Sentence examples for intense human rights from inspiring English sources

For Ethiopia became the biggest single recipient of our aid despite the intense human rights concerns, handed £1.3bn from hard-pressed taxpayers over the course of the coalition.

"Natasha was at the forefront of some of the most intense human rights investigations in Chechnya," said Allison Gill, director of Human Rights Watch in Russia.

The anti-gay atmosphere in Honduras is so intense, human rights groups say, that more than 20 gay and transgender people have been killed there in the past five years.

He said in the hour-long interview that he was a man "committed to the respect and intense promotion of human rights".

The procedures have come under intense criticism from human rights groups on the grounds that the defendants are not entitled to normal rights of legal representation, and the hearings are closed to public scrutiny.

In invoking Martin Luther King Jr. and the American civil rights movement, Mr. Obama moved toward adorning the protesters on the streets of Tehran with the mantle of America's most intense movement for human rights and justice.

The judge's decision two weeks ago to conduct the espionage trial behind closed doors had drawn intense criticism from human rights groups and diplomats, who argued that only an open proceeding could assure that the defendants were not bullied or persecuted.

Mr. Bush has long sought an effective way to press Sudan to end the violence in Darfur, and he has been under intense pressure from human rights advocates to do more.

Such a statement from an attorney general would override existing Justice Department legal opinions and create intense pressure from human rights groups to open a criminal investigation of interrogation practices, Mr. Silliman said.

But distrust between the two negotiating teams and intense pressure from human rights advocates who sought, unrealistically, to impose their ideal set of legal standards on the process, propelled the United Nations to walk out.

Mr. Gao's case has drawn intense scrutiny from human rights advocates because he said he was tortured when he was detained in 2007, and again for 14 months that ended in March 2010.