Human Rights Watch World Report 2001

This annual review of human rights practices covers developments in 70 countries over the period November 1999 to November 2000. With respect to particular countries, issues examined include:

- Significant human rights developments
- Response of global actors, e.g. the EU, Japan, the US, the UN, & regional organisations
- Freedom of local human rights defenders to conduct their work

Other chapters examine thematic concerns:

- Academic freedom
- Business and human rights
- Child soldiers campaign
- Human Rights Watch international film festival
- International campaign to ban landmines
- International justice
- Lesbian and gay rights
- Prisons
- Racial discrimination and related intolerance
- Refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons