Jimmy Carter says U.S. violating one third of UN human rights rules

Telegraph, UK - Jimmy Carter, the former US president, has warned that America is losing its moral authority on human rights by engaging in targeted assassinations, including drone attacks.
 
Mr Carter charged that US counterterrorism police was in violation of 10 of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in an opinion piece in The New York Times.

"Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation's violation of human rights has extended," he said.

Mr Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work in resolving conflicts since leaving office in 1980, is credited with having made human rights a central theme of US foreign policy.

"At a time when popular revolutions are sweeping the globe, the United States should be strengthening, not weakening, basic rules of law and principles of justice enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," he wrote.