Amnesty report

You have probably felt the impact of the global credit crunch in some form or another but now the human rights watchdog Amnesty International's annual report argues the effect stretches even further.

Amnesty says that the global economic crisis is causing human rights in Africa to deteriorate. According to the report, the financial crisis has aggravated abuses and distracted attention from problems such as skyrocketing food prices and job losses.

So just how is the global economic crisis affecting human rights on the continent? That's the question Paul Bakibinga put to Amnesty's Director of Africa programmes, Erwin van der Borgh.