council i believe human rights watch the text is a very important element in the u.n. human rights is one of the pillars of united nations and i hope that. so little later sooner rather than later the u.s. will be able to come back as i said i strongly believe that in today's world we need multilateral responses they're american side they have both criticism and bias as their reasons for their walkout and.

council i believe human rights a text is a very important element in the un human rights is one of the pillars of united nations and i hope that. so little later sooner rather than later the u.s. will be able to come back but as i said i strongly believe that in today's world we need multilateral responses they're american side they have both criticism and bias as their reasons for their walkout and the united nations security council certainly is not the only body to criticize either israel or the united states for that matter i wonder if you have any concerns at all whether that kind of pass then could be repeated and if the united states can pull out from the united nations altogether accessible i mean let's let's be clear the united states plays a very important role in the where i sit is a founding member like the russian deflation. and of course used to be out of one or two areas that are more i would say the other thing is to be of course involved in the sensitivity of it is of the when and i believe these will go on more tr

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know that you served as the chairman of the parliamentary subcommittee on human rights i assume this issue is near and dear to your heart. how do you think the international community should approach that subject when it talks to north korea you know human rights as to sion i think is one of the most fundamental with shouldn't we human beings achieve and at any cost against anybody this should be protected we have this humanist instinct actually of protecting each other therefore when the reasons you know problem with human rights you need to talk about them but i'm sure you know that there is very deep skepticism at least in this country that western countries may be instrumental lising the issue of human rights too much exaggerating it when it is politically expedient ignoring it when it's politically inconvenient do you think the current international discourse of human rights is genuine and productive in terms of actual have trusting the subject i believe it's genuine i believe it's genuine but of course you know we're not in heaven we're on planet earth and this plac

muslim population human rights watch calls at the world's most overlooked human rights crisis the persecution of good muslims in shin jump province its annual report released earlier this month i liked of the plight of more than a million weaker is being detained in so-called reeducation centers china has justified its crackdown by portraying islam as a dangerous ideology and linking it to radicalization and terrorism critics say the negative coverage and stereotyping is fueling a wave of islamophobia across the country got us wondering what is bullying has been looking into the effect it's had on china's most of my daughter to it's not unusual for iran to get offended when he logs into china's social networks the right is keenly aware of the growing islamophobia wave spreading through the country including the so-called anti holo movement who supporters accuse muslims of dividing the country they're calling on airlines and universities to stop serving a lot of food dishes prepared according to muslim law china's internet censors have nothing against these kinds of messages what do you hear for sure the goal of this movement is to clamp down on muslims. who are the sure what i

still pledge support for human rights and i think we're only going to see more human rights rhetoric but even more cynicism and debate about law. what i can tell you is that in the human rights community, there are huge debates, not about israel but about whether or not human rights can stop the genocides in syria, whether neck stop civil wars and deal with the economic issues that people on the left and right often point to now as drivers of strife. there's a debate there too about that. i don't know where that will go but it's guaranteed to consume more of the focus of those organizations who have said maybe we need to grapple with those questions. > yes. >> two questions. one to do with european adoption of laws which get rid to have first amend concept in terms of hate and where they originated from. and the second question goes to morris abrams' early life. worked in his 1954 campaign and he had the overwhelming support of the african-american community. later in life, he and vernon jordan split, probably over quotas, but i wish you would deal with both of those. >> i'm very happ

well of course i would strongly prefer they said since it is the first moment that united states would stay in the human rights council i believe human rights are the texture is a very important element in the un human rights is one of the pillars of united nations and i hope that. so little later sooner rather than later the us will be able to come back but as i said i strongly believe that in today's world we need multilateral responses and their american side they're both criticism and bias as their reasons for their walkout and the united nations security council certainly is not the only body to criticize either israel or be united states for that matter i wonder if you have any concerns at all whether that kind of precedent could be repeated and if the united states can pull out from the united nations altogether accessible i mean let's let's be clear the united states plays a very important role in the where i sit is a founding member like the russian federation. and of course used to be out of one or two areas that are more i would say the other thing is to be of course involved in the center of the d.

