For all their high-minded rhetoric about free speech and expression, some “human rights” activists and lawyers seem zealously opposed to allowing debate. As a
Leila Sadat, a law professor and founder of the Initiative on Gun Violence & Human Rights at Washington University in St. Louis, equates the U.S. government’s failure to prevent and reduce gun violence with violating children's human rights. “The pitiful spectacle of politicians offering ‘thoughts and prayers’ as kids are buried is lamentable and an abdication of their oath of office,” Sadat recently wrote in an essay. "Children have a fundamental human right not to suffer ill-treatment in school. America’s adults are failing them.”
HRW has clearly demonstrated in recent years that it is more interested in partisan politics and anti-Semitic canards than in honest discussions of international law. Respectable legal institutions, like White & Case and the American Branch of the International Law Association, should know better than to follow suit.
A New York Times analysis of visual evidence from Ukraine showed widespread use by Russia of cluster weapons banned under certain international treaties.