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: 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.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(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.