Mimicking Human Rights

The proposed Commission on Unalienable Rights has released its draft charter.   As described in an earlier post,  the State Department is forming a new commission to review human rights principles to make certain that those principals are not in conflict with US-defined “natural law “.  The intention of the founders will be given priority attention in defining human rights.  The charter reinforces that the mission is to “recover that which is enduring for the maintenance and of free and open societies. 

In a frightening disclosure, the draft charter states that commission members will be called “Rapporteurs.”  Clever.  Scary but clever.  Part of the unstated plan is to replace the credibility of UN Rappateurs with the voice of commission members.  For many who will be introduced to the word, their only association with “rapporteur” will be the voice of the new commission.  A goal of the commission can only be not to simply redefine human rights but to eliminate the credibility of those charged with monitoring human rights as we have known them since the close of World War II.