There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are… — Emma Sulkowicz Copy Share Image
More than 180 countries around the world have ratified CEDAW, some with reservations. While the United States signed the treaty in 1981,… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
We seek in Central America not peace alone, not peace to be followed someday by political progress, but peace and democracy, together,… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
“MR. CORPORATION It happened in Washington in 1886. Gargantuan companies won the same legal rights as regular home-grown citizens. The Supreme Court… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market"… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Malaysia, then, offers an example of what happens when socalled moderate Islamists are appeased by the liberal elite. They provide cover for… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
It remains the task of governments to implement the fundamental human rights standards which should influence all aspects of globalisation, including even… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America,… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The Pirate Party started in Sweden in 2006, and it only had one agenda: to change draconian copyright laws. But it's changed… — Birgitta Jonsdottir Copy Share Image
Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Why did it take so long for these women's ruined lives to become a human rights issue? Perhaps the answer is that… — S.J. Friedman Copy Share Image
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them?… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Working in the Middle East, daily I face the questions, disbelief, and accusations about how Americans could violate the human rights which… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“...and I am left feeling that no matter how much the drip-drip-drip of hostility toward us is perpetuated by the liberal press,… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And… — Haile Selassie I Copy Share Image
To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
In opposing we always talk about freedom in the Western world, Muslims always talk about justice. Very often we mean the same… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
