Hilary Clinton chooses human rights activist as assistant secretary of state.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to name human rights activist Michael Posner to the position of assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, Bloomberg News reports. Posner is currently the director of Human Rights First. Reports Bloomberg:

Posner’s organization works with activists in countries including Guatemala, Russia, Zimbabwe and Indonesia. He drafted and campaigned for a 1992 U.S. law called the Torture Victim Protection Act, designed to give victims of the most serious abuses a remedy in U.S. courts, according to the Human Rights First Web site.

In 1998, Posner led the group’s delegation to a Rome conference where the statute for the International Criminal Court was adopted, according to a short biography on the Web site. The Obama administration has signaled support for the ICC, a tribunal the Bush administration said didn’t offer adequate protections against politica

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