People’s rights are threatened everywhere, from wars to silence about abuses, rights group says
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A leading human rights group says people’s rights are being suppressed and threatened everywhere in the world, from wars to selective outrage about some abuses and silence about others.
By Edith M. Lederer
People’s rights are being suppressed and threatened everywhere in the world, from wars to selective government outrage about some abuses and silence about others because of ‘political expediency,’ a leading human rights group said Thursday (11 January 2024).
‘We only have to look at the human rights challenges of 2023 to tell us what we need to do differently in 2024,’ Human Rights Watch said in its annual global report.
Armed conflicts have mushroomed, leading with the Israel-Hamas war, and the issue is how governments respond to them, Tirana Hassan, the rights group’s Executive Director, told a news conference. ‘It needs to be an end to double standards.’
As an example, she said many governments quickly and justifiably condemned the ‘unlawful’ killings and atrocities by Hamas wh...
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