i think. has moved on and it is now down to two human rights agenda i think human rights groups and ultimately to turkey to really decide whether they want to come up with the full evidence they hold or they are still in waiting to see what others can can find out i personally think there is much more that turkey is holding on this on the killing carl do you think do you agree with that that turkey knows much more and that perhaps at some point we may know that. i don't know is my own sense of. i would argue a great extent i would be surprised if turkey had completely sure of its hand our wealth buries a lot more evidence to call i honestly don't know what what words and sorry are but i wouldn't be surprised if there was more to be disclosed presence. can somebody say can something truly concrete karl and can something truly concrete come from this process at the rapid tor has started. where depends on our way we view something truly concrete as my colleague so planners sat twenty one people have been accused in riyadh nine of those are indicted and again as is being said i. get the feeling th

hundreds of thousands of ethnic muslim we go are being detained in reeducation camps according to human rights i. our camera team was stopped by guards when we approached one of them and we were headed for our usual or a level jet that was hit that all the knowledge would come on. and ron is one of few chinese intellectuals who have openly criticized the state's persecution of the weak has this has led to police questioning him for two days he says he is afraid but refuses to remain silent. well i once you speak the truth and the communist party takes offense at you they will certainly take their revenge at some point you shutting up will not protect you. and run fear is the worst the chinese muslims may be able to come. for me now for more on the stories morocco is a research associate of berlin's mcatee institute for china studies and expert in chinese media policy america thank you for coming in if i can just ask you at the very outset if you're the chinese muslim. in believing in china how is your life compared to somebody who is not a muslim i mean it depends how much your life is disrupted

and in fact in those days, i represented certain values, like the respect of human rights, the respects rights. i am anti—fascist. so all these values were considered so important that they decided i had to be the third in office. but not appreciated by everybody. because you very quickly became the subject of online threats of the most despicable nature. yes, yes, because i was outspoken. is that why? because you were outspoken? yeah, because i am outspoken, because i do not hide myself, because i think it is needed to provoke reactions and to have a real debate on certain issues. and because, you know, i am an independent figure. so it was very easy to take me as a target, a woman. who was targeting you? well, i think it was, at the beginning, the five star movement, you know, the leader... that's what we call the populist coalition that came into being several years ago, around 2013. yeah. so the leader, beppe grillo, one day came out with a very simple question on his blog. "what would you do with boldrini in a car?" so, the comments were just awful. sexist, violent, they werejust

council i believe the human rights of the text is a very important element in the un human rights is one of the pillars of united nations and i hope that. so little later sooner rather than later the u.s. will be able to come back as i said i strongly believe that in today's world we need multilateral responses they're american side they're both criticism and bias as their reasons for their walkout and the united nations security council certainly is not the only body to criticize either israel or the united states for that matter i wonder if you have any concerns at all whether that kind of precedent could be repeated and if the united states can pull out from the united nations altogether accessible i mean let's let's be clear the united states plays a very important role in the where i sit is a founding member like of the russian deflation.

of thousands of ethnic muslim we go are being detained in reeducation camps according to the human rights i. our camera team was stopped by guards when we approached one of them and we were held for our usual as. well which it was here that don't live on the ranch we come on. and ron is one of few chinese intellectuals who have openly criticized the state's persecution of the week is this has led to police questioning him for two days he says he is afraid but refuses to remain silent who. wants to speak the truth and the communist party takes offense to deal with and they will certainly take their revenge at some point if shutting up will not protect your. young man culture that's here and around fears the worst for chinese muslims may be yet to come. it's soccer news now in the bonus league abut munich have been playing catch up to first place dortmund all season but they've once again moved within six points of the league leaders thanks to an emphatic when it stood. by him munich piled on the pressure from the start things they come on separate blocks but the bali bench where they landed

