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Doesn human rights funding involve interference in the internal affairs and national sovereignty of other countries?

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Doesn human rights funding involve interference in the internal affairs and national sovereignty of other countries?

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Human rights funding goes both to international groups and to domestic ones that may well be trying to change their home government. It may interfere with a government’s “rights” to arbitrary imprisonment, summary execution, mass eviction or homeland destruction, but human rights treaties have already denied the legitimacy of such actions. It can be a hard call, though, in less obvious cases, particularly when government is not the object of the protest. When is one arrogantly to imposing one’s own standards on others and when is one defending a universal principle? It can be difficult to say at what point someone else’s cultural practice becomes a human rights abuse – is it a violation of international child labor standards, for instance, if children help their parents on the farm? It could be. It is important to be sure that protests come from the community involved and not from some international NGO acting without local partnership and initiative. Valentine Doyle, Program Officer L

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