The U.N. and Human Rights: The Double Standard

Publication Date: May 1982

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Juliana Geran Pilon

Research Area: Human rights; International relations

Keywords: International organizations

Type: Report

Abstract:

Human rights violations cannot be addressed seriously unless the same standards are applied to all nations. The dignity of man should not depend on political and ideological considerations. Paying lip service to human rights, as the U.N. so often does, is the worst of insults, a very travesty of benevolence.