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5. Just to clarify, this is not the same as Human Rights CAMPAIGN
Tue Nov 11, 2014, 11:56 PM
Nov 2014

Human Rights Watch is the international (apparently U.N.-related somehow) human rights NGO the OP is saying doesn't give much attention to economic and social rights.

Human Rights Campaign is the domestically-based gay rights organization that nevertheless keeps an eye on LGBT-rights violations globally, and condemns Putin for egging on his thugs to beat up gay Russians. Over here, they lobby against discriminatory Jesus Freak morons like Chick Fillet who believe in the right to fire LGBT people because "muh religion sez so."

One could easily argue that it is, in fact, unfettered capitalism (and carte-blanche "religious freedom&quot that allows businesses to be treated as "people" with "religious beliefs" that "require" them to fire LGBT people in accordance with their "faith."

Similar names, different agendas.

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