State Department must slam the door on human rights fraud

Published April 28, 2024 6:00am ET



President Joe Biden sees himself as a human rights president, but his legacy is the opposite. Whether through negligence or a desire to prioritize friends over fact, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan increasingly turn a blind eye if not endorse human rights fraud.

Many human rights and conflict resolution organizations start for the right reasons, but their reputations hemorrhage when they prioritize politics over principle. The American Friends Service Committee, for example, won the Nobel Prize in 1947 for work to help refugees irrespective of nationality during World War II. Over subsequent years, though, the group cast neutrality aside.

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