The money will be used to meet humanitarian needs and for human rights programs, clearing mines and setting up a police force.

As President, he did put forward many civil rights programs but they were met with a lot of resistance by southern Democrats.

Sixty law students at Columbia University will soon begin jobs as summer interns in an unusual human rights program.

Other law schools established human rights programs at about the same time as Columbia, but in most instances their focus is more narrow.

In all your life, you never heard so many Democratic pols say nothing; not a word uttered in defense of that little civil rights program.

And Reagan-era attacks on affirmative action and civil rights programs did nothing to enhance racial economic justice.

A zero-tolerance policy is already in place, she said, as is a civil rights program considered the most progressive in the nation.

She worked on a human rights programme for the government from 1993 to 2003.

The Commission is going to initiate an evaluation of human rights programmes in developing countries.

"There's been an explosion in human rights programs," Mr. Roth says.