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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: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @08:09PM (2 children)
Article 6 gets you your fair trial. OK, fair enough. Then what? Here is what: you lose it all.
I'd kind of enjoy torturing bad people to death. It's messy and probably low pay, so I wouldn't pick it for a career, but maybe a few times a year I'd do it for free. (thus the low pay -- supply and demand determines that) Lots and lots of us would occasionally work for free. Think how many people would be happy to just shoot the bastards, without any of that nonsense with blank ammo. Start slowly, with lots of non-fatal shots, maybe even having a contest to see how many separate shots can be taken before a death.
Just yesterday, as I was having anchovy pizza, I couldn't help but imagine how it would be interesting to inject somebody with anchovy paste. It could be an IV. I'd love to try that. Die fucker, die!!! Then my mind went to other things I could inject. Disease-ridden poo would be good. Bleach would be good.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday February 25 2018, @09:03PM
I see you read the Daily Express.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 26 2018, @03:46AM
Has it occurred to you yet that when you stoop to the level of a monster you become a monster as well? I could definitely kill people, but not torture them; one single clean shot to the back of the head level with the brain stem.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...