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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: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday February 25 2018, @08:41AM (4 children)
They are not talking about me, either, Runaway! Progressivism is asserting something about the entire species! Of course there will be some throwbacks, like yourself, but it is all within the margins of error to the great statistical progress to less violence, greater reason, more technology, and fewer Republicans. And, as a personal aside, you have no idea how my ideas have progressed. Having the Heliocentric model verified? Well, OK, I already knew that would happen. But Chemistry? Microbiology? Electricity? Nuclear weapons: my ideas have progressed well beyond what I thought I knew, and now I recommend the same path to you, oh curmudgeonly Runaway. Open your mind. Not too late to get an education. Community College is particularly recommended, in spite of how much old fart students like you disrupt classes. At least you could serve as a negative example to younger students.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 25 2018, @08:51AM (3 children)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVs9psi_G5k [youtube.com]
There is some evolution for you.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday February 25 2018, @09:12AM (2 children)
I have told you many times, Runaway, that I never click on youtube links. Especially without description and explanation of how it is relevant. I expect that you, as many students these days, are only capable of taking in information if it is presented visually, what some educators call "The Fox Effect". This leaves you, and them, severely vulnerable to psychological manipulation, by corporations and especially by the Russians, who are past masters of this, even before the Internets.
So, my dear unreconstructed troglydite, you can keep your youtube link, and whatever you hoped to prove thereby remains unseen, and most likely, obscene. And once again, you are wrong.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 25 2018, @04:07PM (1 child)
Yeah, those Yoogoober links are death for a computer, you goober. I expect that in your dotage, you can't see or hear the youtube links. I'll try not to remember that you need text sites, so that your braille keyboard can read them to you.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 26 2018, @03:56AM
Jesus, who pissed in *your* whole-grain Oaty-Os this morning?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...