Human Rights and Democracy Report

Foreign Secretary William Hague has launched Human Rights and Democracy: The 2011 Foreign & Commonwealth Report, which is a comprehensive look at the human rights work of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office around the world in 2011.

The report highlights the UK's human rights concerns in 28 key countries. The website will be updated every three months to highlight key human rights events and actions that take place in each of these featured countries of concern. The updates for the first three months of 2011 have also now been published online.

The Foreign Secretary said;

"The report comprehensively assesses developments in human rights in 2011 and provides information about some important developments in early 2012.

"It sets out what the Government is doing through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to promote human rights and democratic values around the world, in three principal areas: it documents the serious concerns we have about a range of countries where we are seeking to influence the human rights situation; it assesses progress on thematic issues that cut across geographic boundaries; and it reports on areas where we believe we have seen positive developments over the last year.”