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: 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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