caa a22 4500 388086505 CHVBK 20180307125231.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1052703600002252 doi S1052703600002252 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1052703600002252 Department of State Report: Human Rights Report for 1998 Stresses Right to Democracy [Elektronische Daten] Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, today's hearing marks the first time that I have had the honor to present to Congress the Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. I submit these 1998 reports proudly, in accordance with a prime statutory responsibility given by the Foreign Assistance Act to the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, which I have headed since November. In 1977, shortly before these reports were first issued, President Carter gave their rationale in his inaugural address: "Because we are free,” he said, "we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.” Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Foreign Policy Bulletin Cambridge University Press 10/2(1999-03), 93-128 1052-7036 10:2<93 1999 10 FPB https://doi.org/10.1017/S1052703600002252 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1052703600002252 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Foreign Policy Bulletin Cambridge University Press 10/2(1999-03), 93-128 1052-7036 10:2<93 1999 10 FPB CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge