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World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International

posted by mrpg on Saturday February 24 2018, @01:41PM   
from the the-world-needs-empathy dept.

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" writes:

Original URL: World leaders abandoning human rights: Amnesty

World leaders are undermining human rights for millions of people with regressive policies and hate-filled rhetoric, but their actions have ignited global protest movements in response, a rights group said.

US President Donald Trump, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and China's President Xi Jinping were among a number of politicians who rolled out regressive policies in 2017, according to Amnesty International's annual human rights report published on Thursday.

The human rights body also mentioned the leaders of Egypt, the Philippines and Venezuela.

"The spectres of hatred and fear now loom large in world affairs, and we have few governments standing up for human rights in these disturbing times," Salil Shetty, Amnesty's secretary-general, said.

"Instead, leaders such as el-Sisi, Duterte, Maduro, Putin, Trump and Xi are callously undermining the rights of millions."

[...] The regressive approach to human rights adopted by a number of world leaders has, however, inspired new waves of social activism and protest, Amnesty said, highlighting the example of the Women's March in January last year, which began in the US before becoming a global protest.

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• Blaming Governments? Blaming Governments? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @02:15PM (4 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @02:15PM (#643023)

  It sounds like they are naming governments as the organizations responsible for undermining human rights.

• Re:Blaming Governments? Re:Blaming Governments? (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @02:19PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @02:19PM (#643024)

  Sounds like you'd blame somebody else.

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  • Re:Blaming Governments? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @02:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @02:56PM (#643033)

    I'd expect criminals, corporations, the rich, taxpayers, etc.

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  • Re:Blaming Governments? Re:Blaming Governments? (Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:11PM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:11PM (#643097) Journal

    In a democracy, the voters are responsible for their government.

    --
    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

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    • ''the voters are responsible for their gov't'' (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @01:28AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @01:28AM (#643257)

      That's the hypothesis sold by The Ruling Class.
      ...meanwhile, as noted in 1944 by Vice President Henry Wallace [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [thomhartmann.com]

      The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist, the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."

      IOW, queer the elections|campaigns.

      ...and media consolidation sucks.
      If you're still getting your "information" via Lamestream Media (anything with ads|sponsors|underwriters), you're not getting the whole story--and may well be getting complete fiction.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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