Human Rights Watch lists Trump as threat to human rights
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Human Rights Watch lists Trump as threat to human rights
By Brooke Seipel - 01/14/17 10:01 AM EST
Human Rights Watch is listing President-elect Donald Trump as a threat to human rights, calling his campaign a vivid illustration of the politics of intolerance.
Donald Trumps election as US president after a campaign fomenting hatred and intolerance, and the rising influence of political parties in Europe that reject universal rights, have put the postwar human rights system at risk, the group said in a Friday statement announcing a new report.
The 687-page World Report analyzes Trumps campaign, pointing to his rhetoric as a cause for worry over human rights violations.
(Trumps) campaign floated proposals that would harm millions of people, including plans to engage in massive deportations of immigrants, to curtail womens rights and media freedoms, and to use torture, the report says, quoting Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth.
Unless Trump repudiates these proposals, his administration risks committing massive rights violations in the US and shirking a longstanding, bipartisan belief, however imperfectly applied, in a rights-based foreign policy agenda.
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