The wave of disappearances and arbitrary arrests has led a host of human rights organisations to sound the alarm.
The conditions in which you live have been denounced as torture by UN officials and by a host of human rights, civil liberties, and religious groups.
Methane comes both from natural sources like bogs and from a host of human sources, including coal mines, leaking pipelines, landfills, belching cattle and rice paddies.
"More important than empires and wars and other breakthroughs," he continues, "technology is now an environment, the host of human habitation.
But gadgets may soon replace noses, with chemical breath tests under development for a host of human ailments, including asthma, cancer, diabetes and tuberculosis.
Britain opted out of the charter of rights as part of Lisbon treaty negotiations, which would have brought in a host of human rights measures that currently do not apply in the UK.
Still, a host of human studies demonstrating the beneficial health effects of alcohol, when consumed at low levels, lend weight to the idea that ethanol may have been a significant part of the prehuman diet.
Amnesty International's senior director for law and policy, Tawanda Mutasah, said: "Sex workers are at heightened risk of a whole host of human rights abuses including rape, violence, extortion and discrimination.
Along the way, the United Nations rights commission, the United States and other Western governments and a host of human rights groups will be looking for ways to put pressure on Beijing.
The report by BP's investigation team published today takes this demolition job a stage further by itemising a host of human and mechanical failures that it believes were responsible for the accident.
