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When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.
Shirin Ebadi
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Lawyer
Respect
Human Rights
President
Rights
Vote
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I stated that aboriginals deserve protection under Canada's human rights laws and that the record dollars that the government is spending on aboriginals should reach the people in need.
Pierre Poilievre
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Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Canada
Human Rights
Protection
Government People Deserve
Stated
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Kashmiri people are fighting the war for freedom. And India cannot stop this freedom movement through atrocities, as Kashmir dispute is a problem of humanity, human rights, and freedom.
Shehbaz Sharif
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Freedom
War
Atrocities
Fighting
Human Rights
Humanity
India
Movement
People
Problem
Rights
Cannot
Through
Dispute
Human
Stop
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Nelson Mandela saw the potential of Africa and dedicated his life to changing the world in which we live while inspiring a movement towards social justice, peace and equal human rights.
Masai Ujiri
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General Manager
Inspiring
Changing The World
Dedicated
Human Rights
Nelson
Social Justice
Mandela
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Nelson Mandela represents an enduring example of the human spirit and he proved for eternity that the ideals of democracy and human rights can overcome even the direst of circumstances.
Kerry Kennedy
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Writer
Eternity
Human Rights
Ideals
Nelson
Overcome
Enduring
Mandela
Proved
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People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.
Cherie Blair
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Barrister
Dignity
Human Rights
Islamic
Tradition
Western
Construct
Integral
Integral Part
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Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.
Allyson Schwartz
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U.s. Representative
Abhorrent
Human Rights
International
Iran
Nuclear
Practice
Pursuit
Rights
Terrorist
Weapons
Pose
Practices
Threats
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There are people of conscience all over the world, famous leaders, as well as unsung heroes and 'sheroes,' who are carrying forward the nonviolent movement for freedom and human rights.
Martin Luther King Iii
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Advocate
Conscience
Human Rights
Carrying
Nonviolent
Unsung
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My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
Hans Rosling
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Professor
Data
Development
Empowerment
Human Rights
Interest
Numbers
Rights
Measure
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We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
Bob Menendez
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United States Senator
Destruction
Elimination
Human Rights
International
Mass
Mass Destruction
Mutual
Objectives
Promoting
Rights
Support
Weapons
Abroad
Freedom Respect Democracy
Seek
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We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse of human rights, political censorship and mass incarceration.
Joshua Wong
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Home
Abuse
Censorship
Children
Human Rights
Incarceration
Long
Mass
Political
Rights
Surveillance
Political Long Will
Will
Civil
Human
Freedoms
Respected
Subject
Where
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Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.
Rebecca Mackinnon
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Blogger
Environmental
Batting
Hiring
Human Rights
Labor
Poisoning
Rights
Companies
Course
Global
Movements
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I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.
Chen Shui-Bian
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Politician
Confidence
Smile
Basic Human Rights
Human Rights
Rights
Roots
Taiwan
Basic
Daily
Daily Lives
Eventually
Root
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Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.
Kofi Annan
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Diplomat
Activity
Economic
Forget
Human Rights
Law
Mistake
Rights
Rule Of Law
Security
Stability
Economic Activity
Pillar
Terms
Rule
Third
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My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.
Mike Farrell
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Actor
Dream
Family
Happy
Future
Continuing
Healthy
Human Rights
Long
Lovely
Motorcycle
Reform
Rights
Serious
Simple
Struggle
Awaken
Human
Ride
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The framework for everything I've done has been human rights. That is about protecting the vulnerable and giving people access to courts where they wouldn't otherwise have access to courts.
Keir Starmer
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Barrister
Framework
Human Rights
Courts
People Done Everything
Protecting
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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
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Former U.s. Representative
Ascendancy
Democracy
Human Rights
Legislature
President
Rights
Taiwan
Democratically
Moreover
Vibrant
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Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.
John Prendergast
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Human Rights Activist
Human Rights
Solutions
Africa
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At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.
Elliott Abrams
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Lawyer
Allies
Cold
Cold War
Height
Human Rights
Satellites
Shirk
Debates
Soviets
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I was brought up in a family of journalists, and a mother who was deeply committed to human rights, so I think that the mix of those two huge influences have been very, very important to me.
Anna Wintour
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Magazine Editor
Committed
Human Rights
Family Me Important
Influences
Journalists
Mix
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What I'm trying to bring attention to is that human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.
Nikki Haley
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American Politician
Conflict
Human Rights
Focus Important People
First Place
Governments
Important Part
Prevent
Treating
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Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
Anna Lindh
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Swedish Politician
Respect
Accepted
Compromise
Excuse
Fighting
Human Rights
Law
Rights
Rule Of Law
Terrorism
Together
Used
Fight
Human
Must
Methods
Rule
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Many American pundits and foreign policy experts love to depict themselves as crusaders for human rights, but it almost always takes the form of condemning other governments, never their own.
Glenn Greenwald
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Journalist
Condemning
Experts
Foreign Policy
Human Rights
Pundits
Love Always Never
Depict
Governments
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Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide army to campaign freely for power.
Stephen Kinzer
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Author
Army
Defeated
Genocide
Human Rights
Political Parties
Campaign
Ethnic
Freely
Parties
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Bhutto's regime is remembered for having one of the worst human rights records in Pakistan's history, and her government did not allow the media freedoms she criticizes Musharraf for crushing.
Richard Engel
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Journalist
Human Rights
Pakistan
Remembered
Criticizes
Crushing
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The United States expects a lot of its partners and allies, including joint patrolling, significant contributions to armed conflicts, and a strict adherence to human rights, among other things.
