#human right

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#american #american interests #both #china #dialogue

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#here #home #human #human right #invented

Iran has a dismal record on human rights. ↗

— Howard Berman

#human #human rights #iran #record #rights

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#human #human rights #interests #national #national interests

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

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#aiming #been #commodity #democracy #focus

Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#being #believe #centre #confronted #damages

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#beginning #character #commission #consequence #doubts

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

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#foreign #foreign policy #human #human rights #our