Sentence examples for rights principle from inspiring English sources

And that's why I say the most important human rights principle of all is equal treatment".

However, it is a well-recognised human rights principle that when a state completely fails to protect its people as the Nigerian government has, the world community has a moral obligation to step in.

The objective of the consultation was to identify where the liberal human rights principle of equality before the law and government is not being met for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex Australians.

DETROIT — With plans for new primaries in Florida and Michigan in limbo, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton challenged Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday to accept at least a new contest in Michigan, arguing that he should match his "words with action" because a civil rights principle was at stake.

The Campaign mobilized hundreds of Vermonters to stand up for the human rights principle of universality, and after days of constituents' phone calls, protests, and a large rally on May 1st, the exclusionary amendment was struck.

In an op-ed published in Roll Call on Monday, Menendez said the discovery last week of 139 graves at a prison camp run by human traffickers along the Thailand-Malaysia border should "strengthen our resolve to add this fundamental human rights principle to our trade policy".

"But they should not suggest we are breaking human rights principles because we are complying always with human rights principles.

In dealing with Turkey as it did, it has harmed some of its human rights principles.

"These recommendations [in the report] are my interpretation of basic human rights principles.

The human rights principles at stake extend to the use of the death penalty.

It is vital that the United States be seen as acting in accord with human rights principles.