Obama called ‘AWOL’ on human rights

Published July 18, 2013 4:00am ET



President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize isn’t giving him cover from charges that he and his foreign policy team have looked the other way on human rights abuses by countries including China, Russia and Vietnam.

Now as Obama readies to entertain the president of Vietnam, Truong Tan Sang, next Thursday, critics are urging him to demand that the Socialist nation end its horrible record of government-sanctioned labor and sex trafficking or face U.S. sanctions.

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