The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

Count up the results of 50 years of human rights mechanisms, 30 years of multibillion-dollar development programs and endless high-level rhetoric, and the global impact is quite underwhelming, ... This is a failure of implementation on a scale which shames us all.

I believe that there is a more serious realization (in Moscow) of the serious scale of human rights allegations that need to be investigated,

There are certainly human rights concerns. Very serious human rights concerns that I would like to have fully clarified,

building reconciliation between ethnic groups, issues of human rights, more tolerance and commitment to democratic human rights values.

a gross violation of human rights.