December 10 will mark 75 years since the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the process spearheaded by Eleanor Roosevelt that established the foundation of the modern international human rights framework.
To commemorate this milestone, the Quincy Institute will host a virtual panel taking stock of how U.S. foreign policy intersects human rights. It will examine divergent perspectives on the role of U.S. military power deployed in the name of human rights, American support or engagement with rights-abusing regimes, the use of coercive economic sanctions in response to rights violations, and other tools of statecraft in the service of creating a world in which all people enjoy fundamental human rights.
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