The phrase "applying human rights" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the implementation or enforcement of human rights principles in various situations, such as law, policy, or social practices.
Example: "The organization is focused on applying human rights standards to improve the living conditions of marginalized communities."
Alternatives: "enforcing human rights" or "implementing human rights".
Taking equality seriously: Applying human rights frameworks to priority setting in health.
The important emphasis on the principle of "universality" in applying human rights standards was signaled by several events.
Cameron has promised that "a modern British bill of rights" will "guide the judiciary and the government in applying human rights law when the lack of responsibility of some individuals threatens the rights of others".
"Why are we applying human rights law to a battlefield which is inherently violent, that it was not designed to apply to?" he told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme.
A group of companies that want to find pragmatic ways of applying human rights in global business have formed the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights BLIHRR), which now has 14 members.
Nonetheless, the trend toward applying human rights in the United States continued to quietly and gradually deepen until a series of events jolted the American psyche and quickly moved the issue of human rights to the fore.
It suggested that to require British forces to apply human rights principles to Iraqis would be to apply "culturally alien standards".
Similar clashes between group-based notions of justice and universally applied human rights are unavoidable in welfare states with increasingly diverse people.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Justice called on public bodies to review how they apply human rights law to avoid outcomes that Cameron said "fly in the face of common sense, offend our sense of right and wrong, and undermine responsibility".
And in Charette, I noted how allowing many administrative actors to apply human rights legislation fosters a general culture of respect for human rights in the administrative system: see para.
She has served as the Global Human Rights Program Officer at the Ford Foundation in New York and as Research Director at the International Council on Human Rights Policy in Geneva, Switzerland, a think tank focused on applied human rights research.
