Sentence examples for human rights statement from inspiring English sources

The censors eventually caught on to the joke, but not before Wen had turned a bit of microblog mischief into a human rights statement.

Miller, noting the development of Citi's human rights statement, said that the statement, in turn, set a standard for the behavior of its "employees, suppliers, clients and host countries".

The company went on to state the board of directors has approved a new human rights statement and a series of human rights conduct business principles in June 2015.

"We are the first organising committee to put out a human rights statement.," he points out.

(Editing ButGreg MCarlos.

c The right to health (technically, the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health) is the human rights statement most central to GHD, and every country is now party to at least one international instrument that includes health-related rights [ 72].

Human rights statements are therefore prescriptions: people are not free and equal but they ought to become so.

This is why the recent visit to Iran by the EU's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, who visited a number of leading women rights' activists, was more effective than Canada's many human rights statements.

In his speeches, he has been an eloquent defender of inclusiveness and human rights — statements that added to his political draw among Turks who might otherwise have been put off by his Islamist past.

I was caught vandalizing a school wall by writing apolitical human rights statements on school walls and was given the choice to either be submitted to police or to switch school.

Citi has played a leading role in the development of the Equator Principles, becoming the first US bank to come up with environmental and social standards back in 2003, and one of the first US banks to issue a public human-rights statement in 2007.