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Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.
Blake Farenthold
/
Home
Basic Human Rights
Focused
Human Rights
Noses
Problem
Regions
Rights
Trafficking
Basic
Efforts
Major
Major Problem
Occurs
Victims
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Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.
Pope Benedict Xvi
/
Men
Human Rights
Population
Rights
Consequences
Crises
Man-Made
Grave
Sustained
Violations
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In the year 2010, Kenya adopted a new constitution. With that constitution, we further secured the human rights and civil liberties of our citizens and entrenched constitutional governance and justice.
Mwai Kibaki
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Former President Of Kenya
Adopted
Civil Liberties
Governance
Human Rights
Secured
Constitutional
Entrenched
Further
Liberties
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'The Look of Silence' is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. It's distributed by two government bodies, the National Human Rights Commission and the Jakarta Arts Council.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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Film Director
Council
Human Rights
Release
Silence
Wide
Cinemas
Commission
Distributed
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It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
Joichi Ito
/
Entrepreneur
Human Rights
Innocent
International
Law
Rights
Terrorism
Would Be
Attacks
Define
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At the Human Rights Foundation, I love being able to drive an interview and value-connecting with someone I'm interviewing so that they feel comfortable enough to open up and share their story with me.
Elizabeth Chambers
/
Comfortable
Human Rights
Rights
Share
Drive
Love Enough Me
Open
Interview
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Terrorist groups share an agenda of authoritarianism, misogyny, and intolerance. They are an affront to the common values encapsulated in the U.N. Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Antonio Guterres
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Portuguese Politician
Affront
Authoritarianism
Charter
Declaration
Human Rights
Intolerance
Terrorist
Common Values
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
Randi Weingarten
/
Attorney
Doubt
Enjoyed
Human Rights
Innocence
Presumption
Walking
Benefit
Worrying
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Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Prime Minister Of Turkey
Administration
Doe
Giving
Human Rights
Paramount
Rights
Secure
Citizen
Confidently
Direction
Gives
Rule
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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
/
Writer
Determined
Fascism
Fundamentalism
Human Rights
Iran
Reminders
Terrorism
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I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
Samuel P. Huntington
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Political Scientist
Commitment
Country
Human Rights
Influence
Moving
Nations
Other Countries
Western
Clearly
Commitments
Direction
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Armstrong Williams
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Author
Abuse
Basic Human Rights
Contempt
Democratic
Fanatics
Hands
Human Rights
Religious
Rights
Animate
Basic
Believers
Betrays
Democratic Societies
Societies
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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Jimmy Carter
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39Th U.s. President
Life
Devoted
Human Rights
Liberty
Nourishment
Nuclear
Patriotic
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Resources
Rights
Spiritual
Survival
This Generation
Generation
Inhabitants
Ours
Physical
Planet
Whose
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir Putin
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President Of Russia
Government
Democratic
Human Rights
Mankind
Provocative
Shortcomings
Transient
Anything
Authoritarian
Forms
Dictatorships
Whatever
Proves
Superior
Systems
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Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
Stephen Harper
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Prime Minister Of Canada
Democratic
Democratic Society
Existence
Fundamentals
Human Rights
Rights
Scary
Totalitarianism
Attack
Basic
Evolving
Freedoms
Fundamental
In Fact
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The system of racial classification is fiction, and we need to thoughtfully evaluate whether perpetuating it rigidly or allowing fluidity across the spectrum best supports human rights and social justice.
Rachel Dolezal
/
Allowing
Classification
Evaluate
Fluidity
Human Rights
Perpetuating
Social Justice
Spectrum
Racial
Supports
Thoughtfully
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All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.
Ernestine Rose
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Abolitionist
Behalf
Elevation
Human Rights
Humble
Particular
Raised
Rights
Voice
All My Life
Nearly
Powers
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There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.
