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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: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday February 24 2018, @04:48PM (5 children)
In its Emergency Room, Oregon Health & Sciences University has some holding cells in which they lock psychiatric patients so as to keep a lid on their demands that their rights be respected.
The holding cells have no toilets.
Even death row inmates get toilets. Why not the mentally ill?
I first learned that one has a constitutional right to a toilet when I made some hilarity ensue in the Pasadena City Jail. They were going to put me into a toilet-less padded cell, but someone informed the deputy that I have a constitutional right to a toilet.
Those holding cells also don't have telephones. Perhaps the Emergency staff is concerned that their prisoners might ring up attorneys.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by arcz on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:40PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday February 24 2018, @08:32PM
But not just now, I was up all night getting the bad news that Free As In Freedom is synonymous with "Russian Roullette".
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday February 27 2018, @06:07AM
My project is quite close to beta. That's been putting a damper on my preferred activity of staring at my iPhone
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @07:12PM (1 child)
Right to a toilet is covered under 8th amendment:
http://jailhouselaw.org/your-right-to-be-free-from-cruel-and-unusual-punishment/ [jailhouselaw.org]
-t
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @09:33PM
One of the nearby counties charges inmates for razors and haircuts. I wonder if that would apply? AFAIK they have no contingency for the indigent to access these things.