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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2580527" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/human-rights-watch-trump.html?smid=tw-nytnational&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/human-rights-watch-trump.html?smid=tw-nytnational&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0</a>WASHINGTON — <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/h/human_rights_watch/index.html?inline=nyt-org" target="_blank">Human Rights Watch</a> on Thursday released its <a href="https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/world_report_download/wr2017-web.pdf" target="_blank">annual report</a> on threats to human rights around the world, and for the first time in the 27 years it has done these surveys, the United States is one of the biggest. The reason: the rise of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/donald-trump?inline=nyt-per" target="_blank">Donald J. Trump</a>.Eight days before Mr. Trump is to be sworn in as president, the human-rights advocacy group declared that his path to power, in a campaign marked by “misogynistic, xenophobic and racist rhetoric,” could “cause tremendous harm to vulnerable communities, contravene the United States’ core human rights obligations, or both.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2580527, member: 12952"] [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/human-rights-watch-trump.html?smid=tw-nytnational&smtyp=cur&_r=0[/URL] WASHINGTON — [URL='http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/h/human_rights_watch/index.html?inline=nyt-org']Human Rights Watch[/URL] on Thursday released its [URL='https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/world_report_download/wr2017-web.pdf']annual report[/URL] on threats to human rights around the world, and for the first time in the 27 years it has done these surveys, the United States is one of the biggest. The reason: the rise of [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/donald-trump?inline=nyt-per']Donald J. Trump[/URL]. Eight days before Mr. Trump is to be sworn in as president, the human-rights advocacy group declared that his path to power, in a campaign marked by “misogynistic, xenophobic and racist rhetoric,” could “cause tremendous harm to vulnerable communities, contravene the United States’ core human rights obligations, or both.” [/QUOTE]

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