As he has in years past, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation honoring this week as Human Rights Week. As The World’s Rupa Shenoy reports, the proclamation was the final salvo in a four-year campaign by Evangelicals in the Trump administration to narrow the definition of human rights in a way that has angered many human rights activists.
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