12 U.S.-related human rights stories the press is missing ASK THIS | July 208, 2011 We fight all over the globe in the name of human rights, but our own citizenry is woefully ignorant about the fundamental rights of men and women, writes the author of a new encyclopedia of human rights in the U.S. Meanwhile, our own leaders pick and choose which norms they feel like observing and which they don't and rely on our ignorance to get away with it.