Sentence examples for asserting human rights from inspiring English sources

The suit was brought under the Alien Tort Claims Act, an arcane United States law that has been increasingly used for lawsuits asserting human rights violations occurring overseas.

Although innocent lives inevitably are lost in asserting human rights, it is encouraging that so many professionals were willing to put their lives and careers on the line.

The current suit was brought under the Alien Tort Claims Act, an arcane law written in 1789 to fight piracy, which is increasingly being used for lawsuits asserting human rights violations that occurred overseas.

For instance, if, as is increasingly asserted, human rights qualify private power, precisely when and how do they do so?

Countries that assert human rights and the rule of law as the basis of their systems of government and their actions on the international stage cannot turn a blind eye to this practice.

WHY: We agree with HuffPost Arts&Culture blogger G. Roger Denson, who believes "the impact of [Neshat's] work far transcends the realms of art in reflecting the most vital and far-reaching struggle to assert human rights".

Last year, Mutharika expelled Britain's high commissioner after the envoy was quoted in a local newspaper as expressing concern that the president was increasingly intolerant of criticism and asserting that human rights were under attack.

At the same time, the creators and owners of intellectual property are asserting a human rights justification for the expansion of legal protections.

But he should assert that human rights are universal.

"The point is to scare off the next community that might try to assert its human rights".

Some persons are beginning to assert individual human rights in practice... even insinuating themselves into corridors of international diplomacy.... Modern individualists may still choose to participate in traditional tribal rituals, play the single-minded patriot, embrace a parent's religion or dance to kinfolk music.