Conversation

What Went Wrong With Human Rights

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-went-wrong-with-human-rights-1534544962

Mr. Rhodes describes [the U.N. Human Rights Council] as “controlled” by “Islamic theocracies” and “heavily under the influence of China.” Those unfree countries “are forming a human-rights vision of their own,” he says. “It’s human rights without freedom. It’s human rights based on economic and social rights, where freedoms are restricted in the interest of ‘peace’ and ‘stability’ and power—their power.”