Human rights across the world are in a parlous state as leaders shun their obligations to uphold international law, according to the annual report of Human Rights Watch (HRW).
In its 2024 world report, HRW warns grimly of escalating human rights crises around the globe, with wartime atrocities increasing, suppression of human rights defenders on the rise, and universal human rights principles and laws being attacked and undermined by governments.
The report highlights political leaders’ increasing disregard for international human rights laws. The report says “selective government outrage and transactional diplomacy” and double standards in recognising international human rights laws has put countless lives at risk.
Tirana Hassan, executive director of HRW, said: “There is a persistent assault on human rights spreading around the world as governments turn away from their legal obligations on human rights for short-term political gains and seek to consolidate power.
I am sad/angry about all of it.
The worst part is; it’s going to get worse.
Only if we allow it to.
“selective government outrage and transactional diplomacy”
that’s how “conservatives” go through life… they greet you with selective outrage as a part of their daily transactional diplomacy…
Come on man. A liberal white house will bomb civilians one day and pass out food another. See Ukraine war and Palestinian genocide
Well, a conservative white house will bomb civilians one day and tell the hungry to get bent the next. I wish we had better options, but for now, the choice is pretty clear.
This isn’t a contest. I’m just not letting liberals off the hook because conservatives are batshit crazy. All that does is lower the bar and makes everything worse
But the reality is that it will come to a binary choice as always, and any semi-rational american voter has to choose either to not vote or to vote between the two choices, and it is not even debatable which choice is worse in this case.
I’ll still vote for the lesser of 2 evils because I’m practical like that but it is really annoying to see people give cover for Democrats because they’re the better party. They still suck in lots of ways. Better than complete shit is a low bar and quite frankly sometimes these causes people champion or just support in general are only because it’s same team. We bitch when conservatives do it and turn around and do the same shit. Not every criticism of a Democrat is a fucking endorsement of conservatism on the whole. Sometimes they’re just wrong.
he’s protecting the world from terrorism and preventing World War 3, what else do you expect from the President of the United States… go be a troll someplace else…
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silly trolls gonna troll
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just keep squawking… show everyone how loud you can cry… you’re just demonstrating the point by being selectively outraged and engaging in transactional diplomacy with someone you don’t know…
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Where’s the benefit for them I suspect is the equation today.
If they no longer fear the people, then it is time to remind them.
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Are y’all not tired of this? States only enforcing what benefits the State? Of course they’re not going to uphold international law, there needs to be an enemy to justify the existence of the State.
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