Sentence examples for human rights applied from inspiring English sources

If human rights applied only in the UK, she and her family would have been deprived of any semblance of justice.

It is frightening to think that we, a nation that has long believed that principle mattered and that human rights applied to all, would now be open to assuming that such values need not apply when we are frightened or at risk.

Investments in health, education and economic policies must then be underpinned by good governance, the exercise of public authority which entails adherence to the rule of law and enhancement of human rights applied universally.

"Technically speaking human rights apply to people.

They argue that universal human rights apply everywhere, in the poorest, most remote village, and those rights outweigh cultural norms benefiting only men in the society.

The irony is lost on them, too: It does not occur to them that human rights apply as much to the guilty as to the innocent; that even the worst perpetrator deserves due process.

If we can argue, as the UN Human Rights Council and others have done, that human rights apply in the same way online as they do offline, shouldn't this also apply to the tools available to our security agencies to fight crime and terrorism?JOHN BILLOW Brussels.

"I call on all countries and stakeholders to recognize that human rights apply to all people everywhere, including people with albinism," Ki-moon announced on the occasion. .

Drawing on Renaissance humanism and the emerging scientific revolution, Enlightenment thinkers rejected royalism, feudalism, and superstition, urging an egalitarian approach and expanding human rights, applying the reason of science to a society to be marked by a separation of church and state.

Before human rights apply, already women rights take charge.

Human rights apply to all age groups; children have the same general human rights as adults.