US added to human rights watchlist over Trump moves
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Source: the hill
by Elizabeth Crisp - 03/10/25 2:03 PM ET
The United States has been added to CIVICUS’s monitor list of potential human rights threats, a move the global nonprofit says is directly linked to President Trump’s actions since his return to the White House in January.
“Restrictive executive orders, unjustifiable institutional cutbacks, and intimidation tactics through threatening pronouncements by senior officials in the administration are creating an atmosphere to chill democratic dissent, a cherished American ideal,” CIVICUS interim co-Secretary General Mandeep Tiwana said in a statement. “The Trump administration seems hellbent on dismantling the system of checks and balances which are the pillars of a democratic society.”
“Gross abuses of executive power raise serious concerns over the freedoms of peaceful assembly, expression and association,” the group wrote of the U.S. rating.
CIVICUS specifically pointed to Trump’s push for mass firings of federal workers, the dismantling of foreign aid programs, his treatment of the media and efforts across the country to tamp down pro-Palestinian protests....................................
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5186108-civicus-usa-human-rights-threat-watchdog-trump/
The horrible sad thing is that Trump and his pals will consider this a badge of HONOR!!
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