proliferation of collapsed states, internal conflicts, and available arms as well as the deepening economic inequality resulting from globalization.