Human Rights Watch’s annual report highlights politicians’ double standards and ‘transactional diplomacy’ amid escalating crises

Human rights across the world are in a parlous state as leaders shun their obligations to uphold international law, according to the annual report of Human Rights Watch (HRW).

In its 2024 world report, HRW warns grimly of escalating human rights crises around the globe, with wartime atrocities increasing, suppression of human rights defenders on the rise, and universal human rights principles and laws being attacked and undermined by governments.

The report highlights political leaders’ increasing disregard for international human rights laws. The report says “selective government outrage and transactional diplomacy” and double standards in recognising international human rights laws has put countless lives at risk.

Tirana Hassan, executive director of HRW, said: “There is a persistent assault on human rights spreading around the world as governments turn away from their legal obligations on human rights for short-term political gains and seek to consolidate power.

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  • @Fridgeratr
    4•10 months ago

    Well, a conservative white house will bomb civilians one day and tell the hungry to get bent the next. I wish we had better options, but for now, the choice is pretty clear.

    • @Cosmonauticus
      9•10 months ago

      This isn’t a contest. I’m just not letting liberals off the hook because conservatives are batshit crazy. All that does is lower the bar and makes everything worse

      • @TIMMAY
        3•10 months ago

        But the reality is that it will come to a binary choice as always, and any semi-rational american voter has to choose either to not vote or to vote between the two choices, and it is not even debatable which choice is worse in this case.

      • @webhead
        2•10 months ago

        I’ll still vote for the lesser of 2 evils because I’m practical like that but it is really annoying to see people give cover for Democrats because they’re the better party. They still suck in lots of ways. Better than complete shit is a low bar and quite frankly sometimes these causes people champion or just support in general are only because it’s same team. We bitch when conservatives do it and turn around and do the same shit. Not every criticism of a Democrat is a fucking endorsement of conservatism on the whole. Sometimes they’re just wrong.