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WILLIAM SCHULZ Many of the countries highlighted in this report have absolutely abysmal records of torture and othe...
DR. WILLIAM F. SCHULZ When the U.S. and other Western powers commit such a gross violation of human rights, it further wea...
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SAUDI ARABIA This report by the U.S. government provides a thorough review of today's human rights practices arou...
DR. WILLIAM F. SCHULZ I can't see how the U.S. can possibly certify Colombia on human rights grounds or any other grounds.
CARLOS SALINAS The definition of security must be broadened to encompass the security of people, as well as states....
IRENE KHAN Canada will continue to encourage the Afghan government to adhere to its human rights obligations.
PAMELA GREENWELL There's a human rights component. It involves national security, civil rights, the future of our eco...
PAUL ORTIZ In the name of national security, the Bush administration has eroded the rule of law and the system ...
ANN BEESON The possibility of preventative detention raises serious concern that such detention may be tantamou...
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LI XIAOJUN![]()
At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate ...
WILLIAM HAGUE We have documented the use of torture and mistreatment, widespread throughout the world. We have doc...
WILLIAM SCHULZ We do not agree that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of the...
GRAHAM WATSON The Chinese government consistently respects the universal principles of the international community...
ZHU BANGZAO With human rights under grave threat each and every day, the government should ensure the continued ...
KAVITA MENON The unwarranted accusations by the U.S. against China under the pretext of so-called human rights qu...
ZHANG QIYUE![]()
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ALLYSON SCHWARTZ![]()
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN![]()
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN![]()
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on internatio...
FEDERICA MOGHERINI![]()
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights ...
JIMMY CARTER China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to mat...
LOUISE ARBOUR![]()
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governme...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF![]()
The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
LIU XIAOBO As far as the treatment of prisoners is concerned ... it is clear that all 25 member states having s...
FRISO ABBING As far as the treatment of prisoners is concerned ... it is clear that all 25 member states having s...
FRISO ROSCAM ABBING It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian ...
JOICHI ITO![]()
The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.
RICKY MARTIN Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY The scale of China's human rights violations is staggering. The government of China regularly denies...
WILLIAM SCHULZ![]()
It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish peo...
JUDITH BUTLER Because of Iran's support for terrorism, disrespect for human rights, and nuclear proliferation,...
MIKE POMPEO A waiver speaks to the lack of political will on the part of the U.S. with regard to human rights.
CARLOS SALINAS![]()
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We spoke about the importance of raising international consciousness on the issue of human rights in...
JAY LEFKOWITZ Mexico has taken a very strong and positive stand on human rights issues internationally but there i...
IRENE KHAN George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rig...
BIANCA JAGGER There is compelling evidence suggesting that U.S. personnel have committed acts against detainees am...
BRAD ADAMS It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that...
AUNG SUU![]()
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI The government is really mixed up about this, to detain all the human rights activists during the vi...
HOU WENZHUO![]()
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
HILLARY CLINTON![]()
I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim ...
RON JOHNSON We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations ...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER Violence is not a respecter of persons and, just like everyone has human rights, every human can hav...
DERICK VIRGIL![]()
The Chinese government always has attached a great importance to human rights,
JIANG ZEMIN It now appears that the last thing many human rights groups really wanted was a thoroughly reformed ...
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PAULINE HANSON The moral authority of the United States depends on its working effectively with other countries to ...
KENNETH ROTH![]()
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
SHIRIN EBADI Our recent history should have made one thing clear. Women's rights are human rights. Any foreign po...
JACK HOLLAND Democratic structures and the rule of law have on the whole been strengthened. Protection of human r...
GUENTER VERHEUGEN If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
JOICHI ITO We do not agree ... that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of...
GRAHAM WATSON![]()
Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the governmen...
RICHARD PERLE We have to recognize that there are limits on how we can influence the policy not just of China but ...
JIM SASSER![]()
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades,...
PAUL FARMER 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S...
MATT TAIBBI The United States expects a lot of its partners and allies, including joint patrolling, significant ...
JOHN MCCAIN![]()
The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
PAUL FARMER The focus should be more on those who are violating human rights and denying people their human righ...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN![]()
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international ...
ANNA LINDH![]()
Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts and not absolute and general,
JIANG ZEMIN America cannot hold itself as a moral beacon to the world if it violates the rule of law by engaging...