sustained coordinated effort perhaps from other european countries other western countries pushing on human rights i mean human rights watch says egypt has sixty thousand political prisoners i mean that's extraordinary that number has never been that on the mubarak it's it's just it's probably the first time in egypt's history that has that figure in political prisons on one on one and on the other and you have an administration in the us that is not very interested in the human rights record and you have less and less coordinated pressures on egypt the pressures come individually. as the macro obviously you know is one case but also the whole you did appear in parliament as more the more. vocal in terms of the criticism but there's no sustained pressure it's mostly a rhetoric and then after that you know the report to reuters that in twenty seventeen he gave him a list of a few activists to be released and that a sponsor of. all of these are linked to the muslim brothers and this was the key word and there was nothing let's talk about libya if we can because that's the other item which both leaders

human rights are being weaponized against rivals where the whole narrative is so realistic it's actually obscene to invoke democracy to destroy democracy is obscene to invoke human rights to destroy human rights i mean america is not for made venezuelans home version of the lect if they elected massively chavez again and again and they elected a little in two thousand and thirteen fourteen two thousand eight hundred it is reported that the united states is currently training for and lawyers in how to draft a legislation to impose further sanctions on the bill of varian republic of venezuela in an effort to is fix the venezuelan state institutions who is costing who is aggravating the problem this sanctions have aggravated the problem the economic war have aggravated the problem when other little. needed anti in leiria medicine for an outbreak in november two thousand and seventeen wanted to buy it in colombia colombia refuse to sell there are hundreds hundreds of cases in which the financial transactions that every state needs to survive have been blocked because citibank or wells fargo have close the accounts off of it as well and it disquieting media campaign seeks to force observers into a p

policy on human rights because i think secretary pompei as answer about human rights was so dismissive to the u.s. journalist to us the question i mean it actually goes beyond the pale because he could at least address some of the issues that were addressed by his by america's own network c.b.s. sixty minutes program when they asked him about the sixty thousand or tens of thousands of political prisoners and and other human rights issues the other issues i think that was quite interesting to to hear it's been repeated but to hear it that way in the long summing by gyptian four minutes of that and al qaida on the one hand and the muslim brotherhood on the other hand to say that they're all terrorists stemming from the same place and that the counter-terrorism between the united states and egypt needs to go along those lines i think that's of course both long and dangerous in the sense that we all know that those that the unit that egypt is involved in a diet. what in gaza and brotherhood we know the muslim brotherhood have won election in egypt itself before the by general sisi they are

will be, number one, you will eliminate human rights violations all around the world because as you all now, liberal democraties don't violate human rights and i if the he world i accompliced of only liberal democracies it is taken over the table. if the world is pride over nothing but liberal democracies you'll get peace because they don't fight each other, according to the liberal story and once you get peace the terrorism problem is taken off the fable the proliferation problem taken off the table and thes the great seven fit is you make the world safe for democracy, inside any liberal state you have elements that-under inunhappy with liberalism, may be communist and those people who don't like liberalism seek allies in other countries, i.e. communist looking to the soviet union to help them. but if the worlds comprised of only liberal democracy, those disenchanted people inside your liberal democracy have no foreign ally, wood dre will son referred to this as making the world safe for democracy. this is liberal hegemony. >> can you walk us through the failures of this exitment -- commitment. >> the first is the bush doctrine and the bush d

going to end up with what we have today i don't see any i mean we've we've kind of hit peak humanity right i mean we've gone past the looking glass humanity peaked right jeremy. yes well your money did in the sense of the human some planet earth but i think that there are human he has a sense a few humanity it should never be in our hearts and i think that the we should keep an eye at least to making things fair you are nineteen seeing what you say are a great example was for instance pocket mungo maybe someone still remembers it why here go ok men go create and i gave money and sent it for teenagers but not only does she play these games online and go to places to get their points and this situation created security problems because places where flooded in new york and it did the mayor actually warned people and to police it to about him and affect it it actually drove teenagers to to fraud end and call the place itself in the netherlands we have a teenage just crossing railways looking for pocket money so you see that it's absolutely right what you say we can manipulate people even we don'

around the fourth attribute i identify, which is the idea that i don't actually use the term human rights. i use the term individual rights, but not human rights. i speak repeatedly about values and i honestly believe this is a matter of the editing process. [ laughter ] blamed the editor. the fundamental thrust of what i am speaking here is of liberty and equality and the role of these values that derek just raised in us foreign policy. i believe it's absolutely essential and i go further and underscore what matt was just talking about with respect to the institutions. because what i say in the piece is that the founders believed not just an individual rights, but in the common good. in this since they were were just small democrats but small republicans they embraced the idea that we pursue those interests and liberty can only be preserved through those institutions. and so i this institutional point with maps onto how we think about how the international order more broadly as incredibly more important. now the argument i make in the piece is that there are kind of two critiques of the rol

