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Trump’s Executive Orders Threaten Broad Range of Human Rights
Vulnerable Populations Most at Risk of Grave Abuses

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/01/22/trumps-executive-orders-threaten-broad-range-human-rights

United States President Donald Trump, on his first day in office on January 20, 2025, issued numerous executive orders that threaten to undermine respect for international human rights both in the US and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today.

“The sweeping scope and impact of these executive orders is deeply alarming,” said Tirana Hassan, executive director at Human Rights Watch. “They threaten the rights of people across the United States and around the world, particularly the rights of already marginalized and vulnerable populations who are disproportionately people of color.”

Refugees vetted and enroute to the US have now been blocked from entry. Immigration-related executive orders attempt to eviscerate the right to seek asylum and other forms of humanitarian protection, increase immigration detention, and fast-track deportation without due process.

An effort to restrict birthright citizenship – which is already facing legal challenges – is an ominous signal that children will again be targeted in the name of deterrence. Other orders invoke war rhetoric without basis in an apparent bid to justify the US military’s involvement in civilian immigration enforcement, contemplate discriminatory travel bans, chill the work of civil society groups, and other abusive actions.

An executive order once again prohibits transgender people from serving in the US military, and another denies federal government recognition of transgender identities, mandating recognition of only male and female as fixed biological sexes. The administration is also rescinding Biden-era rules aimed at phasing out the federal government’s use of privatized criminal detention facilities.

US foreign development assistance has been paused, putting many human rights defenders around the world and the people they help protect at greater risk, as they depend on that support for their work. There will also be far-reaching consequences for international humanitarian and development assistance, disrupting vital life-saving assistance to millions of people.

Executive orders that create “enhanced vetting” for visa applicants from “regions or nations identified as security risks” could lead to racial profiling; the revocation of sanctions on violent settlers and settler organizations in the occupied West Bank could further entrench impunity or harm to Palestinians; signals of support for imposing sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court that would come at the expense of victims of grave crimes; and the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords could increase climate-related devastation on people and communities.

Several of President Trump’s cabinet nominees testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said they were committed to human rights. The Trump administration should reconsider the impact of these policies on individuals and communities, and on US credibility around the world, Human Rights Watch said.

“We will not stand by as governments trample on human rights,” Hassan said. “We will hold the Trump administration and others accountable for policies that erode freedoms and undermine equality. And we will stand in solidarity with human rights defenders everywhere, which means ordinary people, in the United States and beyond who are fighting tirelessly for dignity, freedom, and justice.”

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@Suzianne said
Trump’s Executive Orders Threaten Broad Range of Human Rights
Vulnerable Populations Most at Risk of Grave Abuses

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/01/22/trumps-executive-orders-threaten-broad-range-human-rights

United States President Donald Trump, on his first day in office on January 20, 2025, issued numerous executive orders that threaten to undermine respect f ...[text shortened]... ple, in the United States and beyond who are fighting tirelessly for dignity, freedom, and justice.”
getting special treatment because of your skin color is not "human rights"...it is RACISM

"These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appealing to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation. "

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@Mott-The-Hoople said
getting special treatment because of your skin color is not "human rights"...it is RACISM

"These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appealing to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation. "
That article is a joke, and the person that posted it is a moron. I Googled the person Tirana Hassan and one cannot tell if it is a man, woman or a cat.

Anyway the US is at fault here. People all over the world have used the US as the place to run when there are problems in their home country. Often the problems are caused by their own stupidity.

Trump needs to fix that and the medicine is not going to be nice.

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@Mott-The-Hoople said
getting special treatment because of your skin color is not "human rights"...it is RACISM
These groups would be ecstatic if all they got was equality. "Special treatment" need not apply. These are vulnerable populations who have been treated as "less than". In some cases decades, in some cases centuries.

That you see seeking equal treatment as seeking "special treatment" speaks volumes. Treating people as humans is not a zero-sum game. You are not being treated any less because others are finally treated as equals.

Whatever happened to "equal treatment under the law"? We have seen those who deem themselves as "special" receiving preferential treatment. White people mostly, people like Donald Trump specifically. These people are quick to judge vulnerable minorities, racial and now LGBTQ, as "less than", thinking this somehow elevates themselves.

Nothing is further from the truth.

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@Rajk999 said
That article is a joke, and the person that posted it is a moron. I Googled the person Tirana Hassan and one cannot tell if it is a man, woman or a cat.
She's a woman, you worthless piece of crap.

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@Soothfast said
She's a woman, you worthless piece of crap.
Nobody cares for your opinion, you donkey. The article is nonsense. It is written by someone who appears to feel entitled that the world owes them something. These are the kind of people the world needs less off. These are the dregs of humanity that drag decent hardworking people down into the gutter with them. They have low moral standards, they are lazy, they are weak and they continually beg for handouts.

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@Rajk999 said
Nobody cares for your opinion, you donkey. The article is nonsense. It is written by someone who appears to feel entitled that the world owes them something. These are the kind of people the world needs less off. These are the dregs of humanity that drag decent hardworking people down into the gutter with them. They have low moral standards, they are lazy, they are weak and they continually beg for handouts.
You have an amazing aptitude of missing the point. These are human beings, who deserve equal rights (not "special" rights) just by virtue of being human. These people are part of vulnerable communities who are disproportionally people of color. And here you are, a member of a majority too ready to spit on them and degrade them because you consider them "less than" you. How dare you.

