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This is the 2nd time we’ve launched our World Report in Berlin. We chose Germany because of its new UN Security Council seat and because Germany’s voice on behalf of human rights has become so important. ~
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@HRW’s Executive Director@KenRoth will present his take on the situation of human rights globally, based on his keynote essay: “World’s Autocrats Face Rising Resistance”#Rights2019 (We’ll take questions from Twitter afterwards.)pic.twitter.com/AJPtNynI3i
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“The autocrats have been capturing the headlines these days, but as we look back on the last year, what struck us is that the defenders of human rights, democracy and the rule of law are also gaining strength.” ~
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“The populists who spread hatred and intolerance are spawning a resistance. The excesses of autocratic rule are fueling a counterattack.” ~
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“That’s not to diminish the problem. Brazil’s new President Bolsonaro is the latest authoritarian example.” ~
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“Bolsonaro joins the ranks of such established figures as Turkey’s Erdogan, Egypt’s Sisi, the Philippines’ Duterte, Hungary’s Orbán, Russia’s Putin, and China’s Xi Jinping.” ~
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“Even in Western democracies, autocratic policies were advanced by such leaders as Italy’s Salvini and America’s Trump.” ~
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“To make matters worse, some govts have taken advantage of this trend to commit mass atrocities, including in Syria (against civilians in anti-govt areas), Myanmar (against Rohingya) & Yemen (where the Saudi-led coalition is bombing & blockading civilians)”
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“That’s the bad news. But what’s impressive over the past year is the considerable pushback that this authoritarianism has prompted.” ~
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“People took to the streets in Poland and Hungary. Voters ousted corrupt or authoritarian rules in Malaysia, the Maldives, and Armenia.” ~
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“Popular pressure led to a new reformist prime minister in Ethiopia. US midterm voters rebuked Trump’s divisive policies.” ~
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“Much of the pushback played out at the UN—even though many of the large Western powers were often unwilling to join in the defense of human rights.” ~
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“As we know, Trump preferred to embrace friendly autocrats. Britain was preoccupied with Brexit. France’s Macron spoke a good game but often fell short in practice. Here in Germany, Chancellor Merkel was often beset by political challenges.” ~
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“Meanwhile, China and Russia did all they could to undermine global rights enforcement.” ~
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“Against this challenging backdrop, the leaders of the resistance were frequently coalitions of small- and mid-sized states, including some nontraditional allies.” ~
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“Rather than retreat alongside the larger powers, they stepped forward and assumed greater responsibility, especially at the UN Human Rights Council. In the process, the established several new and important precedents.” ~
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“For example, with respect to Myanmar, the possibility of a Chinese, Russian, or even American veto at the UN Security Council appeared to doom any effort torefer to the ICC the army’s crimes against humanity that sent 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh”
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“In response, the Human Rights Council, where there is no veto, created for the first time an investigative mechanism to preserve evidence, identify those responsible, and build cases for prosecution once a tribunal becomes available.” ~
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“That signaled that these atrocities cannot be committed with impunity.” ~
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“In an unusual partnership, the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation joined the European Union to co-present the council’s resolution on the Rohingya.” ~
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“Until Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya, the OIC had never supported a resolution criticizing a country other than Israel.” ~
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“With respect to the war crimes in Yemen, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Canada took the lead, as the Human Rights Council rejected Saudi Arabia’s heavy-handed effort to avoid scrutiny of the war crimes in Yemen.” ~
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“Despite Saudi threats of economic retaliation, the Council continued an international investigation started last year.” ~
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“For the first time, the UN Human Rights Council condemned the severe repression in Venezuela under Maduro. A group of Latin American nations sponsored that effort.” ~
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“The US departure from the council under Trump ironically made it easier to succeed, because it let the resolution sponsors show they were addressing Venezuela as a matter of principle rather than as a tool of Washington’s ideology.” ~
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“A group of Latin American governments led by Argentina also organized in the context of the Human Rights Council the first joint statement on the worsening repression in Nicaragua, as President Ortega responded with violence to growing protests against his repressive rule.”
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“Apart from the Human Rights Council, the International Criminal Court remained important. Five Latin American governments and Canada urged it to open an investigation of crimes in Venezuela…” ~
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“This was the first time that any government has sought an ICC investigation of crimes that took place entirely outside its territory. France and Germany, among others, supported the move.” ~
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“The ICC also pursued a novel idea for pursuing Myanmar generals. Even though Myanmar isn’t an ICC member, the ICC is examining the crime of ‘deportation,’ on the theory that that crime wasn’t completed until the Rohingya arrived in Bangladesh, which is an ICC member.”
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