This section of Discover The Networks profiles
organizations identifying themselves as human-rights groups, but
whose concerns, far from accepting this long tradition of Western
thought, are actually shaped by radical agendas. Many such
organizations use their purported commitment to human rights, and
their allegations of human-rights violations by others, as rhetorical
bludgeons with which to publicly defame and discredit governments,
peoples, or nations they oppose. For a comprehensive definition and discussion of human rights as a concept, click here.