Universal Human Rights in Progressive Thought and Politics ReportOctober 8, 2010 Universal Human Rights in Progressive Thought and Politics John Halpin, William Schulz, and Sarah Dreier explore the origins of human rights principles and how they fit into progressivism. Oct 8, 2010 John Halpin, William F. Schulz, Sarah Dreier
The Triumph of Human Rights Norms ArticleDecember 10, 2009 The Triumph of Human Rights Norms On the 61st anniversary of Human Rights Day, William F. Schulz observes that the norms and values celebrated today still hold governments to account, be they democratic, like the United States, or authoritarian, like China. Dec 10, 2009 William F. Schulz
New Tools for Old Traumas ReportOctober 20, 2009 New Tools for Old Traumas Report from Sarah K. Dreier and William F. Schulz on using 21st century technologies to combat human rights atrocities. Oct 20, 2009 Sarah Dreier, William F. Schulz
Ask the Expert: Bringing International Human Rights Home VideoJune 17, 2009 Ask the Expert: Bringing International Human Rights Home Bill Schulz talks about why the United States should apply international human rights standards at home and why is hasn't made an effort to before. Jun 17, 2009 William F. Schulz
The Power of Justice ReportJune 17, 2009 The Power of Justice William F. Schulz argues in a report for the application of international human rights standards in U.S. domestic practices. Jun 17, 2009 William F. Schulz
What Does a Smaller World Mean for Human Rights? ArticleJune 3, 2009 What Does a Smaller World Mean for Human Rights? Twenty years after Tiananmen Square, promoting individual freedom in China is still a challenge, write Nina Hachigian and Bill Schulz. Jun 3, 2009 Nina Hachigian, William F. Schulz
Torture or Not, It’s Illegal and Wrong ArticleMay 14, 2009 Torture or Not, It’s Illegal and Wrong Debating whether harsh interrogation tactics used by the United States were torture or not misses the point that they're still illegal, writes William F. Schulz. May 14, 2009 William F. Schulz
Why Hillary Clinton Got It Right on China ArticleFebruary 25, 2009 Why Hillary Clinton Got It Right on China U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent comments about human rights in China have dismayed many human rights activists. Might they be overreacting? "Successive [U.S.] administrations and Chinese governments have been poised back and forth on these issues, and we have to continue to press them. But our pressing on those issues can't interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis, and the security crisis" the secretary told reporters. On what grounds could a responsible observer -- even one devoted to human rights, like myself -- disagree with those observations? Feb 25, 2009 William F. Schulz
Clinton must press China on rights ArticleFebruary 19, 2009 Clinton must press China on rights When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton touches down in Beijing this week she will face an authoritarian Chinese government wringing their hands over a remarkably brazen online petition for human rights and an end to autocratic rule that is circulating among its citizens. Feb 19, 2009 William F. Schulz, Sarah Dreier, Winny Chen
Strategic Persistence ReportJanuary 29, 2009 Strategic Persistence Report from William Schulz details how the United States can work to help improve human rights in China. Jan 29, 2009 William F. Schulz
Expanding the Meaning of Rights ArticleDecember 23, 2008 Expanding the Meaning of Rights In pronouncing health care a right, President-elect Obama took an enormous step in the direction of re-framing one of the most contested domestic issues in a way that has profound implications for a wide variety of other issues. Dec 23, 2008 William F. Schulz
Joe Moakley’s Legacy is Global Justice ArticleDecember 22, 2008 Joe Moakley’s Legacy is Global Justice The complaint filed Nov. 13 in the Spanish High Court against the former president of El Salvador and 14 former members of the Salvadoran military charging complicity in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests is a reminder that good deeds by members of Congress may bear fruit even decades after those members are gone. Dec 22, 2008 William F. Schulz
Celebrating 60 Years of Human Rights ArticleDecember 10, 2008 Celebrating 60 Years of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an astonishing achievement exactly because it is universal and a declaration, writes William Schulz. Dec 10, 2008 William F. Schulz
New Era for Human Rights ArticleNovember 25, 2008 New Era for Human Rights Bill Schulz provides a tip sheet for Obama. Nov 25, 2008 William F. Schulz
New Era for Human Rights ArticleNovember 25, 2008 New Era for Human Rights Bill Schulz offers five steps the new administration can take to signal a new era in human rights policy for the United States. Nov 25, 2008 William F. Schulz
The Right Way to Pressure Beijing ArticleMay 14, 2008 The Right Way to Pressure Beijing Human rights groups are rightly outraged about China’s abysmal record. But it is foolhardy to treat a rising superpower like a tin-pot dictatorship. May 14, 2008 William F. Schulz
The Right Way to Pressure Beijing ArticleApril 29, 2008 The Right Way to Pressure Beijing When the U.S. Congress recently passed a resolution calling on Beijing to end its repression of dissent in Tibet and open a dialogue with the Dalai Lama, a Chinese spokesperson declared that the resolution had “seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.” Nor was this the first time the Chinese had expressed emotional distress at some political gesture. Everyone from the Icelandic singer Björk, who shouted “Tibet! Tibet!” at the end of a concert in Shanghai, to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who met with the Dalai Lama in Ottawa, has been accused of hurting the feelings of the Chinese. Indeed, the Chinese might be the only people who regard the rantings of CNN’s Jack Cafferty, who referred to the Chinese government as “goons and thugs,” as worth taking seriously. Nerves this sensitive bespeak either a severe case of adolescent angst or a revealing insight into national character, or both. It is hard to imagine Vladimir Putin or Robert Mugabe, or George W. Bush for that matter, confessing to having hurt feelings about anything, much less the kind of symbolic ephemera that seem to regularly rile the Chinese. Apr 29, 2008 William F. Schulz
Standing Up for Human Rights ArticleDecember 10, 2007 Standing Up for Human Rights Bill Schulz reflects on the need to recover the American tradition of leading the world toward ending human rights abuses. Dec 10, 2007 William F. Schulz