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Article: Little humility, please: human rights and social policy in the United States.
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- Harvard International Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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JOSEPH WRONKA is Associate Professor of Social Work at Springfield College and Research Associate at the Heller School of Brandeis University's Center for Social Change.
The 1998 US Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices do not review the status of human rights in the United States, officially because Congress does not "appropriate funds to monitor its own country." Certainly these annual reports, written in part to shape policy, are helpful, if only because they alert the world to human rights atrocities committed in foreign countries. But what about human rights abuses in the United States? The United States is a powerful moral leader ...