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Article: Diplomacy, faith and freedom; Religion and human rights.(The United States changes tack on human-rights promotion)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 4, 2009
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A blasphemy trial in Pakistan: just whose rights are at stake?
America rejoins the argument over which human rights are sacred
BACK in February there were groans of dismay among civil-liberties activists when Hillary Clinton, in one of her early pronouncements as secretary of state, suggested that America had more important things to discuss with China than human rights. "Our pressing on those [human-rights] issues can't interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate-change crisis and the security crisis," she said.
But on March 31st the Obama administration did something very concrete to correct any impression that diplomatic ...