Sentence examples for human rights declarations from inspiring English sources
"They may not have any rights under the Geneva Conventions as far as I'm concerned," said the senator, an Arizona Republican, "but they have rights under various human rights declarations.
Human rights declarations and treaties are intended to change existing norms, not just describe the existing moral consensus.
The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women addressed birth control and influenced human rights declarations which asserted women's rights to control their own bodies.
On Dec. 13, 2003, the New York Times also reported that McCain said, "They may not have any rights under the Geneva Conventions as far as I'm concerned, but they have rights under various human rights declarations.
The right to adequate food has been established in international human rights declarations and treaties for over 65 years [ 1, 2].
Amid diverse belief systems, convergence as well as cooperation is not only possible across patients, physicians, regulatory agencies, and industries as seen in the growing body of international law and human rights declarations with multinational support they are necessary.
Higgins, formerly a barrister in London specialising in employment, has already had success at the UN with a Universal Declaration for Planetary Rights, modelled on the human rights declaration.
Cambodia signed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Aseann) human rights declaration on Sunday, two days before the arrival of the US president, Barack Obama, on his tour of the region.
"Tourism is violating left, right and centre all manner of the articles contained in the UN human rights declaration - land rights, dignity, respect, the right to privacy, cultural exploitation," says Barnett.
On Thursday he will say: You can sign every human rights declaration in the world but if you stand by and watch people being slaughtered in their own country, when you could act then what are those signatures really worth?
While Mr. Cohen's suggestion that Barack Obama should reach out more toward Muslims is correct, I question his comparison of the human rights declaration with what is in the Koran.