John Mccain
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United States Senator
Adherence
Allies
Human Rights
Partners
Significant
Strict
Armed
Conflicts
Contributions
Expects
Joint
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The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions - and Iraq may be one of them - when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.
Michael Ignatieff
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Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Disagreeable
Human Rights
Regimes
Remedy
Terror
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The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.
Roger Waters
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Musician
Consensus
Court
Criminal Justice
Criminals
Human Rights
International
Justice
Rights
States
United States
Criminal
Held
Taking
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It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.
Breyten Breytenbach
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Writer
Abnormal
Circumstances
Conditions
Criteria
Example
Human Rights
Situation
Extreme
Brought
Precisely
Surely
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I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.
Hannah Simone
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Television Actress
Briefing
Daily Show
Human Rights
Policy
Projects
Rights
Daily
Officer
Realized
Refugees
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Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.
Ted Deutch
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Aisle
Exposing
Gas
Human Rights
Iran
Oil
Sanctions
Applying
Cracking
Crippling
Industries
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Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.
Ali Khamenei
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Supreme Leader Of Iran
Advocating
Country
Forty
Human Rights
Outspoken
Rights
Years
People Human Who
Forty Years
Fundamental
Grabbed
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We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.
Anthony Lewis
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Claims
Human Rights
Hypocrisy
Fight World People
Led
Prisoners
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We believe that human rights always applies to the majority, who should have its rights protected. When people demonstrate and go to the streets, they deprive the majority from earning a living.
Mahathir Mohamad
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Former Prime Minister Of Malaysia
Earning
Human Rights
Majority
Protected
Streets
Believe Always People
Demonstrate
Deprive
Believe Living People
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Patients who have suffered appalling medical negligence, abused children ignored by social services, mistreated residents of care homes - they have all been given a voice by the Human Rights Act.
Emily Thornberry
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Medical
Abuse
Human Rights
Ignored
Mistreated
Negligence
Residents
Appalling
Suffered
Homes
Patients
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On April 27th 2017 the UK approved Magnitsky Sanctions as part of the Criminal Finances Bill. The provision gives the British government the power to seize assets of gross human rights violators.
Bill Browder
/
Approved
Assets
British
British Government
Gross
Human Rights
Provision
Sanctions
Bill
Criminal
Finances
Seize
Uk
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France has been struck on the day of her national holiday - the 14th of July, Bastille Day - the symbol of liberty, because human rights are denied by fanatics, and France is clearly their target.
Francois Hollande
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President Of France
Denied
Fanatics
Holiday
Human Rights
July
Liberty
Target
Struck
Symbol
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Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.
Andrei Sakharov
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Nuclear Physicist, Human Rights Activist
Country
Democratic
Economy
Human Rights
Ideological
Opening
Opening Up
Pluralism
Profound
Protection
Rights
Reforms
Mixed
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And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have.
Hugh Shelton
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Military Officer
Human Rights
Nations
Partners
Passing
Pure
Check
Occasionally
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I think one of the reasons that Arch Enemy gels so well as people and musically is because we all share very similar values when it comes to human rights, animal rights... even politics, religion.
Alissa White-Gluz
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Animal
Animal Rights
Enemy
Human Rights
Rights
Share
Politics Religion People
Arch
Musically
Reasons
Similar
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In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.
Alan Dershowitz
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Lawyer
Claims
Exposed
Human Rights
Persist
Radical
Rights
Support
World
Distorted
Seat
False
Ideologies
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I didn't plan that there'd be this awful situation in which our European governments, just to start the story off, breaking the Geneva conventions on the protection on the human rights of refugees.
Vanessa Redgrave
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Actress
Conventions
Geneva
Human Rights
Protection
Breaking
Governments
Refugees
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By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and more just world for our succeeding generations.
Ban Ki-Moon
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Diplomat
Development
Generations
Human Rights
Nations
Peaceful
Pillars
Prosperous
Rights
Security
Strengthening
United
United Nations
Build
Succeeding
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From my experience both as DPP and previously as a human rights lawyer, I know that human rights and effective protection from terrorism are not incompatible. On the contrary, they go hand in hand.
Keir Starmer
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Barrister
Contrary
Human Rights
Protection
Terrorism
Incompatible
On The Contrary
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I do not want to be associated with those that are willing to support undermining the basic human rights that socialists have fought and sacrificed themselves to secure and protect over generations.
John Mcdonnell
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Basic Human Rights
Generations
Human Rights
Protect
Secure
Undermining
Willing
Associated
Basic
Fought
Sacrificed
Socialists
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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
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Consequence
Human Rights
Commission
Doubts
Functions
Innovations
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In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.
John Prendergast
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Human Rights Activist
Concrete
Human Rights
Human Suffering
Reduction
Rights
Suffering
Achieved
Solid
Required
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It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law.
Judith Butler
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Philosopher
Human Rights
International Law
Trials
Jewish
Jewish People
Oppose
Surely
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How can human rights be ever developed for the majority of Chinese people? The only way is to organize. To organize workers, peasants, merchants, industrialists, and students at the grassroots level.
Sun Yat-Sen
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Politician
Chinese
Grassroots
Human Rights
Majority
Merchants
Organize
Peasants
Rights
Workers
People Way Human
Chinese People
Developed
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It's widely recognized that there is no peace without development and no development without peace; it is also true that there is no peace and sustainable development without respect for human rights.
Antonio Guterres
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Portuguese Politician
Peace
Respect
Development
Human Rights
Rights
Sustainable Development
Also
True
Without
Sustainable
Human
Recognized
Widely
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