"Trump takes actions that violate human rights at home and abroad... his backward steps on human rights are setting a dangerous precedent for other governments to follow," the rights group said in its annual report released at an event in Washington. It said world leaders failed to prevent abuses such as the persecution of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Instead, many had offered a vision of fear, Amnesty alleged in its "State of the World's Human Rights" report for 2017. The Amnesty report called Trump's travel ban, implemented days after he took office in 2017, a "transparently hateful move". In its report, Amnesty criticized the willingness of world leaders to cry "fake news" -- a phrase popularised by Trump -- in their attacks on the media.

Source: bd News24 February 22, 2018 09:33 UTC