The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, due to declining civil liberties.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250310234948/https://time.com/7266334/us-human-rights-watchlist-civil-liberties/
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Maybe the real shit hole country is the rights we violated along the way.
Aka the imperial boomerang
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CIVICUS outlines the state of civil rights through five categories—open, narrowed, obstructed, repressed, and closed. “Open” is the highest ranking, meaning all people are able to practice liberties such as free speech, and the lowest is “closed.”
The U.S. has been classified as “narrowed.”
So, we used to have a 5 star rating, but have been demoted to 4 stars
Real question is why it took so long
According to the info above the headline the article was updated about a month ago. So it just took long for the link to arrive on lemmy I guess
The United States lost their full democracy status thanks to Trump.
