Sentence examples for rights proclaimed from inspiring English sources

It could undermine the principle of equal rights proclaimed in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

What can be read in Lincoln's features — of his leadership of the Union, his milestone emancipation of slaves, his rededication of American ideals based on the inalienable rights proclaimed by the Declaration of Independence?

Almost no one today defends what came to be called the Natural Law tradition, yet it alone supports the "self-evident truths" proclaimed in the American Declaration of Independence, or the affirmation in the French Declaration of the Rights of Man that men are born free, or the rights proclaimed in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and those in the European Convention on Human Rights.

Although many people think that liberal feminism is passe and that the ethical issues that preoccupied it have been resolved, truth be told as of 2009, the Bill of (Women's) Rights proclaimed by NOW in 1967 in the United States, for example, has yet to be fully implemented.

How can the European Union ignore the principles of universality, indivisibility and interdependence of human rights proclaimed in 1993 by the Vienna Declaration?

The UNICEF report concludes: "It may have taken almost 50 years for the education rights proclaimed in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights to be fully accepted.

She has also courted controversy by speaking out against LGBT rights, proclaiming in 1998 that "God hates homosexuality" and comparing gay marriage to genocide in a 2010 speech.

Targets are, after the rights themselves, the most important components of the monitoring process, and the most challenging to develop as they involve a delicate balance: targets must be both forward-looking and progressive, they must move us in the direction that the rights proclaim and the goals point us to.

It is a movie with right on its side, and never was that right proclaimed more shrilly or more smugly, or with a more obtuse insistence on privileging soft-focus personal drama over political relevance.

"Education is a human right, proclaimed by global agreements ranging from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the Convention on the Rights of the Child".

Education is a human right, proclaimed by global agreements ranging from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the Convention on the Rights of the Child Mr. President, these and other investments in children are not short-term propositions.