R.On Sunday, the United States was added to the CIVICUS MONITOR monitoring menu, a search tool that spreads freedoms and threats of civil freedoms worldwide.
Civicus said that this step comes amid the “assault of democratic standards and global cooperation” for President Donald Trump “, a global alliance and a network of civil society groups, including Amnesty International, which calls for increasing citizenship measures in areas where civil freedoms are limited – in a press release. The organization also cited the reduction of management to more than 90 % of its foreign aid contracts and its suppression of diversity Equity and integration (Dei) – which Trump called “illegal and immoral discrimination programs” – the executive procedure.
“It seems that the Trump administration seems worthy of dismantling the system of checks and balances that are the pillars of a democratic society,” Mandeep Tewana, the temporary African year in Civicus, said in a press statement. “Record executive orders, unjustified institutional reducing, and intimidation of intimidation by threatening by senior administration officials, creates an atmosphere of the cold of democratic opposition, a dear American example.”
Other countries in the monitoring list include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia.
CIVICUS defines the state of civil rights through five categories – opening, narrowed, obstructing, suppressing, and closing them. “Open” is the highest classification, which means that all people are able to exercise freedoms such as freedom of expression, and the lowest is “closed”. According to Civicus, cases that lead to a “decrease in open civil space” include “repressive legislation that limits freedom of expression and dialogue, obstacles to civil society activities, operations, repression of civil disobedience and peaceful demonstrations.
The United States has been classified as “narrowed”. The “narrow” evaluation is the CIVICUS evaluation that although most people are able to exercise their rights to expression, freedom of expression, and gathering, there are some attempts to violate these rights by the government. For example, CIVICUS was martyred with oppression of pro -Palestinian demonstrators during the Biden administration, after defenders moved to the streets and formed university camps to express their dissatisfaction with military assistance and United States financing that the United States sent to Israel. Students participated in the demonstrations to demand their schools stripped of any companies that benefit from Israel or have a relationship with Israel.
“We urge the United States to support the rule of law and respect the constitutional and international human rights standards,” Toyana said. “The Americans, through the political spectrum, feel dismay through the non -democratic measures of the current administration.”
The White House did not immediately respond to the request for time to comment.
The “narrow” category also reflects the CIVICUS evaluation “despite the presence of a free free printing press, as there may be restrictions due to the organization or political pressure on the owners of the media.
This comes at a time when the editorial decisions taken by major media organizations and the ruling bodies have pushed a lot of discussion.
In February, the Federal Communications Committee launched an investigation into NPR and PBS due to fears that they were “violating federal law by broadcasting commercials”, which is denied by both executives in the newsroom. The Chairman of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) also spoke against the general financing of the news sites.
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and the owner of the Washington Post newspaper, ordered the change of the pages of her opinion in February, and the team informed that they would write “in support and defense of Omarin: personal freedoms and free markets.”
“We will cover other topics as well, but the views that oppose these columns will be left to publish by others,” Bezos said in his note to the postal team.
In the same month, the White House announced his journalistic team to choose correspondents who participate in the press group – the movement of White House press secretary Caroline Levitte that he was about “restoring power to the American people, whose President Trump was elected to serve.” However, many of the press advocates criticized this act. “This step raises tears when the free press in the United States is independent. It indicates that the government will choose journalists who are covering the president. The White House Representatives Association said in a statement on February 25:” In a free country, the leaders should not be able to choose their press corps. ”
The White House is also in a lawsuit filed by the Associated Press. The news organization filed a lawsuit against three Trump administration officials – including Levitte – after it was prevented from reaching the presses of the press in the White House because it refused to change its written style and refer to the Gulf of Mexico in the name of “the Gulf of America”, after Trump re -named in an executive order that occurred in January.
