Sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations, people are still being tortured and ill-treated in at least 81 countries, face unfair trials in at least 54 countries and are not allowed to speak freely in at least 77 countries.

These details from the Amnesty International report on 2007 also under the unfortunate fact that injustice, inequality and impunity have become the hallmark of government today.