According to the Trump administration’s own figures, over 700 children were reportedly separated from their parents between October 2017 and April 2018—before the Department of Homeland Security’s new policy officially took effect earlier this month.

“Make no mistake: This new policy is vicious, brutal and is nothing less than Trump administration-endorsed, U.S. government-sanctioned child abuse.”
—Maria Cardona, political commentator

“The federal government has not released figures from May, but those who work on immigration cases have observed a large increase in the number of children affected” by the new policy, as NBC News reported last week.

“It doesn’t matter how young the child, how terrible their situation, or how unnecessary their separation,” the ACLU noted. “They have one goal in mind: to warn immigrants not to come here, or else they might lose their children.”

As Common Dreams reported, ACLU documents published last week detailed the appalling treatment of detained migrant children during the Obama administration and clearly demonstrated that “pervasive abuse” of immigrants didn’t begin with President Donald Trump. 

But Trump appears deadset on doing everything he can to make an already cruel system even more inhumane, and advocacy groups are hoping Friday’s rallies will help call attention to these often overlooked policies and build a grassroots movement strong enough to bring them down for good.

“Make no mistake: This new policy is vicious, brutal and is nothing less than Trump administration-endorsed, U.S. government-sanctioned child abuse,” concluded political strategist and commentator Maria Cardona in an op-ed for The Hill on Tuesday.

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Kudlow went on to assert that Trump’s continued tariff threats against Canada on Saturday were a show of toughness ahead of the president’s meeting in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

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Responding to Kudlow’s remarks on Sunday—which came just as Trump touched down in Singapore after ducking out of the G7 summit early—Huffington Post reporter Matt Fuller wrote: “It’s amazing that Larry Kudlow thinks he’s helping the U.S.-Canada relationship, trade negotiations, and the Singapore talks by trashing an ally. I, for one, would definitely cut a deal with the United States after that.”

Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs express similar disbelief at Kudlow’s behavior in a tweet on Sunday.

“You can’t make this stuff up,” Sachs concluded. “The collapse of U.S. governance before our eyes.”

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Austria, which has recently garnered international attention for the surging popularity of its far-right politicians, is the worst-ranked democracy in terms of acting in the public interest, and overall falls second to only the “partly free” Kenya. In the United States, 49 percent said their voice doesn’t matter and 66 percent believe the government fails to serve the public.

Other key findings from all 50 surveyed countries include: more than half of citizens “don’t trust the news they read,” and nearly half “don’t feel free to share political opinions in public.” While citizens of democracies feel the most free to publicly discuss politics, a full 57 percent said they don’t believe the news media gives them “balanced and neutral information.”

“Democratic systems of governance are under severe threat, not only from foreign interference and the rise of autocratic regimes, but also from the huge crisis of confidence amongst the electorate,” concluded Nina Schick, director of data and polling at Rasmussen Global. “Democracies cannot afford to be complacent if they are to survive and prosper.”

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As Dalia Research CEO and cofounder Nico Jaspers put it, “Right now the biggest risk for democracies is that the public no longer sees them as democratic.”

The index was released to mark the inaugural Copenhagen Democracy Summit, which was organized by the three surveryers.

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In response, the U.N. launched a $400-million-dollar plan in 2016 entitled “New Approach to Cholera in Haiti” that aims to eradicate the epidemic and provide a victims assistance package. The victims assistance package included individual payments to affected households, and community projects, which would be decided upon through a process of victims consultation. However, 18 months on, the U.N. has failed to deliver on its promises, the groups say.

“A rights-based, victim-centered response requires meaningful participation by victims at every step of the process. Victims must be consulted about all decisions regarding the response, including the balance between community projects and individual payments to victims. Decisions must be implemented in conformity with the victims’ priorities and perspectives. The U.N.’s limited interaction with victims to date falls a long way short of this standard,” the letter reads.

“The U.N. has an opportunity with the New Approach to help rebuild the lives of thousands of cholera victims,” it concludes, “and set a powerful example that the U.N. will embody the principles of human rights and rule of law that it promotes to others.”

As Steven Lewis, former deputy executive director of UNICEF, previously argued, “Guterres is retreating on an absolute commitment that is his job to fulfill. Perhaps it is unintentional, but he’s adding insult to grave injury for the people of Haiti, who continue to die from cholera at a rate of one person per day.”

“Secretary-General Guterres must chart a new direction if the U.N.’s promises of a New Approach that respects victims are to be more than just empty words,” said Concannon.

 In the following IJDH video, victims explain the devastating impact the cholera outbreak had on their lives and urge the U.N. to take action:

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George was among the Greenpeace members—from all over Canada as well as the U.S., Mexico, and the U.K.—who rappelled from the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge for 35 hours to form a blockade preventing a Trans Mountain oil tanker from leaving Vancouver with tar sands oil.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to purchase the existing Trans Mountain pipeline and Kinder Morgan’s expansion project, which carries crude and refined oil from Alberta to Canada’s western coast, costing taxpayers $4.5 billion.

More than 200 people have been arrested in British Columbia for protesting the plan, which opponents say will put coastal communities at grave risk of oil spills and will threaten the area’s dwindling orca population with extinction. The plan also violates the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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“No one should need to spend almost two days suspended from a bridge trying to protect something as essential as water but that’s exactly what Prime Minister Trudeau has driven us to do,” said Mike Hudema, a Greenpeace Canada spokesperson. “The prime minister still has a chance to make the right decision and stop this pipeline. Whether it’s by his pen, in the courts, or the global resistance the pipeline won’t be built—this movement of people isn’t going anywhere.”

As outcry over the financing of fossil fuel projects has grown, Europe’s two largest banks, BNP Paribas and HSBC, have announced they would not support the Trans Mountain pipeline.

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“The absence of open internet rules jeopardizes the ability to reduce load in times of extreme energy grid stress,” said the attorneys general. “Consequently, the order threatens the reliability of the electric grid.”

The FCC’s decision—made along party lines with chairman and former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai leading the attack on net neutrality—went against the wishes of 83 percent of Americans, according to polls taken at the time. Since the decision, six state governors have filed executive orders while three states have passed legislation to protect net neutrality at the state level.

In their brief, the states also argued that the FCC’s order “unlawfully purports to preempt state and local regulation of broadband service.”

“The rollback of net neutrality will have a devastating impact on millions of New Yorkers and Americans across the country, putting them at risk of abusive practices while undermining state and local regulation of the broadband industry,” said Underwood. “We’ll continue to fight to protect consumers’ right to a free and open internet.”

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