Dorothy Height
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Educator
Respect
Civil Rights
Contradiction
Enforcement
Human Rights
Law Enforcement
Rights
Taken
Civil
Dr
Dr. King
Effective
Fashions
Stir
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My friend Harry Belafonte is an activist and musician, an extraordinary man who has dedicated his life to human rights. He taught me the power of words and that music can be used to heal and educate people.
Dianne Reeves
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Jazz Singer
Dedicated
Educate
Extraordinary
Heal
Human Rights
Musician
Rights
Taught
Words
Life Power Music
Friend
Harry
My Friend
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I love music; I love performance. I love everything revolving around art. But I also am really passionate about politics and human rights and science and the environment. Those are things that fascinate me.
Lauren Jauregui
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Singer
Human Rights
Revolving
Fascinate
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Business must go on reiterating its absolute commitment to embedding human rights in all it does, driving industry change through collaboration with governments, international organizations, and each other.
Paul Polman
/
Executive
Collaboration
Human Rights
Absolute
Governments
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
Madeleine Albright
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Former United States Secretary Of State
Inspiring
Behalf
Better Future
First Lady
Human Rights
Conference
Courageously
Hillary
Lady
Spoke
Stood
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Should the U.S. grant preferential treatment on trade to an egregious human rights violator that allows human traffickers to operate unencumbered within its borders? The obvious answer would seem to be 'No.'
Mark Meadows
/
Borders
Human Rights
Obvious
Treatment
Grant
Operate
Unencumbered
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We have a moral obligation to raise awareness and educate those around us so we can create a world where human trafficking is a thing of the past, and bring these human rights violations to an immediate end.
Jacky Rosen
/
Awareness
Educate
Human Rights
Moral
Moral Obligation
Obligation
Past
Rights
Trafficking
Thing
Around
Those
Bring
Create
Human
Immediate
Raise
Violations
Where
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Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights abuses before doing business with a particular country or distributor.
Rebecca Mackinnon
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Blogger
Abuse
Determine
Diligence
Human Rights
Likelihood
Particular
Carry
Companies
Due
Distributor
Technologies
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I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.
Ellen Degeneres
/
Comedian
Activist
Animal
Animal Rights
Care
Compassion
Controversy
Equal
Equal Rights
Human Rights
Political
Rights
Person
Human
Look
Passionately
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
Daisaku Ikeda
/
President
Genuine
Human Rights
Real
School
Sensitivity
Struggle
Daily
Inculcated
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The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.
John Bruton
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Former Taoiseach
Common
Democracy
Guarantees
Human Rights
Justice
Nations
Organization
Rights
Trade
Freedom Respect Democracy
Guarantee
Market
Trade Organization
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While the One Child Policy has been effective in drastically reducing Chinese birth rates, the measures adopted in its name have required exhaustive, violent, insidious and systemic violations of human rights.
Kerry Kennedy
/
Writer
Adopted
Human Rights
Insidious
Reducing
Drastically
Exhaustive
Measures
Rates
Required
Systemic
Violations
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Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.
Linda Chavez
/
Author
Basic Human Rights
Cruelty
Denied
Human Rights
Prejudice
Rights
Unspeakable
Violence
White
Acts
Allowed
Basic
Blacks
Encouraged
Engage
Southerners
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
Fatou Bensouda
/
Lawyer
Country
Human Rights
Including
Rights
Thinking
Translate
Crimes
Investigate
Opinions
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Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.
Winnie Byanyima
/
Engineer
Xenophobia
Building Blocks
Cooperation
Development
Human Rights
Nations
Poison
Prosperity
Blocks
Shared
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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
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Venezuelan Politician
Affinity
Country
Human Rights
Iran
Rights
Venezuela
Relations
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For centuries, the courts took the view that preserving the discretion of the authorities trumped the rights of victims to hold them to account. It was because of the Human Rights Act that this began to change.
Emily Thornberry
/
Discretion
Human Rights
Account
Authorities
Centuries
Courts
Preserving
Victims
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Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.
