Roman Catholicism and the Faith-based Movement for Global Human Rights
Allen Hertzke Thursday, 1 December 2005
Beginning in the mid 1990s a new movement burst unexpectedly onto the international stage—a faith-based quest devoted to advancing human rights through the machinery of American foreign policy. This movement of unlikely allies passed a series of landmark congressional initiatives on international religious freedom, trafficking of women and children, atrocities in North Korea, and genocide in Sudan.
In 2005 movement leaders set their sights on an even more ambitious goal: legislation aimed at implementing comprehensive long-term strategies for ending dictatorships around the world. If true to form, this legislation will pass at the end of the 109th Congress, in 2006, rounding out a decade of lobbying achievements. This movement is filling a void in human rights advocacy, raising issues previously slighted—or insufficiently pressed—by secular groups, the foreign policy establishment, and the prestige press.
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