There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

I hate to call it crossfire, what the rapid action battalion attributes for the custodial deaths, as there must be two parties in any such incident. But the reality is the just found body of the victim.

No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.

Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why human rights must not be ignored but given even greater prominence in times of economic crisis.

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.