In its way Las Casas' work marked the beginning of the Franciscans' and Dominicans' campaign for native human rights, undertaken because, as children of God, indigenous peoples were also expected to learn about Christ.
In moral terms, Trump is telling MBS that he can flout human rights, undertake dangerous regional adventurism, repress dissent and murder those who displease him with impunity.
The company is also a signatory to the UN Global Compact, which means it has committed to, among other things, "support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights" and "undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility".
A new guide out today details a range of activism that human rights defenders undertake from inside prison - from writing media articles to advocating for fellow inmates to smuggling out information about abuses in detention.
Fundamentally a humanitarian, he worked not only for news organisations and magazines, but for human rights organisations, and undertook extensive projects for the US-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch.
It's not always possible for human rights defenders to undertake activism from inside prison, but even in the most oppressive regimes some resourceful activists have managed to keep working even when they've been jailed. .
The pertinent question here is why the US, which backed the Sri Lankan government on its war efforts, now criticizes Sri Lanka on alleged human rights violations and undertakes a relatively robust campaign against its one-time ally.
This paradigm is proved true by the present human rights campaign the United States is undertaking against Sri Lanka in the United Nations Human Rights Council.
On the other hand, after an earlier report by Amnesty on the equally controversial Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, a consortium led by BP agreed to add a "human-rights undertaking" to its contracts with the governments of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.
Facebook has since undertaken a human rights impact assessment in Myanmar, and it also took down coordinated inauthentic accounts in the country.
As can be seen on quite a widespread basis, NSAGs with effective control over an area of territory sometimes voluntarily undertake some human rights obligations.
