World Report launch: Human Rights Watch executive director @KenRoth making his initial presentation on “The Pushback Against the Populist Challenge”... #Rights2018
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After Trump’s election, the US saw broad reaffirmation of human rights from civic groups, journalists, lawyers, judges, and the public. -
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Trump still took regressive steps, but the reaction limited the harm done, notably his efforts to discriminate against Muslims seeking to enter the US, undermine Americans’ right to health care, and expel transgender people from the military. -
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Germany made headlines in 2017 when the Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the first far-right party to enter the Bundestag in decades. -
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But beyond economically depressed eastern parts of Germany, where widespread xenophobia has not been addressed since ‘89, AfD gained most votes in wealthy Bavaria, where CSU adopted far more of AfD’s nativist positions than did Merkel’s CDU. -
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Principled confrontation rather than calculated emulation proved more effective. -
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In Central Europe, large public protests & the threat of EU legal action challenged Poland’s efforts to undermine judicial independence & rule of law. -
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They also impeded Hungary’s plans to close CEU, a bastion of independent thought that opposed the “illiberal democracy” championed by PM Orbán. -
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In Venezuela, protesters also took to the streets in large numbers as President Nicolás Maduro’s incompetent autocracy destroyed the economy of this potentially oil-rich nation. -
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Many Latin American governments joined in, shedding their traditional reluctance to criticize a neighbor’s repression. -
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In Africa, several abusive leaders, some with blood on their hands and fearing prosecution, invoked African nationalism to plot a mass exodus of their countries from the International Criminal Court (ICC). -
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But that became a mass fizzle when an outpouring of popular support for the ICC by civic groups across Africa helped persuade most African governments to continue standing behind the court. -
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Sometimes, if more powerful states were obstructive or unhelpful, smaller states led the global defense of rights.-
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Some small countries are playing a big role in human rights. -
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The UN Human Rights Council opened an investigation of abuses by all sides in Yemen thanks to leadership of the Netherlands. -
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The UN General Assembly circumvented Russia’s Security Council veto and named a prosecutor for war crimes in Syria because of leadership from Liechtenstein.-
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Iceland led an effort at the Human Rights Council to challenge Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign of summary executions for drug suspects. -
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None of this resistance is guaranteed success. Autocrats in office have the advantage of being able to harness state power. But the resistance shows that a real struggle is underway. -
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By contrast, where domestic resistance is suppressed and international concern lacking, populists and other anti-rights forces prosper. -
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