Arthur L. Herman
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Historian
Driving
Folks
Human Rights
Income
Income Tax
Iran
Nations
Rights
Syria
United Nations
Tax
Committee
Worldwide
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Hostility to the Human Rights Act has been present in sections of the Conservative Party since its enactment, and this has grown more strident with the passage of time, encouraged by some sections of the press.
Dominic Grieve
/
Conservative
Conservative Party
Hostility
Human Rights
Sections
Enactment
Grown
Passage
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It's not so easy to be gay or even a woman in some places in the world, and in many countries, it's illegal to be gay. You can be put to death. It's a global struggle. A human rights struggle on a global scale.
Gilbert Baker
/
Death
Easy
Human Rights
Illegal
Rights
Struggle
Scale
Woman
Countries
Global
Places
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The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.
Chuck Hagel
/
United States Secretary Of Defense
History
Critical
Democracy
Development
Economic
Economic Development
Human Rights
Nations
Needs
Play
Reform
Relevant
Rights
Security
Stability
Today
United Nations
Time History Democracy
Time History Today
Role
Un
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The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
Bianca Jagger
/
Actress
War
British
Commitment
Fundraising
Human Rights
Nicaragua
Red
Rights
Began
Campaign
Turning
Cross
Turning Point
Victims
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I think part of what we're seeing in the rise of white nationalism is their response to Black Lives Matter, is their response to an ever-increasing fight for equal rights, for civil rights, and for human rights.
Patrisse Cullors
/
Civil Rights
Equal Rights
Human Rights
Nationalism
Response
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Understanding how your business affects human rights and using that knowledge to shape appropriate policies and practices is crucial to achieving what should be the goal of all corporations - sustainable growth.
Cherie Blair
/
Barrister
Appropriate
Corporations
Crucial
Human Rights
Achieving
Affects
Sustainable
Policies
Practices
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Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.
Linda Chavez
/
Author
War
Abuse
Afghanistan
Captured
Critics
Enemy
Fronts
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay
Human Rights
Iraq
January
Rights
Terror
Bay
Began
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In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.
David Korten
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Author
Giving
Human Rights
Inequality
Institutions
Legitimacy
Precedence
Property
Property Rights
Rights
World
Increasing
Inevitably
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When you look at human rights, look at gender, and the rights of girls for education in the world - that are crucial issues - some are saying 'Oh, these are western values.' But these are really universal values.
Antonio Guterres
/
Portuguese Politician
Crucial
Gender
Human Rights
Rights
Western
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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 Polanyi
/
Contrary
Human Rights
Scholarship
Alien
Essential
Integral
On The Contrary
Wisely
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The United States, under President Trump, is abdicating an important moral obligation to all democracies by seeming to shrug off the most egregious of human rights violations from both our allies and our enemies.
S.e. Cupp
/
Allies
Human Rights
Moral Obligation
Obligation
Seeming
Enemies
President Trump
Violations
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The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.
Ban Ki-Moon
/
Diplomat
Achieve
Active
Contributing
Council
Czech
Czech Republic
Democratic
Disputes
Helping
Human Rights
Nations
Other Countries
Peaceful
Republic
Rights
Settlement
Transition
United Nations
Dynamic
Member
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Women's rights are nothing but a part of the bigger picture, which is human rights. Women are trusted with the lives of their kids, even serve as teachers and doctors, but they aren't trusted with their own lives.
Manal Al-Sharif
/
Bigger
Bigger Picture
Doctors
Human Rights
Trusted
Picture
Women Are
Teachers
Serve
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For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.
Tom Stoppard
/
Playwright
Knowledge
Clear
Human Rights
Moral
Moral Values
Rights
Child
Simply
Derives
Set
Endorse
Fair
Perfectly
Perfectly Clear
View
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I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
Sam Brownback
/
Governor Of Kansas
Format
Human Rights
United Nations
Weak
Discuss
Harmful
Institution
Many Respects
Respects
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