#human rights

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#almost #between #conflict #connection #decades

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

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 world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#anything #conduct #highest #highest standards #holds

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#also #contrary #essential #general #grafted

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#around #human #human rights #influence #rights

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

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#human #human rights #more #much #praised

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights. ↗

— Judith Light

#aids #cure #fight #finding #focus