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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @02:57AM
The massive declines [in indigenous peoples] were not due so much to direct action by the Europeans
Yeah. Right.
Calling them savages, heathens, pagans, and saracens because they weren't Christian, thereby giving them subhuman status making them subject to whatever, [google.com] had nothing to do with it.
Driving them like cattle from the eastern woodlands to a place with a completely unfamiliar plains ecosystem had nothing to do with it.
Buffalo Bill and his ilk shooting bison by the thousands from trains in order to deplete the main source of food for the plains Indians and starve them out had nothing to do with it.
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