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Watching Rights
Neier, Aryeh | July 5, 1993 issue

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The main question about the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights is how much damage it will do to the human rights cause. For a good many years now, there has been a rough consensus worldwide that governments ought to respect certain civil and political rights that prohibit cruel and arbitrary punishments, protect freedom of expression and entitle each person to matter equally regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or gender. These rights are widely disregarded in practice. Yet because governments feel obligated to pretend to respect them, there is room for advocates of human rights to promote compliance with international agreements on rights by documenting discrepancies between pretense and practice.

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HUMAN rights; CONGRESSES & conventions; UNITED Nations; POLITICAL rights; CIVIL rights; CONTRACTS; INTERNATIONAL obligations
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