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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 ants_in_pants on Sunday February 25 2018, @06:32PM
I don't know, you can be executed in the street for essentially no reason and the killer can get away with it, and if the CIA reallly wants to they can disappear you and torture you however much they want. A larger share of the population is in prison(the conditions of which have, in other cases, been considered violations of basic human rights) than was ever in the Gulag system. Having a felony on your record, which in many states you can get just for having lots of pot, makes you a pariah. You have no rights less than 50 miles from a national border. ICE can and does strip away citizenship of naturalized citizens, then deport them. Gang violence is a real threat to far too many people. Economically the country is a lot more like Mexico than Germany. And to top it off bribes are legal and the government is very clearly more interested in receiving lots of bribes than in fixing any of these problems.
I don't think Cheetoh Benito is directly the cause of any of this, but he is certainly not helping.
-Love, ants_in_pants