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" A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers demand it. "
Sharan Burrow
" Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform. "
Michael McCaul
" Afghan human rights campaigners worry that U.S. forces may be using secret detention sites like the one allegedly at Rish-Khor to carry out interrogations away from prying eyes. The U.S. military, however, denies even having knowledge of the facility. "
Anand Gopal
" Agencies must know who they are accountable to. If the agencies know who they are accountable to but we cannot say who they are accountable to, then really it is a very sad situation that is bound to be misused. It is bound to affect human rights. "
Asma Jahangir
" All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. "
Richard Stallman
" Although each human rights victory energizes us to continue our work, there remains a deep sorrow for those prisoners still wrongfully languishing in jail. "
Nazanin Boniadi
" America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. "
Jimmy Carter
" America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out of them. "
John McCain
" And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first. "
Bjorn Ulvaeus
" 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
" Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council. "
Michael McCaul
" 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
" As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights. "
Rene Cassin
" As far back as Iran's aborted 'Green Revolution' in 2009, Obama's supplications to Iran's ruling theocracy have amounted to diplomatic shivs in the backs of Iran's youthful democratic insurrectionists, mash notes written directly to Khomeinist supremo Ali Khamenei and the scuttling of programs documenting the regime's human rights outrages. "
Terry Glavin
" At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights. "
Armstrong Williams
" 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
" Because of Iran's support for terrorism, disrespect for human rights, and nuclear proliferation, it has been under U.S. and international sanctions for decades - and companies have been fined billions for circumventing those sanctions. "
Mike Pompeo
" Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. "
Daryl Hannah
" Big global players like China need to do a better job of respecting human rights. "
Justin Trudeau
" Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. "
Stockwell Day
" Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America. "
Ryan Coogler
" Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. "
Ernestine Rose
" Canada has a stand on human rights in many places, just not when Donald Trump violates them in Latino neighbourhoods. "
Denise Dresser
" China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights. "
Hu Jintao
" China-led globalization in some ways worries me because they are not concerned about human rights, labor rights. They probably aren't even really concerned about competitive marketplaces. So in some ways, they're like Mr. Trump. "
Joseph Stiglitz
" Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not. "
Robert Mugabe
" Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. "
Bjorn Ulvaeus
" 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
" Democracy in Myanmar cannot be achieved with discrimination and gross violations of human rights. "
Winnie Byanyima
" During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner. "
Elliott Abrams
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