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Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations. -- Curt Weldon
In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks. -- Gijs de Vries
Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there. -- Jennifer Armintrout
In fairness, Latin America's elected civilian leaders have made progress in some areas. They have brought their countries back to international respectability, curbed flagrant human rights violations, and sought to build democratic political institutions. -- Stephen Kinzer
Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts. -- Mary Robinson
In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America. -- Noam Chomsky
I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance. -- Yoweri Museveni
In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive aspects of Jim Crow. It had to yield to the insistent cries on the ground here in this country. -- Gerald Horne
The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are siding over and over again with proven sexual abusers of children and batterers of women. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't done so much investigating. -- Lundy Bancroft
The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation... -- Edward S. Herman
Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely. -- Gene Sharp
The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by Government, Rudolph Rummel estimates some 170 million government-caused deaths in the twentieth century. The historical evidence appears to indicate that, rather than protecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of their citizens, governments must be considered the greatest threat to human security. -- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. -- Shirin Ebadi
Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever. -- Anna Lindh
Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities. -- Franjo Tudjman
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. -- Pope Francis
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. -- Michelle Bachelet
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans. -- Leopoldo Lopez
The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of American politicians. -- Woody Harrelson
At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity. -- William Hague
We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population. -- Jan Egeland
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. -- Carlos Fuentes
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made. -- Pope Benedict XVI
We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability. -- Warren Christopher
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. -- Ai Weiwei
The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights, and that women and children deserve better, and that the demands of justice, generosity, and compassion require that the right to life be guaranteed to everyone. -- Chris Smith
The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope!We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion! -- Widad Akrawi

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