#human rights

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

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

In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception. ↗

— Justin Sane

#business #celebrate #doing #exception #general

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#help #human #human rights #improve #korean

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#human rights #rights #women

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

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online. ↗

— John Doolittle

#appear #charge #control #could #countries

We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#brighter future #conference #established #explore #freedom

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#basic human rights #food #human #human rights #must