#human rights

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#broaden #civil #civil rights #community #decades

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that. ↗

— Peter Krause

#human #human rights #i #like #political

Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#authorities #happened #human #human rights #liberation

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #apartheid #beings #children #classification

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#bush #bush administration #critical #critics #generally

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#feet #find #force #god #however

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality. ↗

— Bono

#africa #dignity #equality #facing #here

As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#cultural #declaration #economic #every #full

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#broad #charter #communicated #conference #courage

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#human #human rights #including #kind #minority