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Arab Spring gives rise to new challenges
Thursday January 31, 2013 05:26:49 PM,
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London:
The euphoria of the Arab Spring has given way to the sobering
challenge of creating rights-respecting democracies, Human Rights
Watch said Thursday.
It said in its World Report 2013 that the willingness of new
governments to respect rights will determine whether those
uprisings give birth to genuine democracy or simply spawn
authoritarianism in new forms.
In the 665-page report, its 23rd annual review of human rights
practices around the globe, Human Rights Watch summarized major
issues in more than 90 countries.
With regard to events known as the Arab Spring, it said the
creation of a rights-respecting state can be painstaking work that
requires building effective institutions of governance,
establishing independent courts, creating professional police, and
resisting the temptation of majorities to disregard human rights
and the rule of law.
But the difficulty of building democracy does not justify seeking
a return to the old order, Human Rights Watch said.
"The uncertainties of freedom are no reason to revert to the
enforced predictability of authoritarian rule," said Kenneth Roth,
executive director of Human Rights Watch.
"The path ahead may be treacherous, but the alternative is to
consign entire countries to a grim future of oppression."
Leaders in the Middle East are naturally eager to exercise their
new electoral clout but they have a duty to govern without
sacrificing fundamental freedoms or the rights of minorities,
women and other groups.
The struggle over Egypt's constitution, which will probably be the
most influential among countries in the region undergoing change,
demonstrates the difficulty of protecting human rights, Human
Rights Watch said.
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