John Sifton: “I think it's good to pivot here to talk about how the U.S. can voice its displeasure with this situation.”

It would be a mistake to fear a situation in which established political forces are so weakened that they cease to exist.

Unfortunately, if the U.S. is not going to be in Geneva to do that, it'll fall to other countries, and that is a terrible indictment of this administration's commitment to promoting human rights.

There is no doubt. There is no doubt at all. There is worldwide crackdown on civil society underway, and this is but one example.

I would submit that membership in an entity who purports to espouse particular values as it relates to basic human rights and yet allows actors who are some of the most egregious violators of those values the positions and authority that…