Sentence examples for human rights projects from inspiring English sources

"The UK supports over 75 human rights projects in more than 40 countries and this year we are doubling the funding available for human rights projects to £10m – a true measure of the importance we attach to this agenda".

"In recognition of this, our embassy in Bogotá runs several human rights projects to help improve the land registry process, increase access to protection measures, and raise awareness of the UN guiding principles on business and human rights".

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which oversees the sanctions on Iran, said in a statement that it had cut the bureaucracy for obtaining exemptions in order to expedite the provision of health services, disaster relief, wildlife conservation and human rights projects in the country.

Given the State Department's bizarre defunding of several Iranian human rights projects, the White House might announce the award of far larger grants for the same purposes to several other worthy organizations working on these issues.

The science society's human rights project began 30 years ago, helping forensic teams sift mass graves in Argentina.

Thomas Keenan, a professor of comparative literature and the director of a nascent interdisciplinary human rights project that sponsored the talk, called it a "homecoming after his other homecoming".

Under her leadership, EDF has launched the Equally Ours human rights project, developed a research network, helped secure the 2010 Equality Act, and developed a range of tools for voluntary organisation including the newly launched equality and human rights performance framework.

A trial observation report by the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) states that, in an aggravated felony court in the province of Mardin, a prosecutor indicted 405 members of the Derik District Gendarmerie Command, 65 of whom were senior officers, for raping Şükran Esen.

But to the extent that students and researchers at universities and a few other lucky souls have access to computers, these are linked only to each other — that is, to a nationwide, closely-monitored Intranet — according to the OpenNet Initiative, a human rights project linking researchers from the University of Toronto, Harvard Law School and Cambridge and Oxford Universities in Britain.

I know it sounds crazy, but my cousin said that everything was part of a human rights project sponsored by the European Union and that he wasn't just a volunteer: he actually got paid for reading the works of Carl Gustav Jung to a gathering of deceased people, all wearing striped pajamas, at the Capablanca's Chess Club every Friday night.

Professor Sheldon Leader, director of the Essex University business and human rights project, added: "What Shell has said to the Netherlands' judiciary – and it will be important to see how far other major companies argue the same – is that they do have high standards but they do not give orders to subsidiaries.