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, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 25 2018, @02:41AM (2 children)
You're kinda rambling there.
What have the Mexicans taken from me, and my family? Job opportunities, primarily. Tax money and medical expenses, secondarily. And, we haven't even mentioned the violent crimes committed by illegals. Funny thing about those illegals - they don't respect the law very much. They'll become gang members, if they aren't already members when they came here. They deal in drugs, and prostitution. They commit tax fraud - what, you thought that all those illegals had their own social security numbers? Tax fraud, identity theft, and related crimes are committed by the best of the illegals. Our already broken medicaid/medicare and other medical programs are strained even further, thanks to illegals who don't pay their way.
https://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11187.pdf [gao.gov]
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/07/nearly-2-billion-spent-jailing-illegal-immigrant-criminals-america-2014/ [nationalreview.com]
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/illegal-immigrants-account-107-billion-nation-s-health-care-costs-data-show [cnsnews.com]
https://www.newsmax.com/Finance/NealAsbury/Immigration-healthcare-illegal-emergency/2013/05/09/id/503579/ [newsmax.com]
For a moment, let's forget about what illegals cost us here, in the US. Do you have any idea what happens to an illegal alien in Mexico?
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/04/28/police-state-how-mexico-treats-illegal-aliens/ [michellemalkin.com]
https://www.nationalreview.com/2010/04/how-mexico-treats-illegal-aliens-michelle-malkin/ [nationalreview.com]
How does Mexico treat it's own minorities? Mosty by genocide, of course.
http://genocidewatch.net/2013/03/21/country-profile-mexico/ [genocidewatch.net] Unfortunately, that article doesn't give more than passing mention of non-Mayan and non-Aztec indigenous people in Mexico - let me try to find something better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Mexico [wikipedia.org] Some interesting maps of indigenous populations, but again, little mention of genocidal practices against those indigenous peoples.
Ahhhh, here we go - http://minorityrights.org/minorities/indigenous-peoples-4/ [minorityrights.org]
When you have digested that, get back to me. What? You thought that Mexicans were just good, loving, progressive people, who would share their own food, and the shirts off of their backs with an oppressed people? Absorb their treatment of minorities in their own home, then consider again their motivation for coming here.
La Raza isn't the Boy Scouts.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday February 25 2018, @03:22AM (1 child)
Has it occurred to you that the illegals wouldn't be "stealing jobs" if it weren't for all those big companies, Smithfield for example, "hiring" them?
Let's not be stupid here: NEITHER party TRULY wants to stop illegal immigration, because it's a source of near-slave labor and drives prices and overheads way the hell down. If you want to bitch about job-stealing illegals, bitch about the corrupt, greedy, borderline-treasonous sonsabicthes who keep fucking HIRING THEM.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 25 2018, @04:02AM
Exactly - and we're back to a statement that I've made before:
The purpose of NAFTA was to destroy Mexico's economy, freeing up all of that unskilled labor to move north. Before NAFTA, that unskilled labor was more or less tied to the land. Being freed, where were they to go? Yes, of course, as you point out, the global economy expected them to move north.
Which only points out that we are all tools of the globalists. The progressives, the capitalists, the Mexicans - all of us.