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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @02:24PM (2 children)
I notice from the past 15 years that if my government has the choice to support the economy (read: making sure the 1% or big international corps are well catered) or protecting human right (in own country or abroad) they choose the first.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @03:09PM
People are a commodity. Most just are too naive, too stupid, or too busy to realize it.
Unless people threaten the means of wealth for the upper class they will gain nothing for themselves among the lower to middle class. That is how it has always been, that is how it will always be. Complacency cannot be tolerated.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @02:23AM
the economy (read: making sure the 1% or big international corps are well catered)
The 1 Percent isn't "the economy".
About 66 percent of the economy is ordinary folks buying ordinary stuff.
...and moving a stock certificate from 1 owner to another DOESN'T INCREASE PRODUCTION.
It's a completely lateral thing.
...and it surely doesn't hire any new workers.
If the 1 Percent is, as they claim, "job creators", THEY ARE DOING A LOUSY JOB OF THAT.
international corps
Exporting jobs (as USAian Capitalists have been doing for decades) doesn't help the USAian economy.
In fact, it has the opposite effect.
Things that "USAian" corps are doing with their tax breaks that DON'T improve the economy:
-Stock buy-backs
-Increasing dividends to people who already have so much spare cash that they can speculate via the stock market
-Increasing executive compensation while continuing to screw the people who actually do the producing
Now, what -does- improve the economy is expanding production by building factories, getting more|improved equipment, and hiring more workers (who are also consumers, BTW).
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