According to an annual report organized in 150 countries by the Amnesty International (AI), at least 81 countries are closing their eyes when it comes to torture or bad treatment of their citizens. The freedom of speak is not respected in at least 77 countries and unfair trial has been reported in at least 54 nations.

How is this possible, after 60 years of human rights empowered by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, admitted that some countries might have recognized the convention, but probably forgot to implement it.

The report accuses some countries of being “impotent” and careless to human rights abuses and offers them keys to fixing the problems.

China is encouraged to adopt the freedom of speech and put an end to “re-education through labor” attitude.

AI is drawing Russia’s attention upon the human rights abuses tolerated in Chechnya and upon showing more indulgency to political dissent.

The EU was accused of complicity in rendition of terrorism suspects.

However, AI’s most put-against-the-wall nation was the United States. The country was advised to close the Cuban Guantanamo Bay detention camp where terrorism suspects are being kept without having access to fair trials. Other such centers should also be closed. Torture and authoritarian regimes should be prohibited all over the nation. “As the world’s most powerful state,” AI considers that the U.S. wrongly “set the standard for government behavior globally.”