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• Human rights isn't a zero-sum game

  Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 5:26 PM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  Eric , nothing that the pope said Friday favored one set of rights over another. Indeed, as my post stated, his speech to the U.N. General Assembly included "a tacit reprimand to those who would privilege civil and political rights over economic, social, Read More...
  Filed under: human rights, China, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Pope Benedict XVI, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights

• China, Human Rights Champion?

  Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:21 PM by Eric Posner
  
  
  
  If Diane and the pope are right that we shouldn't privilege civil and political rights over social, economic, and cultural rights, and maybe they are right, then we should give credit where credit is due, and crown China the human rights champion of the Read More...
  Filed under: human rights, China

• Shame Games

  Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 11:18 AM by Diane Marie Amann
  
  
  
  For three decades now the U.S. Department of State each year has issued a report on the human rights practices of other countries throughout the world. It does so to comply with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 , §§ 116(d), 502B(b); that is, at the Read More...
  Filed under: George W. Bush, human rights, State Department, Human Rights Watch, Olympic Games, China, United States

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