{"id":90644,"date":"2017-02-21T20:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T01:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90644"},"modified":"2017-02-21T20:30:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T01:30:24","slug":"amnesty-blames-trump-others-in-global-rollback-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/21\/amnesty-blames-trump-others-in-global-rollback-of-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty blames Trump, others in global rollback of rights."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amnesty International says \u201ctoxic\u201d fear-mongering by anti-establishment politicians, among them President Donald Trump and the leaders of Turkey, Hungary and the Philippines, is contributing to a global pushback against human rights. (Photo: Donald J Trump\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PARIS\u2014Amnesty International says \u201ctoxic\u201d fear-mongering by anti-establishment politicians, among them President Donald Trump and the leaders of Turkey, Hungary and the Philippines, is contributing to a global pushback against human rights.<\/p>\n

Releasing its 408-page annual report on rights abuses around the world Wednesday, the watchdog group described 2016 as \u201cthe year when the cynical use of ‘us vs. them’ narratives of blame, hate and fear took on a global prominence to a level not seen since the 1930s,\u201d when Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany.<\/p>\n

Amnesty named Trump, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte among leaders it said are \u201cwielding a toxic agenda that hounds, scapegoats and dehumanizes entire groups of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPoisonous\u201d rhetoric employed by Trump in his election campaign exemplified \u201cthe global trend of angrier and more divisive politics,\u201d Amnesty said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe limits of what is acceptable have shifted. Politicians are shamelessly and actively legitimizing all sorts of hateful rhetoric and policies based on people’s identity: misogyny, racism and homophobia. The first target has been refugees and, if this continues in 2017, others will be in the crosshairs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group’s annual report, \u201cThe State of the World’s Human Rights,\u201d documented what it called \u201cgrave violations of human rights\u201d in 159 countries in 2016.<\/p>\n

Amnesty said governments \u201cturned a blind eye to war crimes, pushed through deals that undermine the right to claim asylum, passed laws that violate free expression, incited murder of people simply because they are accused of using drugs, justified torture and mass surveillance, and extended draconian police powers.\u201d<\/p>\n

It added that \u201cthe big question in 2017 will be how far the world lets atrocities go before doing something about them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Exceptionally, London-based Amnesty chose to launch its report in Paris.<\/p>\n

Salil Shetty, the group’s secretary-general, said France has used emergency powers introduced in 2015 in the wake of terror attacks in an abusive and \u201cdeeply discriminatory\u201d manner, confining more than 600 people, mostly Muslins, under house arrest and banning more than 140 protests.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven states that once claimed to champion rights abroad are now too busy rolling back human rights at home to hold others to account,\u201d Amnesty said. \u201cThe more countries backtrack on fundamental human rights commitments, the more we risk a domino effect of leaders emboldened to knock back established human rights protections.\u201d<\/p>\n

France’s government has repeatedly defended the emergency powers as a necessary safeguard against the severe terror threat it says is facing the country, and parliament has repeatedly voted to extend those powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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