By Letícia Medeiros and Arianna Davidson
Just 12 days after Trump assumed the role of president of the United States of America the Human Rights Law Review launched an online tool called “Trump Human Rights Tracker”. Now, more than 100 days into his presidency, we talked to our very own Human Rights Club, to find out if they’re as attentive to Trump’s presidency as the HRLR.
The tracker has registered 28 instances in which the President’s actions have threatened Human Rights in the US and over the world. Some recent examples are when, in May 10, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered prosecutors to pursue the maximum sentence for crimes. The online tool says this “Undermines right to equal protection before the law and the right to liberty and security of the person by expanding mass incarceration.”
The Human Rights Club is one of many after school clubs students can join in Mashpee. According to its adviser, Mrs. Hill, Spanish teacher here in Mashpee, its mission is to “bring about awareness of human rights issues around the world.” They meet every Thursday in room B208 and Mrs. Hill says Trump has come up in their meetings, for example, when he signed an Executive Order in January 27 that banned the entry to the US for citizens of Yemen, Iran, Syria (including refugees), Sudan, Somalia and Libya. She says they felt like that violated Human Rights because “everyone should have a safe place to be.”
Just 12 days after Trump assumed the role of president of the United States of America the Human Rights Law Review launched an online tool called “Trump Human Rights Tracker”. Now, more than 100 days into his presidency, we talked to our very own Human Rights Club, to find out if they’re as attentive to Trump’s presidency as the HRLR.
The tracker has registered 28 instances in which the President’s actions have threatened Human Rights in the US and over the world. Some recent examples are when, in May 10, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered prosecutors to pursue the maximum sentence for crimes. The online tool says this “Undermines right to equal protection before the law and the right to liberty and security of the person by expanding mass incarceration.”
The Human Rights Club is one of many after school clubs students can join in Mashpee. According to its adviser, Mrs. Hill, Spanish teacher here in Mashpee, its mission is to “bring about awareness of human rights issues around the world.” They meet every Thursday in room B208 and Mrs. Hill says Trump has come up in their meetings, for example, when he signed an Executive Order in January 27 that banned the entry to the US for citizens of Yemen, Iran, Syria (including refugees), Sudan, Somalia and Libya. She says they felt like that violated Human Rights because “everyone should have a safe place to be.”
President of the club, junior Remi Shea, says, “We’ve had a couple of debates on it.” She remembers, for example, going to a Human Rights Convention with the club, and having a big discussion about Trump. However, while she says all of them disagree with some of the things the President does/says, she emphasizes that they “try to keep political views aside.”
She describes the essence of the club by stating, “Our club, I would say is less focused on political views and more in what matters to people.”