Aaron Rhodes is president of the Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe. He is the author of The Debasement of Human Rights (Encounter Books).
Truths about human rights have, indeed, been discovered in the West, but are not the property of the West and do not apply only in the West. But Trump implied that these were simply local, particular, and culturally-specific “values.”
Aaron RhodesJuly 27, 2017
Buzz has begun about a possible U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council. It is no wonder; the Human Rights Council is largely a sham.
Aaron RhodesMarch 14, 2017
At Davos on January 17, President Xi Jinping spoke of China’s determination to play a responsible role to “secure peace and reduce poverty.” Xi was applauded. Yet China abuses the fundamental human rights of its people, undermines international human rights institutions, and indeed subverts the very concept of individual human rights.
Aaron RhodesJanuary 19, 2017
The over-emphasis on human rights multilateralism, despite its paltry results (not to mention the expanding range of human rights claims), has undermined faith in those standards and, indeed, faith in the idea of human rights itself.
Aaron RhodesOctober 3, 2016
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