#human rights

The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#assume #council #development #france #full

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

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

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

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

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 Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre. ↗

— Ed Markey

#corrupt #groups #human #human rights #hundreds

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

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#ensuring #freedoms #human #human rights #nobody

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#fight #human #human rights #need #references