Emilio Alvarez, General Secretary of The Inter-American Human Rights CoMexicann, is a Mexican with a formidable background in human rights advocacy.
Since then, Israel, through its military and support from Western legislatures like the Bundestag, has become one of the world's most formidable powers with a human rights record that is absolutely horrendous.
Immediately following his election as an interim president of his country, Moncef Marzouki, who was known to the Arab street as a tough defender of liberties and human rights and a formidable foe of the Ben Ali regime, stood to offer a balanced and clear vision for the future of Tunisia.
This is done so the State of Israel, "one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, [can] cast itself as a victim state", in order to garner "immunity to criticism".
The Vatican commission set itself a formidable task when it moved beyond theology and a concern for human rights to try to appraise the church's actions in World War II.
The hypocrisies surrounding the UK's human rights crusade, both perceived and real, present a formidable barrier to its work.
In the process, Mandela became a formidable moral force and an exemplary teacher in the fight for human rights and racial equality throughout the world.
The Ogoni had assembled a formidable case and were being represented by some of the most best human rights lawyers in the world.
The human rights investigators, led by Paulo Pinheiro, said they had gathered "a formidable and extraordinary body of evidence" as Syrian government forces conduct daily air strikes and shelling in indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas.
Together, the moral and ethical influence of the worlds religions, the resources of the worlds governments, the influence of UN agencies in creating international standards of human rights, and the people power of civil society can form a formidable alliance for implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child and helping to build a world that is truly fit for every child.
