Especially the human rights violations of China and Saudi Arabia, denounces Human Rights Watch in World Report in 2019. Also in European countries there is criticism. However, the reason for quiet optimism.
In spite of all the violations of human rights: Not all of them want to see the authors of the “World report 2019” black
Wenzel Michalski takes a deep breath. Michalski is the Director of the Human rights organization Human Rights Watch in Germany (HRW). In the morning, the global Organisation has published its annual “World Report”, a several Hundred-page report on the Situation of human rights.
The biggest worry child, because Michalski in an interview with DW, no doubt, this year is China. Especially the government in Beijing, the 56-Year-old is not a good hair: “to report anything Positive,” there is. “There is in the country to a complete destruction of the freedom of expression and civil society, which previously was only sporadically available. There is a state of total surveillance with face detection. Chinese President Xi Jinping, is increasingly becoming a dictator.” As if all this were not enough, the Chinese government attempts on top of that, the so-called “Belt and Road”to carry the Initiative is now also your “policy model of human-rights violations” in the world.
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China, Trump and Saudi Arabia
Since 1989, HRW published the report. Authoritarian States, in which the rights of children, women and men are being abused are generally the focus of the Reports. This year, Wenzel Michalski emphasized in an interview with DW, the human rights activists in addition to all the state people structures into the field of view is taken: “In this year, the focus is on autocratic or populist with authoritarian tendencies, and the resistance of the upset against these characters.”
In addition to the Chinese government, are also in this year old friends that are listed in the report: U.S. President Donald Trump gets away, mainly because of his harsh way of dealing with refugees from Latin America to be fat, Saudi Arabia appears twice: Once because of the killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi, on the other hand because of the brutal war against the neighboring country of Yemen. Since 2014, the war shattered the rebels by Saudi Arabia and other Arab States supported the forces of President Abd Rabbo Mansur Hadi and the Shiite Houthi behind which Iran is the country. According to the United Nations (UN) have been killed in the conflict already more than 10,000 people, among them thousands of civilians. In the country the worst humanitarian crisis according to the UN, worldwide.
Wenzel Michalski, Director of Human Rights Watch, Germany: China is the biggest worry child
European populists in the view
Human and civil rights violations, the human rights advocate for HRW, also in Europe. In may, Europe in the European Union (EU) elections. On all country borders, there are parties, and the EU to reject, in its present Form: in addition to the AfD in Germany, for example, the Italian Lega, the Austrian freedom party, the Hungarian Fidesz party, or in France, the Rassemblement National of Marine Le Pen, who will try to undermine the values of the EU with right-wing populist theses.
It is thus hardly surprising that – from the point of view of Wenceslas Michalsk – some of the EU member States is not a good picture make. The authors of the world report back, especially dealing with the so-called refugee crisis, to the centre of the political debate: “first of all, countries with populist governments, such as Hungary and Poland, and increasingly Italy, we take in this respect in the focus.”
All so Michalski, to deny the Italian Minister of the interior, Salvini asylum seekers the right to a proper asylum procedure. In Hungary, Viktor attempts to score Orban, by denigration of minorities in his electorate and Poland had been trying, the “independence of the judiciary” to overturn it.
Hope remains
And Germany? Michalski is a divided one. “On the one hand,” there is a lot to criticize, so for example weapons to Saudi Arabia would be supplied”. There is an insane lack of transparency prevails also with regard to arms supplies. The reason is that Such sales are subject to confidentiality. In a democracy the people should have a say”.
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“On the other hand,” Michalski continued, “we see that in the Ministry of foreign Affairs and in the Chancellery of the responsibility that Germany plays more and more, to be taken seriously. That is, we see that the obligation to address the human rights and to criticize violations of human rights is taken more seriously”. This is one aspect that make hope, the human rights activist. In a further aspect, the human rights activists describe as a global phenomenon: There is worldwide an increasing Engagement of civil society, but also of certain parts of governments that no longer wanted to have some injustices. This hopeful conclusion is that due to the Heading of a Chapter: “the World’s Autocrats Face Rising Resistance” to German: “The autocrats of this world with ever greater resistance faced”.