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SADC human-rights not up to scratch

    JOHANNESBURG

    Only half of the 14 governments of the Southern African Development
    Community (SADC) made the grade on their human rights records
    in 2000, the US State Department said in its annual human rights report this week. The report said South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Seychelles and Namibia "generally respected" the human rights of their people, while Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Tanzania, Swaziland and Angola had human rights records in 2000 that were
    "generally poor".

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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