Global human rights issues are highlighted in the Amnesty International Report 2007, which has been distributed in school and public libraries across the Island.

Amnesty International is a world-wide movement of people who campaign for human rights to be respected and protected. The report lists issues of concern during the course of 2006.

Lucy Attride-Stirling, executive director of the Bermuda branch, said: “The local section of AI in Bermuda wishes to bring awareness of the human rights situation in the rest of the world to the people in Bermuda.

“While in Bermuda we do not face the gross human rights violations that other countries suffer like Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Brazil and Sudan to mention just a few, we must be ever mindful that if it happens in those countries, it can happen anywhere.”