On its Web page, OneWorld Online claims to be the most popular human and environmental rights site on the Web. It's a plethora of international rights organizations, think tanks, research institutes and more, joining forces to do what they can't do alone. But for all the combined power and influence of these think tanks and institutes, the problems they are trying to solve, separately and together, still persist and are getting worse. The Family Research Council regularly attacks the United Nations for failure to address human rights issues. Amnesty International attacks the U.S. government for failure to force China to comply with human rights abuses before trade takes place.
College students bitch about tuition rates while Honduras drowns beneath a sea of mud.
Suburbia whines when their local video store runs out of copies of the latest blockbuster on a Friday night. The United Nations declares that close to 70 countries are hungrier today than they were about 20 years ago. This year is the 50th anniversary of the United Nation's Declaration on Human Rights. The United Nations has negotiated, since its inception in 1948, close to 60 human rights treaties and declarations. Its two major agreements are the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Bill of Rights.