It is both wrong and short-sighted to believe that we can better protect our national security interests by ignoring or sidelining human rights.

The issue of human rights is a national security issue for us and while we have lots of issues to address with North Korea and we have lots of issues to address with China, the prism through which we evaluate their conduct is very much a human rights prism.

U.S. national security interests are best served when the United Nations effectively fulfills this core purpose.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

Chevron used the Nigerian military as their security force and that resulted in gross human rights violations.

All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.