Human Rights Watch Lists Trump as Threat to Human Rights

[Maru Kitteh]

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 Trump’s 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 Trump’s campaign, pointing to his rhetoric as a cause for worry over human rights violations.

“(Trump’s) campaign floated proposals that would harm millions of people, including plans to engage in massive deportations of immigrants, to curtail women’s rights and media freedoms, and to use torture,” the report says, quoting Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/314329-human-rights-org-lists-trump-as-threat-to-human-rights

We are now a country that overtly and openly threatens the most basic human rights of it's citizens.

[Pyke]

1. Do you not ask yourself every day,

"Is this real?"

[bdamomma]

2. Yes it's real.

And it needs to be stopped but if tRump keeps on with his remarks and comments he is sadly uneducated that all this will be flying back into his face. I'm sure the CIA will not be sitting quietly on this.

tRump is getting all his cues from Russia, and making our country less safe.

[Maru Kitteh]

3. Even though we won the vote by 3 million; I am still shocked to my core

by the apparent depth and breadth of racism and misogyny that elevated this creature and lent us this disaster.