"Among the myriad human rights challenges of 2004, two pose fundamental threats to human rights: the ethnic cleansing in Darfur and the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib. No one would equate the two, yet each, in its own way, has had an insidious effect. One involves indifference in the face of the worst imaginable atrocities, the other is emblematic of a powerful government flouting a most basic prohibition. One presents a crisis that threatens many lives, the other a case of exceptionalism that threatens the most fundamental rules. The vitality of the global defense of human rights depends on a firm response to each - on stopping the Sudanese government's slaughter in Darfur and on changing the policy decisions behind the U.S. government's torture and mistreatment of detainees." This is according to the introduction to the Human Rights Watch World Report 2005, available through the website link provided.