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The United Nations' Disarray

The decline of the human-rights agenda, and what evangelicals can do about it.

Joseph Loconte | posted 2/01/2007 09:11AM

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Other Christianity Today articles on the United Nations include:

De-Demonizing the UN | While bloated and badly in need of reform, the UN fills a necessary role that Christians should support. By Robert A. Seiple (December 11, 1995)

The UN's Antifamily Manifesto | The Beijing platform downplays the family, while exalting the autonomous individual. (August 1, 1995)

The Commission on Human Rights resolved to form the Human Rights Council in June 2006. A list of the Human Rights Council members by year is available on their website.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN in 1948, and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was signed in 1968.

Joseph Loconte has written several articles for Christianity Today, including:

Faith-Based Triangulation | Religious moderates propelled the Democrats to victory. (November 8, 2006)

Churches, Charity, and Civil Society | The debate over faith-based social services. (Books & Culture, September 1, 2004)

How to Really Keep the Commandments in Alabama—and Elsewhere | Since when did the public display of the Ten Commandments become the eleventh commandment? (September 1, 2003)

Litigating the Good Fight | How Christians can avoid a persecution complex (November 1, 2002)

Minister to Freedom | The legacy of John Witherspoon. (Books & Culture, July 1, 2001)

The Case for Converting Kings | Os Guinness on how to prevent the American experiment from flopping.(September 4, 2000)

He has also commented the Darfur crisis on NPR.

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Kwang

Posted: February 10, 2007 3:14 PM

As a former Advisor to the World Bank, I applaud CT for this article, which reflects a growing interest on int’l issues and organizations by thinking Christians. Loconte's shrewdly observes that the world's secular leaders dominate the UN agenda, with their confused world view regarding human nature. Today's silent tragedy is that the majority world is being shaped on the advice of secular technocrats on the mold of post-Christian West. Just like Christians transformed the Civil Rights movement, the gap in the international justice agenda is a distinctive Christian voice a la King Jr., and William Wilberforce. But the Loconte’s Commission should be an international one, even if the US creates it. This is different than the Commission on Relig Freedom, an advocacy body. When you put the word "rights,” you get into the messy world of "enforcement,” and you need to face the formidable challenge of creating int’l enforcement mechanisms to human rights violators.

Mike	Posted: February 06, 2007 4:43 PM


As an Australian Evangelical, I must agree entirely with Alex from England.

Daniel

Posted: February 06, 2007 12:40 AM


The important rights are freedoms - speech, conscience, religion. The freedom to pursue your craft, occupation or calling. And by defending these freedoms we create an environment conducive to economic growth.

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