#human rights

How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran? ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#benefited #countries #democracies #how #human

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. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#allows #any #arabia #china #council

Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#any #council #countries #cuba #human

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#budgets #council #currently #fiscal #fiscal year

Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#cases #committee #congress #exploitation #human

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#community #different #different faiths #faith #faiths

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#democracy #determined #fascism #freedom #fundamentalism

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#been #bodies #depended #forefront #human

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#anyway #call #herself #human #human rights

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#human #human rights #law #response #rights