This gem was tucked away deep within the bowels of the Inquirer today. To summarize, the U.N. Human Rights Council has passed a resolution calling for countries around the world to prohibit criticism of religion, particularly Islam. This is a direct, frontal assault on human rights, modernity and western civilization. When will our so-called great thinkers and [...]
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, wrote a fluff piece today about the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It could be summed up as: there are still a lot of human rights violations out there and, yea for me, I care.
She’s a committed [...]
I was reminded recently of the U.N.’s efforts to violate our gun rights. From a U.N. report on small arms:
The principle of self-defense has an important place in international human rights law, but does not provide an independent, supervening right to small arms possession, nor does it ameliorate the duty of States to use due [...]