Amnesty International has released its latest report on the state of human rights in 160 countries, warning that millions of people are subjected to grave human rights violation.

The NGO accused the international community of not having done enough to protect civilians who have been killed, displaced, persecuted, abducted and tortured at the hands of both rebel groups and governments.

During a conference on the report, held in London on Tuesday (25th February), Amnesty International’s Secretary General Salil Shetty said: »The United Nations was established 70 years ago to ensure that we would never again see the horrors witnessed in the Second World War. We are now seeing violence on a mass scale and an enormous refugee crisis caused by that violence. There has been a singular failure to find workable solutions to the most pressing needs of our time…