Dialogue with IACHR Candidates: Douglass Cassel
Responses to written questions submitted during an open forum with the six candidates nominated by the member states to serve on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Responses to written questions submitted during an open forum with the six candidates nominated by the member states to serve on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The relationship between the United States and the IACHR is historically complex, and the Trump Administration may be tempted to pull back—but engagement is still the best way to serve US strategic interests.
Defeat at the OAS meeting was the first concrete setback for US interests as a result of the Trump Administration’s apparent ambivalence about defending democratic values.