Washington Ill-Prepared to Set Human Rights Agenda

... or 30 years ago, the quest for freedom was the driving force behind the majority of street protests, political upheavals and revolutions. Today people revolt mostly against what they believe to be unfair and unjust. The widely shared sentiment of unfairness and injustice rather than human rights or political democracy is the main source of various populist movements in all parts of the world. The balance between the quest for freedom and the quest for fairness has always been moving from one side to the other, forming long political ...