Last week, Amnesty International published its 2009 Report on the state of human rights across the globe. Perhaps not surprisingly, the report, inter alia, focuses on some of the effects that the current economic situation has on the respect for human rights. Thus, the foreword by Secretary General Irene Kahn notes that “it is not just the economy, it’s a human rights crisis”. While the situation is undoubtedly a bit more complicated than that, and while the economic development and expansion witnessed across the world over the last five years have helped lift millions of people out of poverty, consequently…