JAMIL DAKWAR![]()
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail
ABRAHAM LINCOLN For far too many years Canada has been timid and reluctant to put human rights squarely on the table...
ALEX NEVE It is a horrible violation of human rights and the law. They do not consider us to be people.
ALEKSANDR MILINKEVICH Not only has the Iraqi government failed to provide minimal protection for its citizens, it has acti...
DR. WILLIAM F. SCHULZ Many of these activists are defending human rights. The authorities must ensure that they are able t...
MARK ALLISON![]()
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repe...
JOHN MARSHALL The issue of human rights is a national security issue for us and while we have lots of issues to ad...
JAY LEFKOWITZ![]()
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like chara...
JANE GOODALL Economic, social and cultural rights are often overlooked when we are seeing rights through a politi...
JOSEPH SCHECHLA![]()
A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority ...
RUDOLF STEINER I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., a...
YAIR LAPID![]()
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and ...
WILLIAM HAGUE![]()
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at lea...
ALFRED MARSHALL The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
YAIR LAPID What's particularly interesting is that, while some of the new human rights courses focus narrowly o...
KATE ALLEN Human rights are indivisible. Freedom and security are not alternatives, they go hand-in-hand ... Mu...
GRAHAM WATSON![]()
It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milo...
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY We can have a dialogue on equal basis on all the questions, all the issues -- including human rights...
AMERICAN STUDIES The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights sit...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER![]()
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adherin...
HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA This human rights violation is very unique. It does not happen in any other country, only in China,
HARRY WU Iran's defiance of the international ban on executing child offenders is a growing concern and calls...
KATE ALLEN![]()
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
RICHARD STALLMAN The State Department's memo is full of misleading and irrelevant arguments. It fails to make the cas...
KAREN ORENSTEIN![]()
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To ki...
LIU XIAOBO![]()
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral a...
JONATHAN SACKS It is both wrong and short-sighted to believe that we can better protect our national security inter...
TODD YOUNG![]()
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER
JAMIL DAKWAR Amnesty International calls today on foreign governments to uphold their obligations under internati...
WILLIAM SCHULZ Many of the countries highlighted in this report have absolutely abysmal records of torture and othe...
DR. WILLIAM F. SCHULZ When the U.S. and other Western powers commit such a gross violation of human rights, it further wea...
AFRASIAB KHATTAK [In Saudi Arabia, the report noted the government's] human rights record remained poor, ... views it...
SAUDI ARABIA This report by the U.S. government provides a thorough review of today's human rights practices arou...
DR. WILLIAM F. SCHULZ I can't see how the U.S. can possibly certify Colombia on human rights grounds or any other grounds.
CARLOS SALINAS The definition of security must be broadened to encompass the security of people, as well as states....
IRENE KHAN Canada will continue to encourage the Afghan government to adhere to its human rights obligations.
PAMELA GREENWELL There's a human rights component. It involves national security, civil rights, the future of our eco...
PAUL ORTIZ In the name of national security, the Bush administration has eroded the rule of law and the system ...
ANN BEESON The possibility of preventative detention raises serious concern that such detention may be tantamou...
HINA JILANI
If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, y... HILLARY CLINTON There has been great improvement in China's human rights situation, but the U.S. report did not reco...
LI XIAOJUN
At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate ... WILLIAM HAGUE We have documented the use of torture and mistreatment, widespread throughout the world. We have doc...
WILLIAM SCHULZ We do not agree that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of the...
GRAHAM WATSON The Chinese government consistently respects the universal principles of the international community...
ZHU BANGZAO With human rights under grave threat each and every day, the government should ensure the continued ...
KAVITA MENON The unwarranted accusations by the U.S. against China under the pretext of so-called human rights qu...
ZHANG QIYUE
Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and ... ALLYSON SCHWARTZ
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on internatio...
FEDERICA MOGHERINI
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights ... JIMMY CARTER China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to mat...
LOUISE ARBOUR
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governme... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights. LIU XIAOBO As far as the treatment of prisoners is concerned ... it is clear that all 25 member states having s...
FRISO ABBING As far as the treatment of prisoners is concerned ... it is clear that all 25 member states having s...
FRISO ROSCAM ABBING It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian ...
