This overview of the year 2000 examines world-wide
human rights practices, providing general discussions of the year, developments
in human rights, democracy, and labor, as well as the history of the human
rights reports.
A resource for shaping policy, conducting
diplomacy, and making assistance, training, and other resource allocations,
the report also serves as a basis for the U.S. Government's cooperation
with private groups to promote the observance of internationally recognized
human rights.