By Cecile Mantovani and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden needs to restore the country's credibility on human rights.
The head of the New-York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) slammed the outgoing US President Donald Trump for flouting human rights during his stay in the White House and stressed the need for incoming Joe Biden to restore the country’s credibility on human rights at home and abroad.
U.S. must reverse Trump course, make human rights central - HRW Reuters 1/13/2021
By Cecile Mantovani and Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden needs to restore the country s credibility on human rights at home and abroad, the head of New-York based Human Rights Watch told Reuters on Wednesday, after what he said were four years of abuse of democratic principles.
Speaking to Reuters before the release of the activist group s annual report, Kenneth Roth said outgoing president Donald Trump had flouted human rights at home and been inconsistent in criticising other countries rights records.
Biden, due to take office on Jan. 20, should make human rights a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy, said Roth, HRW executive director.
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Western media outlets have done some important reporting in recent years, shining a light on the Chinese Communist Party s myriad human rights abuses. But there s another strain of journalism that glosses over these abuses and bizarrely lionizes the regime, too often buying into and promulgating Beijing s propaganda. Axios recently published a piece exploring how China won 2020. Answers may include unleashing a pandemic on the world, lying about it, using economic extortion to help cover it up, engaging in ethnic cleansing and forced labor at state-run concentration camps, and crushing democracy in violation of international law. China is not tired of winning, it seems, and some journalists appear to be eager water-carriers. Then there s this offering from The Economist, which drew hackles across social media:
Turkey shuts down website used by India to defame Pakistan
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www.hamsvasser.com was named after Hamevasser Hebrew a weekly published from Constantinople from 1909-1911
The decision comes after the EUDisinfoLab s damning report on India s sinister anti-Pakistan agenda
The government of Turkey has shut down a website which was being used by India to defame Pakistan, announced Abdul Akbar, a diplomat at the Pakistan Embassy at Ankara.
He said the website was named after Hamevasser Hebrew , a weekly published from Constantinople from 1909-1911. The website was part of #IndianChronicles, resurrected by India to defame Pakistan in Turkey, wrote Akbar.