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AI and HRW warn of possible human rights setback with Donald Trump’s return to the White House

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[Síguenos ahora también en Whatsapp. Da clic aquí] Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) This Wednesday they warned about possible human rights setback during the Republican’s second

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Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) This Wednesday they warned about possible human rights setback during the Republican’s second term Donald Trump in the United States after winning the presidential election.

Executive Director of Amnesty USA, Paul O’Brienreminded that Trump’s first term was noted “intolerance, xenophobia and white supremacist rhetoric” what led to “massive human rights violations.”

In this sense, he emphasized that his the second term should be “different.”

The Trump Administration and all elected officials must comply with their international human rights obligations as defined in treaties signed and ratified by the United States.

According to Amnesty International, rights protection includes: “End gun violence and provide health care” for all citizens, which includes abortion. In addition, the NGO assured that respect “the rights of protesters, migrants and asylum seekers.”

Likewise, this implies a requirement that governments of other countries, including thoseWashington’s allies that they will “stop violating human rights” and that US support for “no human rights violations”referring to the situation created Israel in the Gaza Strip.

For his part, the executive director of HRW, Tirana Hasanagreed that it was essential that independent institutions and civil society groups put pressure on The Trump administration has “held accountable for abuses.”

Among these abuses HRW named asylum removal policy; family separation at the Mexican border; That promoting racist rhetoric against black communities; taking measures that punish low-income families or even their role in the January 6 insurrection.

“Donald Trump made no secret of his intention to violate human rights millions of people in the United States,” he emphasized. Hasanadding that institutions and officials should “keep the tycoon at bay.”

HRW has focused on immigration policy, which includedin the mass detention of migrants and the deportation of millions of peoplethe type of measures that will “lead to more abuses by law enforcement and will provoke new xenophobic actions.” among the American population.

The NGO referred, for example, to contradictory statements by the former president which reflected a hoax that had spread on social networks, claiming that Haitian migrants “eat” the pets of residents of the city of Springfield (Ohio).

(Europe Press)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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