Sentence examples for basic principles of human rights from inspiring English sources
We're going to call nations to account when they violate basic principles of human rights".
The Conservative party's manifesto insisted the new British bill of rights would "remain faithful to the basic principles of human rights, which we signed up to in the original European Convention on Human Rights".
By making it clear that the law is there to protect the victims, and not just those who are suspected of terrorism, the international community can start to restore those basic principles of human rights law that have taken such a battering," he said.
Gove is making it clear that he is bound by the Tory manifesto which says the party will scrap the HRA and replace it with the bill of rights, which will "remain faithful to the basic principles of human rights which we signed up to in the original European convention on human rights".
"They have elevated politics over the most basic principles of human rights".
The notion that a torture survivor's memories can be classified, Connell wrote, "contravenes the most basic principles of human rights".
Re "The Justice Americans Demand" (Op-Ed, Feb. 4), by David Frum, on popular support for the death penalty: The success of American institutions does not derive from adherence to "the popular will"; rather, it derives from an unflinching devotion to basic principles of human decency and human rights, including the right to life.
In the 1999 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the then secretary general of the United Nations proposed the Global Compact, which appealed to companies to obey ten basic principles on human rights, labor standards, environmental protection and anti-corruption.
"It is embarrassing that our federal government has such an appalling knowledge and recognition of basic international principles of human rights".
