Human Rights Watch Releases It's Annual Report For 2014

Syria, U.S. Surveillance In Focus In Group's Annual Rights Report -- CNN

(CNN) -- Syria has been killing civilians and international powers have failed to intervene. The United States has killed people with drones and listened in on private communications in the name of national security. Russia has passed laws that target gays and lesbians. These are some of the trends in 2013 that Human Rights Watch (HRW) cited in its annual account of human rights records around the world on Tuesday.

In a 667-page report, the New York-based group highlighted key human rights issues in more than 90 countries, drawing on events through November.

HRW executive director Kenneth Roth presented the account, the 24th of its kind, at a press conference in Berlin.

Below are some of the issues in focus.

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WNU Editor: The Human Rights Watch 2014 Report can be read here.