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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, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 24 2018, @10:44PM
True Story:
A very religious Christian I knew from a former job attended one of those radical churches. Every Halloween they would have one of those "fright night" or whatever they are called plays which show graphically that sinners (in their case explicitly depicting homosexuals as hellbound among drug users and other sinners) face the wrath of God.
My coworker's character in the play was one of those sinners. As his "punishment" he was forced to be hanged using one of those harness-thingies for realism yet safety. Well, when he was lifted up, his harness snapped (he was very portly) so for a few seconds before everybody caught on he was actually being hanged.
When he showed up to work the next Monday every one of his spoken words was a raspy whisper and he wore a tall collar to hide his neck.