Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a “trigger bill” Tuesday that would ban abortions in his state upon the reversal of Roe v. Wade. If Roe were to be either overturned or overruled by a constitutional amendment, doctors in Texas who…
On Tuesday, the UN Human Rights Council resolved to address systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in the context of law enforcement. It was, as is usual for the UN, a setup to bash the United States….
Human rights are under siege in many nations. Three of the world’s most important countries, China, Russia, and India, are moving backward on political freedom, though the last at least still holds free elections. All three also are increasingly violating…
One of the marks of modern liberalism is its tendency to promote invented rights while denying real ones. As the Founding Fathers argued, rights derive not from government but from God, and the test of the legitimacy of a government…
“The West’s Two Faces,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, February 26, 2021.
In 2011, Hillary Clinton announced that the promotion of “LGBT rights” abroad formed “a priority of our foreign policy.” She scolded religiously conservative countries for regarding that agenda as a “Western phenomenon.” She instructed diplomats at the State Department to…
Before the Declaration of Independence enumerates the basic human rights that are unalienable, it states that “All men are created equal.” As a British critic of that time put it, that does not seem to be the truth in the…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday that his Commission on Unalienable Rights has completed a report on their investigation of the history and purpose of human rights. Pompeo formed the Commission to reshape and refocus the United States’ policy…
After a three-month hiatus due to Covid-19, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) convened for an “urgent debate” on Wednesday about “systematic racism” and “police brutality.” The debate was proposed by Burkina Faso on behalf of the UN’s Africa group…
