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To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.


Suzanne Vega


#belongs #category #differently #feminist #human

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.


Shirin Ebadi


#excuse #human #human rights #idea #nothing

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.


Shirin Ebadi


#example #give #hope #human #human rights

I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said "There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution."


Bradley Whitford


#heard #human #human rights #i #interesting

Iran has a dismal record on human rights.


Howard Berman


#human #human rights #iran #record #rights

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

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

Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.


Nick Lampson


#been #democracy #democratically #elected #era






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