Blinken rejects Pompeo’s human rights rankings in rollout of global report

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken rejected his predecessor’s efforts to create a ranking of human rights as he unveiled the State Department’s annual global report on the topic

The State Department’s yearly Human Rights Report has long been considered a valuable resource for activists, lawyers, historians and others, including members of Congress, which sets the foreign affairs budget.

In his cover statement, Blinken wrote that “some governments used the crisis as a pretext to restrict rights and consolidate authoritarian rule,” and that “women and children faced heightened risk as the prevalence of gender-based and domestic violence increased due to lockdowns and the loss of traditional social protections.”

In Italy, the report states: “The suspension of family visits enacted as part of the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic initially triggered prison riots. Between March 7 and April 20, approximately 10,000 inmates rioted in 49 of the 194 detention centers countrywide, resulting in the death of 13 detainees.”

Instead, it included a section titled “coercion in population control.” That section largely covered topics such as whether people faced forced abortions or sterilizations in other countries.

 

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I reject anything having to with Pompeo so I’m totally on board!

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Of course he does, the US would look very bad ...... ^^

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