Chronicle: "UN Seems Impotent on Human Rights"

The following column by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joel Brinkley, syndicated in
newspapers across America, appears on page E-5 of today's San Francisco Chronicle.

U.N. seems impotent on human rights
Joel Brinkley
Sunday, October 2, 2011
United Nations -- Listening to dissidents from around the world speaking at a conference here, you come away thinking there has to be a school somewhere for evil, vicious despots. From Africa to Asia, Europe to Latin America, the gambits these men use to quash dissent sound remarkably similar, state to state.

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© 2011 Joel Brinkley Joel Brinkley, a professor of journalism at Stanford University, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former foreign correspondent for the New York Times. To comment, go to http://sfgate.com/chronicle/submissions/#1

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