If human rights applied only in the UK, she and her family would have been deprived of any semblance of justice.
Nearly a year ago, Kerim Yildiz, a prominent advocate for Kurdish rights, applied for a business visa to visit the United States.
The Supreme Court later ruled that most but not all of the protections of the Bill of Rights applied to the states under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, one of the post-Civil War amendments.
It is frightening to think that we, a nation that has long believed that principle mattered and that human rights applied to all, would now be open to assuming that such values need not apply when we are frightened or at risk.
Cooper notes that the ambiguity of the article allowed landholding mulattoes to hope that these civil rights applied to them "without assuring them any benefit" (SFHR, 72).
John Locke, the father of natural law, believe that rights applied to everyone, except of course to women or those who didn't own property.
