I recall that when we launched Human Rights Watch a little more than a quarter of a century ago, a significant component of our strategy was to leverage the power, purse, and influence of the United States to promote human rights more systematically around the world. From the standpoint of those who are trying to promote human rights today, it is necessary to pursue the opposite course. One has to put as much distance as one can between one’s own efforts and the efforts of the United States government.
Whether the situation is subject to repair, if there were to be a change of administration, I do not know. The damage has been done for a very long time to come.
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