Quotes About Human rights

Hesitating and hand-wringing when confronted by violence discourages the human-rights activists on the front lines and emboldens the enemy.

All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.

We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.

If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future.

The U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change - they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker.

Clearly, the response to terrorism and violent extremism must respect human rights and comply with international law. That is not just a question of justice but of effectiveness.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

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.

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

There cannot be any concessions on the matter of human rights or the criteria for visa liberalisation.

I have to say that deporting people and calling them 'bad hombres,' then kicking families out with visa violations, upsets me.

Oh, working man! Oh, starved, outraged, and robbed laborer, how long will you lend attentive ear to the authors of your misery?

The selfish scheme called "property rights" has superseded human rights and created four times more useless work than is required to produce and distribute all the comforts and luxuries of life.

But we can't make policies based on religion when religion means different things to different people. Which leaves science. The science of reproduction is what it is. Conception is conception. You can decide the ethical value that has for you, based on your own relationship with God…but the policies around basic human rights with regard to reproduction shouldn't be up for interpretation.

having someone with you when you die should not be a privilege but a right.

When a family is involved in a human rights movement, as in the Mexican- American family, there is little room for a woman's liberation movement alone

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It's very vague. What does that mean, 'outrages upon human dignity'?

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.