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@Suzianne said
You have an amazing aptitude of missing the point. These are human beings, who deserve equal rights (not "special" rights) just by virtue of being human. These people are part of vulnerable communities who are disproportionally people of color. And here you are, a member of a majority too ready to spit on them and degrade them because you consider them "less than" you. How dare you.
Both you and Tirana Hassan are idiot peas in the same pod. Note:
- People of colour, dont get more rights than anyone else
- Trump cannot threaten people around the world. If he can then both you and your government are weaklings
- Refugees have no right to enter the US. They have the privilege to enter and apply for refugee status.
- Illegal immigrants can be deported regardless of their circumstances
- Transgender people have no right in war, neither should they be allowed in womens sports
- Security risks are a real concern when it comes to Muslims. They should be kept out.
- Tirana Hassan can go to hell, instead of standing by and trying to hold anyone accountable.

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@Rajk999 said
Both you and Tirana Hassan are idiot peas in the same pod. Note:
- People of colour, dont get more rights than anyone else
- Trump cannot threaten people around the world. If he can then both you and your government are weaklings
- Refugees have no right to enter the US. They have the privilege to enter and apply for refugee status.
- Illegal immigrants can be deporte ...[text shortened]... out.
- Tirana Hassan can go to hell, instead of standing by and trying to hold anyone accountable.
Thumb up. One dictum above is that there is a difference in a right and a privilege. Liberals get this screwed up all the time. It is a tenet which is the foundation of all legal reasoning.

Libs!

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@Suzianne said
Trump’s Executive Orders Threaten Broad Range of Human Rights
Vulnerable Populations Most at Risk of Grave Abuses

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/01/22/trumps-executive-orders-threaten-broad-range-human-rights

United States President Donald Trump, on his first day in office on January 20, 2025, issued numerous executive orders that threaten to undermine respect f ...[text shortened]... ple, in the United States and beyond who are fighting tirelessly for dignity, freedom, and justice.”
What did you say about propaganda?
Trump hasn't squashed anybody's rights.

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@Rajk999 said
Both you and Tirana Hassan are idiot peas in the same pod. Note:
- People of colour, dont get more rights than anyone else
- Trump cannot threaten people around the world. If he can then both you and your government are weaklings
- Refugees have no right to enter the US. They have the privilege to enter and apply for refugee status.
- Illegal immigrants can be deporte ...[text shortened]... out.
- Tirana Hassan can go to hell, instead of standing by and trying to hold anyone accountable.
Both you and Tirana Hassan are idiot peas in the same pod.

Thank you for comparing me to the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. She is an inspiring role-model.

People of colour, dont get more rights than anyone else

No one says they do. Ms. Hassan said this about Trump's EO's: “They threaten the rights of people across the United States and around the world, particularly the rights of already marginalized and vulnerable populations who are disproportionately people of color.” Nothing about getting "more rights than anyone else". She's talking about basic Human Rights. And she's absolutely correct. They are only "less than", because people like you make them "less than". How about giving them equal rights? Is that a bridge too far for you, who apparently already enjoys more rights than they do?

"Trump cannot threaten people around the world. If he can then both you and your government are weaklings"

By tying his international policies to these same groups, he endangers people who belong to these groups throughout the world. His policies endanger more people than just Americans.

"Illegal immigrants can be deported regardless of their circumstances"

Yes, but only a soulless leader, who either doesn't know or care how he is affecting families, unleashes deportation on such a massive scale. Who knows if we are on the verge of creating another Holocaust? Ejecting them without due process is another way of minimizing their basic human rights.

"Transgender people have no right in war, neither should they be allowed in womens sports"

This is your opinion, also held by people who just don't give a damn about their human rights.

"Security risks are a real concern when it comes to Muslims. They should be kept out."

A typical racist screed. Have you taken the time to get to know ANY Muslims? Whether you want to believe it or not, they are ALSO your brothers.

"Tirana Hassan can go to hell, instead of standing by and trying to hold anyone accountable."

She is the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. It is her job to call out human rights abuses. And no doubt you will beat her to hell.

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@Cliff-Mashburn said
What did you say about propaganda?
Trump hasn't squashed anybody's rights.
Tell that to those being deported and the LGBTQ community.

Ms. Hassan and I aren't talking about legal rights. We're talking about basic human rights. Rights people deserve just because they are human. Something you seem to forget.

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@AverageJoe1 said
Thumb up. One dictum above is that there is a difference in a right and a privilege. Liberals get this screwed up all the time. It is a tenet which is the foundation of all legal reasoning.

Libs!
Human rights are NOT a privilege. If they are, WHO are they reserved for? The rich? The whites? The straight? How can you dictate who is considered human?

Hint: You can't.

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@Suzianne said
Both you and Tirana Hassan are idiot peas in the same pod.

Thank you for comparing me to the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. She is an inspiring role-model.

People of colour, dont get more rights than anyone else

No one says they do. Ms. Hassan said this about Trump's EO's: “They threaten the rights of people across the United States and a ...[text shortened]... ghts Watch. It is her job to call out human rights abuses. And no doubt you will beat her to hell.
Delusional nonsense. Thank God there are many millions of Americans not like you.

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@Suzianne said
Human rights are NOT a privilege. If they are, WHO are they reserved for? The rich? The whites? The straight? How can you dictate who is considered human?

Hint: You can't.
but allowing a baby to die is ok?

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