Sentence examples for violations in countries from inspiring English sources

Rolnik has spent much of her five-year tenure as the UN's unpaid special rapporteur on adequate housing looking at human rights violations in countries including Rwanda and Kazakhstan.

"It was never clear what human rights safeguards or training were ever going to be built into this murky deal - for example would UK contractors have been actively trying to challenge and prevent human rights violations in countries with notoriously abusive justice systems, not least in Saudi Arabia?

Deciding how best to deploy some of our overseas aid in programmes in order to change the climate of opinion in Uganda and elsewhere would be a positive and practical response to a terrible cruelty.Stephen Wall Former foreign-policy adviser to John Major and Tony Blair London* SIR – The World Bank cannot turn a blind eye to human-rights violations in countries that criminalise homosexuality.

A report from the influential British think tank the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has concluded that current U.K. and European policies on biofuel use are encouraging unethical practices, including harm to the environment, threats to food security, and human rights violations in countries where the fuels are grown.

Scrutiny of serious human rights violations in countries like Iran, Cuba, Sri Lanka, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo were discontinued, weakened, or avoided altogether.

Late last year, the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights issued a report on Women and the Right to Adequate Housing, a comprehensive look at the housing rights of women set out in human rights instruments and treaties -- and their implementation, or violation, in countries around the world.

"All of us are collectively hoping that strong international support will put pressure on our political leaders in the US in much the same way that the international human rights community is called to put pressure on other governments when they are violating or not doing enough to protect against human rights violations in those countries".

The case was the first in Britain under laws covering human rights violations in other countries.

Much of the public dialogue in America has concentrated — not unreasonably — on the Human Rights Council's preoccupation with Israel while it has disregarded serious rights violations in other countries.

LAURA SECOR: So do you believe that if you heard more aggressive criticism of human-rights violations in other countries in your region, that you would find it more acceptable to receive criticism of human-rights violations in Iran?

And regardless of what human-rights groups may say, they add, Israel's perceived shortcomings pale in comparison with violations in Arab countries that are hardly bastions of democracy and liberty.