{"id":499,"date":"2007-05-24T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T09:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=499"},"modified":"2007-05-24T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T09:48:15","slug":"the-politics-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"The politics of fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><block quote>&#8220;Through short sighted, fear-mongering and divisive policies, governments are undermining the rule of law and human rights, feeding racism and xenophobia, dividing communities, intensifying inequalities and sowing the seeds for more violence and conflict. The politics of fear is fuelling a downward spiral of human rights abuse in which no right is sacrosanct and no person safe.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, introdcuing the organisation&#8217;s Annual report which reviews the threats to human rights around the world.<br \/>\nYou can read the media release <a href=\"http:\/\/news.amnesty.org\/index\/ENGPOL100092007\">here<\/a> and the full report <a href=\"\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nAmnesty identifies bloggers as in the front-line of the battle for human rights in many repressive countries such as Belarus, China, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/technology.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/tech_and_web\/article1828944.ece\">this comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Through short sighted, fear-mongering and divisive policies, governments are undermining the rule of law and human rights, feeding racism and xenophobia, dividing communities, intensifying inequalities and sowing the seeds for more violence and conflict. The politics of fear is fuelling a downward spiral of human rights abuse in which no right is sacrosanct and no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}