i think that will continue and be robust. >> and ambassador zumwalt it a different kind of human rights issue. but i know japan has been focused on the abductee issue and still is. is human rights in north korea also part of the japanese agenda. >> the japanese agenda certainly includes resolution of the issue of japanese abducted from japan and brought to north korea. it's got to be a very tough issue to resolve. and i think the united states thus far has taken the very good approach of acknowledging this is a human rights concern. and because we support improvements in human rights this is an issue that north korea has to deal with. fundamentally it's a bilateral issue or issue between japan and north korea. but i think the u.s. support can be in terms of our values. >> okay thank you. ambassador you yun i'll give you a question other than yes or no. more air time. . the new year's address kim jong un called to for sanctions relief and said without it the current process could come to an end. >> right. >> do you see the administration being oem open to sanctions relief and when and wh

hundreds of thousands of ethnic muslim we go are being detained in reeducation camps according to human rights i. our camera team was stopped by guards when we approached one of them and we were headed for allegations. leveled at him that don't live on the ranch we come on. and ron is one of few chinese intellectuals who have openly criticized the state's prosecution of the week is this has led to police questioning him for two days he says he is afraid but refuses to remain silent who. wants to speak the truth and the communist party takes offense to deal with and they will certainly take their revenge at some point if shutting up will not protect your hotel yet one quarter leads here and around fears the worst for chinese muslims may be yet to come. well let's cross over to beijing where understand our correspondent is boiling it can join as i say in no great material tell us first of all china is a muslim community as we saw in your report is dealing with growing restrictions and even frets in some case how is that community dealing with it well i think we have to see the two cases apart whic

ocracy you are a case for solution and i am in private against the submarine in the name of the european of their use not in the money the respect of human rights and i am for really for europe are strongly for the our constitution that is is just the start of every day by his government. and that was speaking with us earlier here's a reminder of that story we're following for you hundreds of patients have had their personal information hacked the stolen data includes. credit card details posted to twitter security agencies are investigating but it's not yet known who is responsible if you're watching live from. with more world news followed by the day i hope to see you that. it's a real problem because there is no i knew about everyone writes that. and then. the great thing is.

hundreds of thousands of ethnic muslim we go are being detained in reeducation camps according to human rights i. our camera team was stopped by guards when we approached one of them and we were headed for allegations. that would you like to see that on live on the ranch we come on. and ron is one of few chinese intellectuals who have openly criticized the state specific usually of the week it was this has led to police questioning him for two days he says he is afraid but refuses to remain silent. when you turn once you speak the truth and the communist party takes offense at you with them they will certainly take their revenge at some point you shutting up will not protect your. young man. and ron fears the worst for chinese muslims may be yet to come. how are chinese muslims dealing with these growing restrictions and the threats you imagine. i think we need to see two cases separately once there is the massive repression the totally tarion oppression of week is and other turkic muslim communities in scenes young in the western region there are a deep mistrust of the communist party against m

human rights. dave has e—mailed, iam breaches your human rights. dave has e—mailed, ibreaches your human rights. dave has e—mailed, i am 67, when i was 15, i spent time in an approved school of one offence of stealing from parked ca rs. one offence of stealing from parked cars. my life has been ruined because of this, which happened over 50 yea rs because of this, which happened over 50 years ago. bill said would the bbc want to employ some body guilty of battering or defrauding somebody? do we stop women learning about the violent past of men with a history of domestic violence because it would interfere with the criminal‘s human rights? i don't think so. louisa says my children were placed on child protection because of my mental health. they were never harmed and the case was closed because they were happy. i was safe. i now can't get work. there needs to bea i now can't get work. there needs to be a dbs check and it comes up on it. i need to do a dbs to work in care, and it is difficult because of that. i have never had a criminal past, but i feel that i am treated

