In the recent State of the World's Human Rights news conference held in London on February 24, Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty disclosed that this year's report provides quite shocking details.

"Our report this year for 2014/15 provides quite shocking details of the horrific violence and human rights abuses that civilians from Syria to Ukraine to Nigeria to Gaza have faced in this period. But the response so far has been dismal. We have called it shameful," Salil said.

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In an interview, Salil described the response from the international committee as dismal and shameful.

"The main point that we are making in our report is that the response from the International Committee and those that could potentially stop violence and other human rights abuses from continuing has been dismal," he said.

Consequently, Salil added that "We are very nervous that governments are ending up once more repeating the mistakes of the post-9/11 era where the knee-jerk reaction of draconian anti-terror legislation being bought in, mass surveillance, we have seen this in France, Denmark, we are seeing this in several countries in the west. And of course very quickly countries in the developing world pick up this practice, so Kenya, Turkey, Egypt all bringing in anti-terror legislation".

The United Nations Security Council which was created with the aim to protect the civilians and provide security for the people has also dismally failed.

One of the instruments or reasons through which this failure has ended up happening was due to the abuse of the veto power of the permanent five members of the Security Council according to Salil.

Further, the Amnesty International through the secretary general is making clear calls on what the world can do to help and reverse the situation and to improve the protection of the civilians that they deserve.

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