WASHINGTON: 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 jihadists thrive.
“Human rights violations played a major role in spawning or aggravating most of today’s crises,” argued Kenneth Roth, director of the US-based watchdog, as HRW unveiled its annual report.
Even as it seems that “the world is unravelling,” he warned, many …read more
Source: theSun
