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Decoupling Human Rights

NPR

Published June 4, 1996 at 12:00 AM EDT

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Commentator Andrei Codrescu thinks that human rights have disappeared from the political radar screen. He says they are now no longer in vogue, and that politicians are caving to the wishes of countries like China.