CAROL GIACOMO. A New Trump Battleground: Defining Human Rights (The New York Times)
June 19, 2019
After the horrors of World War II, the United States led in adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, recognizing the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all people to life and liberty. For three-quarters of a century it has stood for the protection of human rights by the rule of law.
Now, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is establishing a Commission on Unalienable Rights to provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse where such discourse has departed from our nations founding principles of natural law and natural rights, according to a notice in the Federal Register…
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