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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: 5, Informative) by takyon on Saturday February 24 2018, @04:32PM (8 children)
Qatar is not Saudi Arabia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Qatar [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 3, Informative) by unauthorized on Saturday February 24 2018, @10:28PM (7 children)
What Wikipedia will not tell you is that many Qatari women face informal community-enforced laws that force them into this exact position. Sharia is widely adhered to in Qatar and the government makes no effort to stop it, if not silently condoning it.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday February 24 2018, @11:59PM (2 children)
Well, it's the Arab world. If we're to compare individual countries, what metric should be used? Annual female-driven miles per capita? Annual acid attacks per capita? Average cost of a hymen repair?
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(Score: 2) by unauthorized on Sunday February 25 2018, @02:19AM (1 child)
I have a novel idea. How about we use the "number of women facing legitimate oppression" metric?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 25 2018, @02:25AM
We have to get that number from someone. Maybe we should call the National Social Action Foundation [gulf-times.com]?
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @12:22AM (1 child)
Meh. White Sharia is being implemented in the USA at the ground level too. No, I don't mean OMG Moooooooslims.
I don't mean OMG Mooooooslims. Ok?
I mean Christians. I mean White Sharia. I mean Christian Identity. I mean fundamentalist Christianity, and not the kind that jdavidb here has described following. I'm talking full-blown thar culture.
These are the 53% of white women who voted Trump in. These are the women feminism wants to pretend don't exist. These are women who are happy to be oppressed. These are women who believe that a woman who isn't continually pregnant from ages 20 until 35 is a failure.
The neoliberals want to blame homosexual men and other assigned males with technical expertise and corral them into this “alt-right” thing. Of course, the neoliberals are also preparing for World War 3. A boot stamping on a human face forever.
It's the way the world is headed these days.
The only defense those of us who believe in gender equality and other classical liberal values have against this wave of madness is property ownership. Women who don't want to be swept up in it need to consider separatism enabled by property ownership. If women don't want to be oppressed, now is the time for women to begin valuing gun ownership.
Because the pitchforks and torches, figuratively speaking, are coming. There may be riots in every major city this year. Marching at the head of the army coming to oppress women in the West will be other women. The only way to defend liberty is with violence. Violence is the ultimate authority from which all other authority derives, and women need to be prepared to defend their liberty from women who are prepared to use violence to subjugate them to a mere reproductive function.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 25 2018, @04:04AM
If that were true, there'd be vastly more white kids in the US. Don't you have something better to do than just make shit up?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @01:51AM (1 child)
You might want to check your own backyard.
There are groups descended from European stock who treat females in bizarre ways.
For generations, The Irish Travelers have highly sexualized little girls. [google.com]
There are still Mormon enclaves where polygamy (to include young girls) is practiced.
Reactionaries in USA. who claim they want "smaller gov't", want the gov't to poke its nose into your bedroom.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday February 25 2018, @02:27AM
Those are outliers in the west, and generally outside the law, while in Muslim countries Sharia is the norm and often the law as well.
So while you're comparing two baskets of apples -- the first has one or two rotten apples, but the other has mostly rotten apples.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.