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October 5, 2015 06:52 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nVZCb6beUhM/uk-top-government-official-hu.html
UK top government official: human rights no longer a "top priority"
Sir Simon McDonald, Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Office -- the country's most senior Foreign Office official -- told MPs that his department had sidelined human rights work in favour of global trade agreements (the same agreements that allow sovereign wealth funds from the world's most brutal, oppressive states to buy huge swathes of the UK's public institutions at knock-down prices in the Tories' great sell-off of public assets). (more…)
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