VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - World peace can only be achieved if individuals' human rights are respected, Pope Benedict said in his first public address of the year, stressing that there can be no excuse for treating people as "objects".
Two days after the hanging of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein -- an event the Vatican condemned as "tragic" -- the Pope said on Monday that human rights must be put at the heart of the global struggle to end war.
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