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Why The New State Department Panel on Human Rights is Troubling
Tom Malinowski, U.S. Representative (D NJ-7) who served as assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the Obama administration, questions the aims of the newly announced Commission on Unalienable Rights to advise Secretary of State Pompeo on the role human rights should play in U.S. foreign policy.