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Two decades ago, under President Bush, the State Department advocated for the Senate to start ratifying one major human rights treaty per year. That goal seems distant in the context of current political partisanship, but it imagined an ambitious overhaul of human rights rhetoric to better lead the democratic world by example after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In the midst of what many are calling the Arab world’s 1989, the United States has a chance to revisit that effort, and reaffirm President Carter’s declaration: “Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the soul of our sense of nationhood.”

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