BEIRUT: Governments increasingly view human rights as “a luxury” they can ill afford, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, warning that abuses fuel crises in world trouble spots like Syria and Ukraine.
Western powers, including the United States, are far from blameless and in some cases their wrongdoing has fed the very climate in which serial rights abusers like Islamic State group jihadists thrive.
Ignoring human rights while addressing global security risks “fails to get at the root causes that gave rise to many of these threats,” HRW director Kenneth Roth told reporters in Beirut.
Even as it seems that “the world is unravelling,” …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
