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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage.

When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.

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.