Human Rights Quotes
On dignity, law, and holding power accountable.
This Human Rights quotes collection addresses accountability in international bodies, including concerns that groups with poor records can still hold council membership. See our Slogans page.
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
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All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.
Abu Quotes
The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on 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...
Additionally Quotes
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.
Arabia Quotes
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.
The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.
China Quotes
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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