concerns for human rights report

Campaigners voiced concerns after it emerged that the Foreign Office's annual human rights report could be downgraded as part of cost-cutting measures.

The document has been published since 1997 to highlight levels of torture, oppression, capital punishment and arms trading around the world but it seems the details may now only be issued online.

A Foreign Office spokesman denied the publication was being scrapped altogether, saying: “The only question is how that report can most cost-effectively be produced in the current financial climate.

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“We are looking at alternatives to the expensive glossy colour publications of the past, for example online publication or publication by command paper.

“Final decisions will be announced in due course.”