Human Nature and Human Rights.
From: The National Interest
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Date: 12/22/2000
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Author: Fox, Robin
IN THE CLOSING months of his presidency, Bill Clinton and some of his entourage have taken to using the buzzphrase "human and political rights" to replace the simpler "human rights." A call to the White House press office produced no explanation of the coinage, but assured me that "no policy change was implied." It's always nice to know that it is business as usual.
One would like to think that some sense of the paradoxes and complications of the term "human rights" had come home ...
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