If Rudd or Tony Abbott should wish to restore Australia'a international human rights reputation as well as preserve the dignity of human life, either party leader would do well to study his experience – good and bad.
"As Tobias Ellwood must surely realise, there's one very easy way for Saudi Arabia to gain a better human rights reputation – and that's by genuinely reversing the ongoing crackdown," said Amnesty International UK's head of policy and government affairs Allan Hogarth.
"It will do no good for this nation's tarnished human rights reputation that at the same time Britain took responsibility for its comparatively minor role in the ill treatment of terrorism suspects, former President George W. Bush was bragging that he had personally authorised the repeated use of a form of simulated drowning," the paper said.
Extensive media coverage of China's actions -- which have led to at least a dozen deaths, alleged death by torture, thousands of cases of abuse and the harassment of tens of thousands -- has blighted the human rights reputation of the government.
Reacting to the decision on Wednesday, David Snoxell, who was deputy commissioner for BIOT in the 1990s, said: "A small-scale resettlement could have been tried and 15 years of deception, litigation, wasted public funds and damage to the UK's human rights reputation avoided.
When it came to power, the Rudd government ended the Pacific Solution, fearing it had tarnished the country's international human rights reputation.
Our dollar is sinking and our human rights reputation is in tatters.
In November 2013, Abedini was transferred from Evin, which is known to hold political prisoners, to Rajai Shahr, a prison with an even worse human rights reputation.
"At a time when the country -- including Texas -- is opening its eyes to the problems that plague capital punishment," Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA said, "Governor Perry has chosen to remain blind to its flaws, further tarnishing Texas' human rights reputation".
Some racial bonuses are especially good for player-versus-player (PvP) combat, like the Undead's "Will of the Forsaken," while others benefit player-versus-environment (PvE) play, like the Human's reputation gain from the "Diplomacy" racial bonus.
