President Trump Unconventional address Last week, the United Nations General Assembly was low on specialties, but recent functions of their administration have replaced the US human rights policy in ways that can depth the human rights system of the global organization. The system requires disruption, but where is the alternative path of America in support of the principle of human rights?
The new report of the State Department on human rights around the world shows a departure from the criteria that have informed the first document. The report now does not say anything about corruption and freedom of assembly in the government. As noted by Human Rights Watch, it is as follows Gives a pass to the ruling states The power of which depends on corruption and repression. “The administration has incorrectly understood the human rights records of derogatory governments, with which it is currently demanding friendly relations.”
The report is aware of the violations of women and gay rights, which sees the Trump administration as “traditional values”, prepares its own definition of human rights on it, thus challenging the ideal of transactive, universal human rights.
It is considered “politicization” to shape human rights data to align with national interests. But in fact, no government can evaluate the records of human rights of other states, keeping economic and political needs aside; Nonpartison Civil Society analysis is more capable of objective human rights assessment than governments.
Indeed, autocratic states have always accused the US of politicizing human rights. In response to the report of the State Department, China and other autocratic states have made their own, fake. Reports It is riding human rights status in the US with racist, violent and economic inequalities.
The release of the report always leads to a major event for human rights groups worldwide, hoping that it will support their claims and depict future pressure on their rule. The report has increased expectations thus when unmate, can cause resentment. Despite its problems, it has confirmed America’s support for basic political freedom, and even a desire to catch friendly states.
The new report will not result in that result.
It is a step towards the promotional documents of laughter manufactured by dictatorship, leaving the pretense of fairness, in embracing the politics of very human rights that affect the United Nations. The report indirectly confirms that the “international community”, as John Loke, is actually no civil community, but a state of nature.
The Trump administration announced the refusal to participate in the universal periodic review of the United Nations Human Rights Council. As a spokesman ExplainedThe review implies the support of the “(Human Rights) Council’s mandate and activities and most ignore its frequent failure in condemning human rights violations,” although it is well what the Foreign Department has done in its new human rights report.
The universal periodic review, as its title indicates, ensures that each UN member is subject to analysis of compliance with his human rights. While there is a good idea in theory, reviews, like the international human rights system, are generally abused by the totalitarian states, which use it to legalize themselves. China has sung the system brutally, converting its review into PR practice. Where clients read scripted messages praising the government. Even North Korea has been there Comprehensive praise During its periodic review.
And while America is one of the few states that are truthfully facing human rights insults, politics has also attacked its performance: under the Obama administration, for example, the Foreign Department bends on the backward and suggested that the government maintains economic and social human rights, major legal philosopher Roger Pilon Write The government’s self-assessment “reads like a politically right campaign brochure” which “approves the struggle for real and perceived rights.”
Thus there are reasons why refusal to participate in UPPR can be defended on theory, and other states may well follow the US leadership. Trump and State Secretary Marco Rubio has put another nail in the coffin of liberal internationalism, which has been developed in a range of hypocritical, bureaucracy rituals, generally in relation to human rights. But due to no indication of a positive program to defend Liberty, he has also abandoned freedom -looking communities, with no north star in the world, where there is autocracy on March.
Aaron is the author of Rhodes “Human rights without confusion: escape from the moral trap of universality.” Earlier, he served as the Executive Director of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and the President of the Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe.
