{"id":9000,"date":"2018-02-01T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T12:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2018-02-01T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T12:13:51","slug":"world-report-2018-our-annual-review-of-human-rights-around-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2018\/02\/world-report-2018-our-annual-review-of-human-rights-around-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD REPORT 2018: Our annual review of human rights around the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-13.10.41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9001\" src=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-13.10.41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-13.10.41.png 724w, https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-01-at-13.10.41-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/world-report\/2018\">Human Rights Watch<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; World Report 2018 summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, drawing on events from late 2016 through November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In his keynote essay, \u201cThe Pushback Against the Populist Challenge,\u201d Executive Director Kenneth Roth says that the surge of authoritarian populists appears less inevitable than it did a year ago. Then, there seemed no stopping a series of politicians around the globe who claimed to speak for \u201cthe people\u201d but built followings by demonizing unpopular minorities, attacking human rights principles, and fueling distrust of democratic institutions. Today, a popular reaction in a broad range of countries, bolstered by some political leaders with the courage to stand up for human rights, has left the fate of many of these populist agendas more uncertain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/sites\/default\/files\/supporting_resources\/201801world_essay_ken_etr.pdf\">Download the Easy to Read<\/a>\u00a0version of the World Report 2018 keynote address.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch\u00a0&#8211; World Report 2018 summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, drawing on events from late 2016 through November 2017. In his keynote essay, \u201cThe Pushback Against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":9001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,85,43,88,10],"tags":[387,837],"class_list":["post-9000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor-selection","category-human-rights","category-human-rights-online-library","category-slider","category-world","tag-human-rights-report","tag-key-human-right-issues","country-world","Documents-conventions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9003,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions\/9003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}