even as those miners depended on canaries to save their lives, when it comes to human rights, as i am going to explain in a few minutes, jehovah's witnesses are the canaries in the coal mine of human rights. in the following minutes, i would like to discuss four questions with you and respond to them. first, are jehovah's witnesses social activist? if not, then why are they engaged in so much litigation? and why are the legal struggles of jehovah's witnesses, canaries in the coal mine of human rights, of interest to you and to me? and finally, how how what they have advanced here helped not just in the united states but worldwide? a small time ago, a small group of jehovah's witnesses were gathered together to study the bible. there were relatively few, so they were not meeting in a kingdom hall that in a private home. this evening, something unusual happened. three men knocked on the door and asked if they could join the small group. of course they were surprised, but they invited the men in, they gave him a bible. with the man did not know if these men were government agents. they h

they talk about the struggle jehovah's witnesses and her advance human and civil rights globally. >> i am privileged to introduce our speaker. bromley will be presenting the topic, jehovah's in the coalanaried mine of human rights. ladies and gentlemen, phil bromley. [applause] privilege is a real to be here at the jackson center to commemorate the anniversary of west virginia v. barnette. we want to thank mr. peterson, mr. loftis for what they have done in collaborating with the jackson center. as mentioned, the title of our consideration is jehovah's witnesses, canary in the home lin coal mine of human rights. is a dangerous job. you hear of collapses all the time. miners face another danger. is was is gases. as recently as 1980, coal miners had the custom of caring canaries -- carrying canaries with them deep into earth. anatomy,f their canaries receive one dose of austin with a brief and and another dose of oxygen when they breathe out and as a result, they get a double dose of air. that means canaries are more susceptible to toxic gases like carbon monoxide detector i. and methane

a big country like brazil that just that, and on issues like the environment, on issues like human rights, in to be quite sceptical of what he'll do. and, of course, if he does badly in those areas, there's a risk that those things will bleed into the economy as well. all those references to family values, ideology and socialism, is that red meat for his base, or do you see that he is going to try and enact substantive policies? well, that's kind of the question facing brazil right now, it's a good question. i think his supporters want to see a crackdown on socialism and on communism, which is a bit absurd because communists haven't really been a majorforce in brazil for a very long time. but what most of the country hears when they hear bolsonaro talk about this campaign against socialism is they hear him wanting to turn the page on these last 14 years during which the workers‘ party, the left—wing workers‘ party ruled for most of that time. and that is something that most brazilians want to see, and so i think that for some people, they take his discourse about socialism symbolically. i th

conference here in berlin the executive director of human rights watch can if roth he paid a visit to us at the headquarters of news right here and i spoke with him about the state of human rights in the world and why there is plenty of reason to be optimistic. it is good to see you again good to be here i noticed today at the press conference the message you have the headlight message was a positive one you said that there is this trend of countries people working against all recruits where do you see that well you know i think when you read the headlines you autocrats capture the headlines and say i think it's all bad names but when we went back and reviewed the past year the real news for us was the resistance the autocrats were spawning this pushback that has been quite powerful and has won a large number of battles and not only in easy places but in tough places like syria yemen myanmar with respect to the rohingya and so you know in each of those cases we saw groups of governments come together and exert real pressure in defense of human rights and the other place we saw people take to the streets for example in poland hungar

i will see that continuing. >> it is a different kind of a human rights issue, and i think japan is been very focused they have the issue and still does. >> the japanese agenda certainly includes revelation of the issue of the japanese i was abducted from japan and taken to north korea. >> it would be a very tough issue to resolve and i think united states is taking the approach of acknowledging this is a human rights concern and we support improvement in human rights, this is an issue that north korea has to deal with. fundamentally, it is an issue between north korea and japan, but i think the u.s. support can help in terms of our value. >> the new year's address, kim jong un called for sanctions relief and said without it, the process could be coming to an end. you see the administration been open to sanctions relief? >> yes, i think they are open to that, but it is a question of what do we get by giving up sanctions or giving some relief to sanctions? i think what is emerging is that he wants sanctions relief and in particular, reopening the industrial complex. i think you are going