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Some of the policies of President Donald Trump are described as transparently hateful in the annual global human rights report from Amnesty International. Among many other findings in the report released February 2018, the organization accused the sitting American president of injustice and violating human rights. On 22 February, the left-wing Washington Press web site reported that Amnesty had officially declared Trump a human rights violator. We received several enquiries from readers about this. Amnesty did not declare Trump a human rights violator, in any formal sense—meaning there is no trial, criminal finding or repercussion when an advocacy group makes such declarations. However, the leadership of the organization—in their public statements and in the annual report—did use strong language to accuse Trump of violating and endangering human rights in the United States and around the world. Amnesty reserved its strongest criticism for the president's attempt to implement a temporary ban on immigration from certain majority-Muslim countries, calling it a transparently hateful move. In a press release accompanying the report, Amnesty's Secretary General Sail Shetty said: As the Washington Press correctly noted, Shetty also placed Trump in the same category as the authoritarian leaders of countries such as Russia, China, Egypt, the Philippines, and Venezuela: In the report itself, The State of the World's Human Rights 2017/18, Amnesty accused the United States president of implementing an anti-rights rhetoric of discrimination and xenophobia (page 28), and risking the lives and health of millions of women and girls around the world by refusing to fund hospitals and healthcare initiatives which provide information about abortion (page 34).
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