Are human rights organizations fronts for American foreign policy agencies?

In some parts of the world, people think that human rights organizations are agents of US imperialism rather than neutral purveyors of the truth or partisans for the poor and oppressed.

In this piece in Political Studies Quarterly, my colleague and I look at results from our surveys around the world to see what average views about this are: https://www.psqonline.org/viewContent.cfm?sk=28F4EBD3CBD41FEEC318C3CF3EA40ACD06CCE9AAB15E85C6BB90B7D7F0CFFE

About James Ron

James Ron is an international research consultant who taught for 22 years in higher ed in Canada, Mexico, and the US. Before that, he was a consultant for Human Rights Watch and other international agencies and reported for the Associated Press.

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