- More on John Fonte’s new book Sovereignty or Submission [FrontPage interview, W. James Antle III/Washington Times, Clifford May via Israpundit, earlier here and here] U.N. Human Rights Council finds much to criticize about U.S. rights record, including inadequate attention to rights of clean water and sanitation; State Department response to “universal periodic review”;
- “The President Can’t Increase Congress’s Power Simply by Signing a Treaty” [Ilya Shapiro, Cato, on Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Bond]
- Another “international norms vs. American sentencing practices” showdown headed to SCOTUS? [Hans Bader]
- France, Turkey restrict talk of Armenian genocide in opposite ways, and both are wrong [Walter Russell Mead]
- Transnational prosecutions on an inexorable upward arc? Depends on how you count them [Jeremy Rabkin, TAI]
- International law pressed into use to remake family law and gender customs [Stephen Baskerville]
- “Time to Fix the European Court of Human Rights?” [Julian Ku, Opinio Juris]
- “We are fighting the caste system with capitalism”: open market in India helps Dalits [NY Times]
Filed under: Europe, family law, France, India, international human rights, international law, Supreme Court, Turkey
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I enjoyed the UN Human Rights Council’s report on the US human rights record. Of course, we’re not perfect, and most of us would recognize need for improvements. But the Council members include Cuba, Russia, Saudi Arabia and China. I read the reports on Cuba. While noting that the Cuban government refused any cooperation with the UN representatives and that there have been recent waves of arbitrary detention and imprisonment in Cuba, the UN report blamed the much of the rotten Cuban human rights situation on the US embargo! If only those nasty Americans would lighten up a bit, why, Cuba would become a beacon of human rights and democracy for the rest of the world. I’m sure the 50+ years of communist dictatorship has had nothing to do with it. Who knew?
Amazing how the UN can focus on clean water and sanitation in the USA while the just about the whole of Africa can go unnoticed. Must also be the fault of those nasty Americans.