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

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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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Immerman on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:20PM

    by Immerman (3985) on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:20PM (#643101)

    >an admission that America gave up on meritocracy of some kind
    It never has been. Capitalism and meritocracy are very nearly diametrically opposed - in capitalism, possession of substantial capital is the overpowering "merit", and capital passes almost exclusively down the lines of family dynasties. There is the occasional "rags to riches" story, but they are, by the necessity of limited resources, extremely rare. And very often littered with deeply unethical behavior if you read between the lines.

    >any group is weaker divided
    Of course. Why do you suppose division is fostered? Keep the white, brown, and black working men at each other's throats, and they don't have the strength or energy to unify against the executive class that's screwing them all over. Hell, the entire concept of "white" was manufactured to unify opposition to the other skin colors - prior to that in the U.S. you were Polish, French, German, etc., but as cultures blended together over time a new, more obvious cause for division was needed.

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