Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.
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The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.
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