Sentence examples for accepted human rights from inspiring English sources

The Gambia is also a member of the African Union, whose charter adopts universally accepted human rights, including the right to life and personal integrity, and freedom from cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.

Yet its neglect of the needs of its own workers with family responsibilities, including its failure to ensure paid sick and paid family leave, is counter to these widely accepted human rights norms.

Even if corporations are no longer subject to the threat of lawsuits under the Alien Tort Statute, they should ensure that their international operations, especially in regions with governance gaps, comport with accepted human rights principles.

In May 2011, he issued a detailed set of proposals to ensure that these land guidelines are consistent with internationally accepted human rights standards, including the right to food, which have concrete implications for land issues.

Amnesty International, a London-based human rights group, said the execution followed "a trial which ignored internationally accepted human rights standards". It called on Bahrain's leader, Sheik Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, to prevent further executions.

This provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for judgment.

Cardinal O'Brien said gay marriage was a "grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right".

Hence, safe drinking water is a basic need of human development, health and well-being and hence, an internationally accepted human right (WHO 2011).

In a newspaper article earlier this year, the cardinal wrote that the proposal for same-sex marriage represented a "grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right".

Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, said the plans were a "grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right".

A year ago the cardinal put on record his view that gay marriage was a "grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right".