Day One, Panel One: Aryeh Neier

"Today, governments are responsive to the human rights impulse. And when they don't respond, as when they didn't respond in Rwanda, you have a phenomenon such as President Clinton traveling to Kigali and apologizing for the failure of the United States to respond effectively to the genocide in Rwanda."

"(W)e do need to be mindful that it is still states that above all have to protect rights. We have to try to limit our interventions in ways in which we don't undermine the idea of the state to the point where we exacerbate the weakness that states have in actually protecting human rights."

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