JOICHI ITO
The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. RICKY MARTIN Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY The scale of China's human rights violations is staggering. The government of China regularly denies...
WILLIAM SCHULZ
It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish peo... JUDITH BUTLER Because of Iran's support for terrorism, disrespect for human rights, and nuclear proliferation,...
MIKE POMPEO A waiver speaks to the lack of political will on the part of the U.S. with regard to human rights.
CARLOS SALINAS
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We spoke about the importance of raising international consciousness on the issue of human rights in...
JAY LEFKOWITZ Mexico has taken a very strong and positive stand on human rights issues internationally but there i...
IRENE KHAN George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rig...
BIANCA JAGGER There is compelling evidence suggesting that U.S. personnel have committed acts against detainees am...
BRAD ADAMS It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that...
AUNG SUU
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that... AUNG SAN SUU KYI The government is really mixed up about this, to detain all the human rights activists during the vi...
HOU WENZHUO
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. HILLARY CLINTON
I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim ... RON JOHNSON We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations ...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER Violence is not a respecter of persons and, just like everyone has human rights, every human can hav...
DERICK VIRGIL
The Chinese government always has attached a great importance to human rights, JIANG ZEMIN It now appears that the last thing many human rights groups really wanted was a thoroughly reformed ...
NILE GARDINER
This is breaking my heart. I love this country with a passion, but since the Tampa and 9/11 we've go... PAULINE HANSON The moral authority of the United States depends on its working effectively with other countries to ...
KENNETH ROTH
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. SHIRIN EBADI Our recent history should have made one thing clear. Women's rights are human rights. Any foreign po...
JACK HOLLAND Democratic structures and the rule of law have on the whole been strengthened. Protection of human r...
GUENTER VERHEUGEN If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
JOICHI ITO We do not agree ... that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of...
GRAHAM WATSON
Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the governmen... RICHARD PERLE We have to recognize that there are limits on how we can influence the policy not just of China but ...
JIM SASSER
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades,... PAUL FARMER 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S...
MATT TAIBBI The United States expects a lot of its partners and allies, including joint patrolling, significant ...
JOHN MCCAIN
The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically. PAUL FARMER The focus should be more on those who are violating human rights and denying people their human righ...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international ... ANNA LINDH
Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts and not absolute and general, JIANG ZEMIN America cannot hold itself as a moral beacon to the world if it violates the rule of law by engaging...
JAMIL DAKWAR
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail ABRAHAM LINCOLN For far too many years Canada has been timid and reluctant to put human rights squarely on the table...
ALEX NEVE It is a horrible violation of human rights and the law. They do not consider us to be people.
ALEKSANDR MILINKEVICH Not only has the Iraqi government failed to provide minimal protection for its citizens, it has acti...
DR. WILLIAM F. SCHULZ Many of these activists are defending human rights. The authorities must ensure that they are able t...
MARK ALLISON
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repe... JOHN MARSHALL The issue of human rights is a national security issue for us and while we have lots of issues to ad...
JAY LEFKOWITZ
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like chara... JANE GOODALL Economic, social and cultural rights are often overlooked when we are seeing rights through a politi...
JOSEPH SCHECHLA
A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority ... RUDOLF STEINER I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., a...
YAIR LAPID
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and ... WILLIAM HAGUE
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at lea... ALFRED MARSHALL The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
YAIR LAPID What's particularly interesting is that, while some of the new human rights courses focus narrowly o...
KATE ALLEN Human rights are indivisible. Freedom and security are not alternatives, they go hand-in-hand ... Mu...
GRAHAM WATSON
It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milo... VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY We can have a dialogue on equal basis on all the questions, all the issues -- including human rights...
AMERICAN STUDIES The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights sit...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adherin... HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA This human rights violation is very unique. It does not happen in any other country, only in China,
HARRY WU Iran's defiance of the international ban on executing child offenders is a growing concern and calls...
KATE ALLEN
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. RICHARD STALLMAN The State Department's memo is full of misleading and irrelevant arguments. It fails to make the cas...
KAREN ORENSTEIN
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To ki... LIU XIAOBO
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral a... JONATHAN SACKS It is both wrong and short-sighted to believe that we can better protect our national security inter...
TODD YOUNG
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America. JIMMY CARTER
We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundr... 
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