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Blinken pledges to ‘repudiate’ State Department human rights commission

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President-elect Biden’s nominee to become the next secretary of state on Tuesday said he would “repudiate” a controversial human rights advisory commission his would-be predecessor created.

Outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2019 announced the Commission for Unalienable Rights — chaired by Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard Law School professor and former U.S.

ambassador to the Vatican who is known for her opposition to marriage rights for same-sex couples — would stress “natural laws and natural rights.” Antony Blinken in response to a question that U.S.

Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) asked during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reiterated his opposition to the commission that the Center for Global

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