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Human Rights, Not as a Weapon, But for the Common Good

Rather than contributing to the common good, today’s human rights discourse has become part of the problem. Firstly, it is seriously discredited by its hypocritical, inconsistent and clearly political application, which have made it a very debased currency around the world.

But more than that, it has been recruited into a program that has little to do with protecting people and everything to do with securing global power above that of the sovereign state.

After World War

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