{"id":30528,"date":"2016-11-09T08:37:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T07:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/30528-us-trump-should-govern-with-respect-for-rights.html"},"modified":"2016-11-09T08:37:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T07:37:46","slug":"us-trump-should-govern-with-respect-for-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/30528-us-trump-should-govern-with-respect-for-rights.html","title":{"rendered":"US: Trump Should Govern With Respect for Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Washington, DC) \u2013 United States<\/span><\/u><\/a> President-elect Donald Trump should abandon campaign rhetoric that seemed to reject many of the United States\u2019 core human rights obligations and put rights at the heart of his administration\u2019s domestic and foreign policy agendas, Human Rights Watch said today. Official results gave Trump the necessary electoral college votes to win.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNow that he has secured victory, President-elect Trump should move from the headline-grabbing rhetoric of hatred and govern with respect for all who live in the United States,\u201d said Kenneth Roth<\/span><\/u><\/a>, executive director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cHe found a path to the White House through a campaign marked by misogyny, racism, and xenophobia, but that\u2019s not a route to successful governance. President-elect Trump should commit to leading the US in a manner that fully respects and promotes human rights for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US presidential campaign was dominated by a number of controversial statements and policy proposals by Trump. When announcing his intent to run for president in June of 2015, Trump stated, \u201cWhen Mexico sends its people, they\u2019re not sending their best\u2026 They\u2019re sending people that have lots of problems, and they\u2019re bringing those problems with us. They\u2019re bringing drugs. They\u2019re bringing crime. They\u2019re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.\u201d He also proposed banning Muslims from entering the US.<\/p>\n

During a primary debate, Trump floated bringing back waterboarding and \u201ca hell of a lot worse.\u201d He has also stated that he would keep the Guantanamo Bay detention facility open and \u201cload it up with some bad dudes.\u201d Late in the campaign, a 2005 video of Trump appearing to brag about sexually assaulting women became a focal point of the campaign. Trump later apologized for his statements. After the release of the tape, more than a dozen women accused Trump of sexual assault.<\/p>\n

President-elect Trump will inherit enormous global and domestic human rights challenges when he takes office in January 2017, including how to address the US role in conflicts where a crushing toll in civilian lives has become the norm, whether in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, or Yemen. In Yemen, the US has become a party to an armed conflict that has seen its ally Saudi Arabia inflict devastating and indiscriminate violence on the country\u2019s civilian population.<\/p>\n

Trump has an opportunity to put his often-abhorrent campaign rhetoric behind him and place human rights at the center of his domestic and international policies. He should recognize that US government credibility in promoting rights, good governance, and the rule of law cannot be fully realized unless the US government itself demonstrates a better record on issues like the rights of women and children, criminal justice, Guantanamo, drone strikes outside conventional war zones, and justice for torture.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is difficult to press other countries to respect human rights when your own government is sometimes ignoring them,\u201d said Roth. \u201cAt home, for example, President-elect Trump should address criminal justice and immigration reform, and place special emphasis on addressing systematic racial discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the international level, Trump should focus especially on the growing global crackdown on civil society and free expression, including in Russia, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Bangladesh. His administration should also come up with new approaches to address totalitarian governments like North Korea, and press for an end to growing repression in countries whose governments are increasingly consolidating power, like Turkey.<\/p>\n

The president-elect should also seek to strengthen arms control norms by working with other countries to finalize a legal ban on fully-autonomous weapons systems (\u201ckiller robots\u201d) and taking further steps to end the US use of land mines and cluster munitions, joining international treaties that restrict their use.<\/p>\n

Beyond the federal election, several important propositions were put to voters on November 8, including whether Californians would vote to repeal the state\u2019s death penalty and whether Nebraskans choose to not reinstate capital punishment after their state legislature voted for its abolition. Several states also voted on whether to legalize the personal use of marijuana.<\/p>\n

This article was previously published by Human Rights Watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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