But investment in human rights is not only a moral and quasi-legal salvation from things that are still going depressingly wrong.
However, the issues addressed two decades ago by those of us involved in advisory and teacher education work are, depressingly, still with us.
However, the country remains depressingly poor, with gross domestic product per capita well under $2,000.
Severe problems of land polarisation, rural poverty and deprivation remain depressingly common throughout the continent.
Depressingly there are only two women contributors and, guess what, they do the ' women ' chapters.
It becomes depressingly clear how little weight is often given to linguistic evidence, and how poor documentation can be.
All the issues look depressingly familiar.
It is depressingly obvious to many of us who represent northern constituencies that people on each side of the great divide have very different views.
