Human Rights Watch says Joe Biden must make stronger case for democracy

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HRW head Kenneth Roth says during key summits, Biden ‘seemed to lose his voice when it came to public denunciation of serious human rights violations’

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the White House on January 7, 2022. Picture: REUTERS/KEVIN LAMARQUE

In contrast to what Human Rights Watch’s executive director, Kenneth Roth, described as former US President Donald Trump's “embrace of friendly autocrats”, Biden took office in January 2021 with a pledge to put human rights at the centre of his foreign policy. “Other Western leaders displayed similar weakness in their defence of democracy,” Roth wrote, naming French President Emmanuel Macron and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

“The US state department has issued occasional protests about repression in certain countries, and in extreme cases the Biden administration introduced targeted sanctions on some officials responsible, but the influential voice of the president was often missing,” he wrote.

 

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