The UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, launched the eleventh annual report on human rights on 26 March 2009 at an event attended by an audience of NGOs, academics and journalists. The report reflects the range of work the FCO does to promote human rights worldwide.

Further Information

According to the statement issued by the FCO " Human rights cut across all of the FCO's policy goals; counter-terrorism and weapons proliferation; the promotion of a low carbon, high growth economy; prevention and resolution of conflict; and the development of effective international institutions. Our report reflects this. Human rights provide a set of standards and an international framework though which all our foreign policy can strive to be conducted"

The FCO Annual report is a useful reference source for NGOs and human rights organisations.

You can read the full text of the report by logging onto FCO Human Rights Report 2008