Monday, October 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM EDT
Irene Khan, secretary general of Amnesty International, speaking in Mexico City in August 2007. (AP)A new Sudan policy out today from the Obama administration — and immediate scrutiny from human rights advocates of its impact on a campaign called genocide.
It’s been a tough decade for human rights. As if terror and torture and war on terror weren’t tough enough to deal with, then came economic collapse.