{"id":5663,"date":"2015-03-01T15:25:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T13:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2015-03-02T11:16:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T09:16:23","slug":"amnesty-international-annual-report-20142015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2015\/03\/amnesty-international-annual-report-20142015\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International Annual Report 2014\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/annual-report-201415\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amnesty International<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This has been a devastating year for those seeking to stand up for human rights and for those caught up in the suffering of war zones.<br \/>\nBy Salil Shetty, Secretary General at Amnesty International<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Governments pay lip service to the importance of protecting civilians. And yet the world&#8217;s politicians have miserably failed to protect those in greatest need. Amnesty International believes that this can and must finally change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">International humanitarian law &#8211; the law that governs the conduct of armed conflict &#8211; could not be clearer. Attacks must never be directed against civilians. The principle of distinguishing between civilians and combatants is a fundamental safeguard for people caught up in the horrors of war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And yet, time and again, civilians bore the brunt in conflict. In the year marking the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, politicians repeatedly trampled on the rules protecting civilians &#8211; or looked away from the deadly violations of these rules committed by others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/search\/?q=iran\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a devastating year for those seeking to stand up for human rights and for those caught up in the suffering of war zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,5,43,88,44,10],"tags":[183,387],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor-selection","category-geography","category-human-rights-online-library","category-slider","category-the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights-human-rights-online-library","category-world","tag-amnesty-international","tag-human-rights-report","country-afghanistan","country-iran","country-world","Documents-conventions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5671,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}