Community Quote by Charles Kennedy

Abuse of human rights and international law demand resolution - whoever is responsible.

— Ed Davey

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made…

— Boris Yeltsin

The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries…

— Kofi Annan

We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many…

— Mary Robinson

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states.…

— Michael Ignatieff

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

— Robert Mugabe

“Whether we are willing to acknowledge it or not, the Western conception of human rights is really about the practices of other states--but never…

— Mark Gibney

In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.

— Noam Chomsky

What I'm trying to bring attention to is that human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first…

— Nikki Haley

Where there are breaches of human rights, you need to speak out about it, no matter where it is.

— Emily Thornberry

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are…

— Nikki Haley

Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

— Arundhati Roy