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Chronicle: "UN Seems Impotent on Human Rights"
The following column by Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Joel Brinkley, syndicated in
newspapers
across America, appears on page E-5 of today's San Francisco
Chronicle.
U.N. seems impotent on human
rights
Joel Brinkley
Sunday, October 2,
2011
United Nations -- Listening to dissidents
from around the world speaking at a conference here, you
come away thinking there has to be a school somewhere for
evil, vicious despots. From Africa to Asia, Europe to Latin
America, the gambits these men use to quash dissent sound
remarkably similar, state to state.
[....]
© 2011 Joel Brinkley Joel Brinkley, a professor of journalism at Stanford University, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former foreign correspondent for the New York Times. To comment, go to http://sfgate.com/chronicle/submissions/#1
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