#Trump freedom of spress skin

Our fear is that Julia would get bullied about her glasses and condition.“People need to know you don’t need to be black to be racially abused.

#Trump freedom of spress skin

'And in taking these measures, at least from a human rights perspective, it seems to be reckless driving.' (Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay Editing by John Stonestreet and Andrew Heavens)Ī white mum and a black dad who had an albino baby says she has already suffered racial abuse - aged just 15 months.Marwa Houma, 33, said she had expected Julia-Marie to share skin tones with her and her black civil partner, Malcolm John, 60.But she was born instead with blonde hair, blue-eyes and pale skin.Tests revealed Julia-Marie was born with albinism, a condition affecting one in every 17,000 people.Marwa said her bubbly tot has faced vicious discrimination - particularly when she steps out with her loving father.She has been called names and people have even questioned whether John is her dad.Marwa said: “Every time I take Julia outside, people don’t look at me because I’m fair-skinned, but when they look at Malcolm with Julia, it’s like ‘what’s that man doing with that baby?'“People would stare at him as though he kidnapped the baby, and I felt for him, but he couldn’t express it.“As a parent, I need to be brave and fight for my daughter’s future. president to a bus driver, said: 'I almost feel that the President is driving the bus of humanity and we're careening down a mountain path. 'Does the president support this? These actions have consequences.' Zeid, comparing the leadership role of a U.S. 'Does the President support racial profiling, of Latinos in particular, does he support abuse of prisoners? Arpaio referred at one stage to the open-air prison that he set up as a concentration camp, he later recanted said it was a joke,' Zeid said. Zeid voiced deep concern at Trump's pardon of Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt in a racial profiling case that highlighted tensions over immigration policy. But at the time I expressed my feeling that this was grossly irresponsible, because it has consequences, it emboldens those who may think similarly to sharpen their assaults on these communities,' he said. 'The President prides himself as a taboo breaker, indeed his supporters see him as such. Trump has also made worrying remarks about women, Mexicans and Muslims, 'mocked a person with disabilities publicly' and issued a directive on a transgender ban in the military, he said. 'TABOO BREAKER' Nazi salutes, swastikas, anti-Semitic slurs and racist references to African-Americans had 'no place in the United States or beyond', Zeid said, in his first comments on the events in Charlottesville. Trump rounded on journalists last week, calling them 'truly dishonest people' and criticising their coverage of a white supremacist-organized rally in Virginia and the political fallout from his comments that violence there was caused by 'many sides'. Referring to the New York Times, Washington Post and CNN, he added: 'To call these news organisations 'fake' does tremendous damage and to refer to individual journalists in this way, I have to ask the question is this not an incitement for others to attack journalists?' Zeid voiced concern that a journalist from the Guardian had been 'assaulted in the United States most recently' but gave no details. And ultimately the sequence is a dangerous one,' he told a news conference in Geneva.

Constitution but very much something that the United States defended over the years is now itself under attack from the President,' the U.N. 'It's really quite amazing when you think that freedom of the press, not only sort of a cornerstone of the U.S. There was no immediate response from the White House on the wide-ranging rebuke of Trump's repeated references to the 'fake media' and some of his other statements and decisions. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said Trump had also made worrying remarks about women, Mexicans and Muslims and went on to question the president's approach to immigration and decision to pardon former Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio. President Donald Trump's criticism of journalists amounts to an attack on the freedom of the press and could provoke violence against reporters, the United Nations' human rights chief said on Wednesday.

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S.