Sentence examples for influential human rights from inspiring English sources

Samar Badawi is the ex-wife of influential human rights lawyer Waleed Abulkhair, and according to activists has been accused of running his Twitter account after he was jailed in 2014.

In April 2012, parliament's influential human rights committee, which draws members from both the Lords and Commons, condemned the government's justice and security green paper proposals for failing to make the case for extending CMPs into civil proceedings or inquests.

In April the UN "elected" Iran (by "acclamation," no open vote) to its Commission on the Status of Women, giving a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a country where, by law, the value of a woman is half that of a man, a woman found guilty of adultery is punished by stoning and lashings are required for women judged "immodest".

She also helped set up Memorial, an influential human-rights outfit focusing on the Caucasus.

He was similarly influential with human rights, a foreign policy that initially earned him considerable criticism from Republicans, though in later decades many of them embraced his rhetoric.

Human Rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina, a board member of the Memorial Society, an influential Russian human rights group, said Putin would keep discrimination in check during the Olympic Games but warned that would not resolve the problem.

Furthermore, the archbishop is just about to compose his famous work "The Adventures of Telemachus" (an influential defense of human rights).

XXXXXXXXXXXXis an influential blogger and human rights activist, and we want to do everything we can to assist him in exposing police abuse.

Mario Joseph is Haiti's most influential and respected human rights attorney.

Ayo Obe, 60, is a pivotal figure in some of Nigeria's most influential social, legal and human rights movements.

Soon, in a lawsuit brought by Privacy International, the ACLU and eight other organizations, the influential European court of human rights will also weigh in on surveillance programs revealed by Snowden, and the result could have implications far beyond Europe.