Visiting Caracas last week, Mary Robinson, the United Nations' high commissioner for human rights, linked the referendum to a broader pattern of a "concentration of power without a counterweight that can maintain the state of law".
Following a three-year period of creative drought in the early 1980s after his marriage to Antonia Fraser and the death of Vivien Merchant, Pinter's plays tended to become shorter and more overtly political, serving as critiques of oppression, torture, and other abuses of human rights, linked by the apparent "invulnerability of power".
He said that Christopher could not certify that China had met such conditions, but he said that he was dropping the trade-human rights link for several reasons, including severe political tensions between Beijing and the Chinese provinces, a desire on the part of China's aging leadership to "preserve order" and the fact that no government responds well to outside threats.
In 2012 it sold its shares in News Corporation in protest at phone-hacking and in 2010 it sold its holdings in Vedanta Resources over human rights concerns linked with the company's mining operations India.
Adam Ward, an Asia analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told Bloomberg that China was now "an actor on the international security stage" and there was now a realisation that trade, security and human rights were linked.
Two assessments of the villagisation scheme in the region in February and June this year, which involved DfID, concluded they had uncovered no evidence of forced displacement or human rights abuses linked to the scheme.
The Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (Copinh) - the campaign group Cáceres co-founded – has long demanded that investors withdraw and make reparations for the human rights violations linked to the project.
The reinitiation of human rights trials linked to the dictatorship became state policy in 2003 under the presidency of Néstor Kirchner, the husband of the incumbent Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
The UK Government missed its chance to help shift the venue of this year's CHOGM, or to set public human rights benchmarks linked to attendance, which would have given them some leverage.
MAPS: MAJOR STEPS IN THE GROWTH OF THE REBEL RANKS; A SEQUENCE OF CRACKDOWNS: A human rights group linked to the opposition puts the conflict's death toll at 6,000, a number not independently confirmed.
In the wake of a Guardian investigation which found prawns sold in the UK were produced with the help of slave labour, she ordered the British Retail Consortium to produce new guidance urging its members to improve transparency about human rights abuses linked to food, drink, clothing and other products.
