Vietnam is one focus of Washington's outreach but Hanoi's poor human rights record has made that awkward.
They added that 62 countries have signed MLATs with the US, and said some of them had "poor human rights records".
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But, later in his rule, Washington became increasingly unsettled about Paraguay's poor human rights record, gradually withdrawing its support as the years went by.
Former leader Bingu wa Mutharika, who died in office in April, was widely criticised for a poor human rights record and mismanaging the economy.
The M23 rebel group that Ntaganda co-led is full of officers with extremely poor human rights records of mass murders, child soldier recruitment and sexual violence.
BP's own security staff said to include former army officers with poor human-rights records in various abuses, including two murders.
In many of its fights, the U.S. could be reliant on new friends with poor human-rights records and far-different values.
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And the democratic countries have business interests that are at odds with a staunch opposition to autocracies that have poor human-rights records.
Mr Obama should bluntly criticise Russia's poor human-rights and democratic credentials.
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Pakistan points out that United Nations resolutions, ignored by India, call for a plebiscite in Kashmir, and that Indian rule there is maintained by a massive security force with a poor human-rights record.
The action is being taken on the grounds their care was so poor it breached the Human Rights Act.
Activists who say they represent the poor in Haiti, like human rights lawyer Mario Joseph, say unequal land ownership is the heart of the problem.
Angola's human-rights record is poor, the police brutal, the courts and the press both still hobbled.
Qatar and other Gulf states have long been criticised by international labour and human rights organisation for the poor treatment of migrant workers who suffer from low wages, high death rates on construction sites and substandard living conditions.
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Equally, many blamed the administration for poor management, lack of transparency and insensitivity to human rights among other weaknesses.
Washington wants to hang on to its discretionary system of duty-free access for poor countries, which is conditional on their human-rights record.
The BBC's Thomas Fessy in Dakar says human rights groups have repeatedly warned of the poor conditions in which children are housed in such schools, and some teachers have been accused of abuses.
Far from being a source of legitimate comparative advantage, low environmental standards are an abuse of the human rights of those people usually the poor who have to suffer their direct consequences through polluted water supplies and poisoned air.
As Dr Farmer argues, improving the health of the poor is not just a medical challenge, but a question of human rights.
Human-rights campaigners said the judgment spotlighted Turkey's poor record on freedom of expression.
And a definition that embraces the whole continent such as respect for human rights, the rule of law, care for the poor and a love of liberty (the list offered by one European commissioner) does so only because it not distinctively European.
That may be because poor, angry countries hesitate to threaten their relationship with powerful partners and aid donors by taunting them over human rights.
Human-rights activists oppose the death penalty too, describing it as punishment only for the poor and powerless (who they claim comprise 90% of the 764 convicts on death row).
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