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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @12:36AM (1 child)
the new South African president, who is promising to confiscate white property and redistribute it to blacks
The phrase you're looking for is "return it".
The part that you left out is where the antecedents of the Whites there felt they had a right to take that stuff at gunpoint.
...because they had a flag. [google.com]
what's happening in Venezuela
The roots of that also go back centuries and involves White Europeans oppressing and subjugating the indigenous population.
...something which, via inherited wealth, continues to this day.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @01:32AM
The Disagree mod was intended to give you a chance to say WHY|WHERE you disagree.
When you don't add a reply, you're missing the point of this improvement to the Rehash codebase.
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