Sentence examples for rights resolution from inspiring English sources

Still, Peter Romero, the acting assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, called Mr. Montesinos last year to lobby for Peruvian help on a United Nations human rights resolution in Geneva condemning Cuba.

These include raising the VAT threshold for small and microbusinesses; eliminating the trade with the EU in conflict minerals that finance armed groups, and securing a human rights resolution on the persecuted Guarani-Kaiowá people of Brazil.

The Mexican foreign minister, Jorge G. Castañeda, assured his Cuban counterpart that Mexico would not sponsor a new human rights resolution against Cuba in the United Nations, where Mexico occupies a temporary seat on the Security Council.

As the State Department mapped its strategy on the rights resolution, the administration was also planning to nominate a new ambassador to Beijing, Clark T. Randt, a Hong Kong-based businessman, officials said.

The executive testified that he himself relayed a message to the Chinese, taking credit for derailing a human rights resolution in Congress; the executive did not say that Mr. Adelson relayed the message.

Last week, leaders of seven human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, wrote to General Powell and Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, urging them to press ahead with the human rights resolution.

Some will say that United Nations human rights resolutions are meaningless because there is no way to enforce them.

Initially, Fascism's program retained many socialistic elements: land reform, workers' rights, resolutions to abolish the monarchy and limit the influence of the Catholic Church.

After past rights resolutions in Geneva, those people say, Beijing has generally refused to discuss reforms because it has feared looking as though it was caving in to outside pressure.

There are dozens of references to "violence against women" — defined to include sexual violence — in United Nations human rights resolutions, treaties and agreements, but most don't mention sexual violence against men.

Bingham opposed the outspokenly proslavery wing of Missouri politics led by Claiborne Fox Jackson; as a member of the Missouri legislature, he countered Jackson's pro-slavery, states' rights resolutions and put forward his own, more measured alternatives, allowing for federal power to regulate slavery.