1.   Andrei Sakharov, the great human rights campaigner, and now Mrs. Starovoitova, his close ally, are dead.

2.   A broad spectrum of scholars, human rights activists, and, privately, US government sources have taken sharp exception to almost all of those assertions.

3.   A human rights lawyer and constitutional scholar, she became an early advocate of changing Irish laws barring divorce and abortion.

4.   But German charity has its limits, said Fadila Memisevic, a Bosnian human rights campaigner here.

5.   Human rights organizations and the Clinton administration until recently had depicted the Haitian police and army as killers, rapists, extortionists and kidnappers.

6.   Human rights violations?

7.   The brunt of repression has fallen on parliamentary opponents, two of whom were briefly detained this week, and independent human rights advocates.

8.   The conflict in Afghanistan has posed a broad spectrum of concerns for human rights organizations, not the least of them the absence of credible information from the scene.

9.   Prosecutors, human rights monitors, and the military announced separate inquiries.

10.   And it criticized the Indonesian government for not honoring earlier promises to allow human rights experts into East Timor.