41.   Amnesty, in a report faxed to The Associated Press in Cairo, said the government has failed to respond to pleas to investigate human rights abuses.

42.   But she urged the government to further investigate alleged abuses by the military, U.S. officials said.

43.   He has returned to China to investigate abuses in its prisons and labor camps.

44.   Hammarberg conceded that previous promises by the government to investigate human rights abuses have yielded no arrests.

45.   He said Amnesty should rather investigate rights abuses committed by the rebels.

46.   He said he would urge fellow lawmakers to investigate the abuse of diplomatic passports.

47.   He urged that it should be given more resources to investigate abuses.

48.   Human rights activists said the government was slow to investigate the abuses.

49.   In August, the Sri Lankan parliament adopted a tough legislation outlawing child labor and setting a Child Protection Authority with wide powers to investigate sex abuses.

50.   In Geneva, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ordzhonikidze said Wednesday that Russia was committed to investigating abuses but that it would take time.