#human rights

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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.


Carlos Fuentes


#conventions #geneva #ghraib #happened #human

Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.


Elton Gallegly


#based #built #croatia #democratic #democratic society

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.


Theresa May


#because #go #had #human #human rights

Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.


Sheila Jackson Lee


#better #doing #exchanging #human #human rights

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.


John Linder


#countries #deplorable #examples #few #human

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.


Anna Lindh


#democracy #development #economic #environmental #global

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.


Anna Lindh


#compromise #excuse #fight #human #human rights

The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.


Gary Locke


#beijing #china #clear #direction #dissent

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.


Wangari Maathai


#almost #between #conflict #connection #decades

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.


Nelson Mandela


#deny #human #human rights #humanity #people