The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948 in Paris.
The U.S. State Department has something new: a Commission on Unalienable Rights to provide “fresh thinking about human rights discourse where such discourse has departed from our nation’s founding principles of natural law and natural rights.”
The Secretary in a recent WSJ op-ed complained that human rights advocates have created “new categories of rights” that “blur the distinction between unalienable rights and ad hoc rights granted by governments” and this new commission will “ground our discussion of human rights in America’s founding principles.”
Translation:
We need to sell some bombs (what’s a few murders among friends?)
Poor people complaining about bad air and dirty rivers are threatening big energy.
A little income disparity rewards the smart and well connected – what’s so bad?
The Bible explains everything!
Do we really want this crew
redefining Human Rights?