Sentence examples for assertion of human rights from inspiring English sources
The assertion of human rights is important, but alone they make for a pretty thin creed.
Statement of human rights.
a. Statement of human rights.
In the 28 years since it was written, that Jerry Herman song has widened from an assertion of gay pride to become something like a pop declaration of human rights.
He begins with the highly debatable assertion that for much of their history North and South Korea were "nearly indistinguishable in terms of human rights abuses and Stalinist-style development policies".
The second was that Russian troops must "meet the highest standards of human rights that one would expect from a civilised country".His first assertion may be formally correct, in the sense that some of the Chechens fighting to secede from Russia have used terrorist methods although the identity of the perpetrators of the worst acts of terror against Russian civilians remains a mystery.
The assertion of such a status reflects the intricate dialogue between the supreme court in London and the European court of human rights in Strasbourg over who should have final authority in certain categories of cases.
The viewpoint underlying this assertion that the scope of human rights in any given society should be determined fundamentally by local, national, or regional customs and traditions may seem problematic, especially when one considers that the idea of human rights and many of its precepts are found in all the great philosophical and religious traditions.
