Quotes About Human rights

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

Electing Sudan to the UN body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.

The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.

Why do we take a dollar? Why do we give a dollar to countries that have no rights for women? We have to think about that.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

I would like to see the Iraqi government guarantee social insurance for the Yazidi women who were enslaved and to recognise their status as prisoners of war.

Still trying to figure out the dynamics of rights and responsibilities as a woman? How about striking out the word Woman and making it Human.

Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring none.

A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!

At the State Department, where I oversaw our human rights diplomacy, I often confronted dictatorships like China about their censorship of the Internet, which they justified by claiming they were merely filtering out lies. Our government cannot and should not take that path.

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.

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

Political Liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every [human], has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other [human] the free exercise of the same rights.

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal