Friday, August 15, 2014

America and Human Rights

"The United States never invited her, despite her asking to visit several times in hopes of taking up “the many issues that trouble us,” she said, specifically drone strikes and targeted killings.

“That does not show the United States in a good light,” Ms. Pillay said. To preserve its authority in the world, she said, America cannot exempt itself, or its allies, from the standards it invokes to chastise other countries."