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(1819 News) – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a Montgomery-based far-left activist organization, sent a delegation to Geneva, Switzerland, to make recommendations to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC).
The SPLC purports to categorize hate and extremist groups on its “hate map” and has a history of working with federal law enforcement agencies such as the FBI. It has long been accused of tarnishing conservative and libertarian organizations by falsely labeling them racist.
Earlier this month, U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and James Lankford (R-Okla.), in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, condemned the FBI for still using the SPLC to obtain data about hate and extremist groups in the United States.
Several others accompanied the activist group’s president and CEO, Margaret Huang, to Europe, including victims of racially motivated crimes, former prisoners and an activist who was a plaintiff in Alabama’s recent redistricting case. The delegation spoke before the UNHRC during a review of the United States’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1966. The covenant currently has 173 parties, and…
