He has been criticized as well for failing to make human rights a centerpiece of his recent meetings with Colonel Qaddafi.
A3 Rights Groups Assail China Human rights groups accused China of failing to improve its record on civil liberties despite official promises to make human rights a centerpiece of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Former US president Jimmy Carter, who made human rights a centerpiece of US foreign policy, has started an online petition urging the group not to endorse commercial sexual exploitation as a right.
BEIJING, Aug. 7 — Human rights groups on Tuesday accused China of failing to improve its record on civil liberties, and of harassing lawyers, dissidents and journalists, despite official promises to make human rights a centerpiece of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
It is therefore fitting that Hillary Rodham Clinton, the leading contender for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 2016, made voting rights the centerpiece of a speech at a major campaign stop in Houston today.
B. J. Upton is slumping; Jason Heyward, the team's centerpiece right fielder, is on the disabled list after an appendectomy; and others have been injured or unproductive.
Human Rights Watch, in a report published Tuesday, calls for Mr. Obama to make human rights a forceful centerpiece of his visit to Cambodia, the first ever by a sitting American president.
They won't know much at all about the Bill of Rights -- the centerpiece of our democracy.
But on the left and the right, Mr. Smith said, "the centerpiece is always France".
In addition, she assembled copies of the recipes for every dish she served, rolled them into a scroll and tied it with a copper-colored ribbon, which -- that's right -- matched the centerpiece.
