#human right

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#animal #animal rights #being #human #human rights

But if USA has 1.3 billion people, USA would have the same human rights problem just like China. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#china #human #human rights #just #like

Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#charged #charges #clients #crimes #human

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 world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#added #behind #being #between #connect

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

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

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#cast #casts #commission #committee #disarmament

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#back #brought #chance #commission #crimes