"Our fight against human trafficking is one of the great human rights causes of our time and the United States will continue to lead it, " the President said.
Our fight against human trafficking is one of the great human rights causes of our time and the United States will continue to lead it, in partnership with you.
The full and effective implementation of United Nations activities to promote and protect human rights must reflect the high importance accorded to human rights by the Charter of the United Nations and the demands of the United Nations human rights activities, as mandated by Member States.
Our fight against human trafficking is one of the great human rights causes of our time, and the United States will continue to lead it -- in partnership with you.
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In the same letter the human rights activist and Nobel Laureate accused the United States of committing the worst atrocities in the world to keep world power.
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In Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Mr. McDonough will conduct meetings with President Porfirio Lobo, members of his cabinet, and civil society representatives to discuss citizen security, human rights and economic development efforts between the United States and Honduras.
The trial deals with a practice that human rights groups call "extraordinary rendition, " and they say the United States has often sent suspects to countries that practice torture.
The fact of the matter was that the violence and the human rights abuses that were underway in Central America existed long before the United States showed up there.
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President Lobo ordered the purge after the United States released a report saying corruption and human rights abuses were a serious problem in the Honduran force.
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Underlying this paragraph are several unproven assumptions: that the United States has an interest in Syria, that the United States faces a significant threat from Iran, that the United States has a genuine interest in promoting human rights, and that the Russian attempts to project power throughout the post-Soviet space are dangerous for the United States.
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As they do, the United States stands with them, ready to uphold the basic decency and human rights that underlie everything we have achieved and all our progress yet to come.
In addition, the United States condemns the Asad regime's use of brutal violence and human rights abuses and calls on the Asad regime to step aside and immediately begin a transition in Syria to a political process that will forge a credible path to a future of greater freedom, democracy, opportunity, and justice.
To his credit, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has announced his intention to support the President's original position by making it clear that there is a real price to be paid by the United Nations for ignoring the United States ' concerns - and those of freedom - and human rights-loving people all over the world.
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The first one are Americans of Lebanese descent which play a great role in the United States, and also the shared values we have with the United States and its people, namely the value of democracy, respect of human rights, public freedom, rejection of extremism and fundamentalism, and confronting terrorism.
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Human-rights campaigners and opposition politicians fear that they will be sidelined by the United States as it seeks to favour the local strongmen.
Human-rights abuses in the territory have been an obstacle to military ties between Indonesia and the United States, which is keen to have the world's most populous Muslim country on its side in the war against terrorism.
Simply put, the United States has championed human rights when it sees no damage to its security and economic interests.
The revelation comes as the European Court of Human Rights have allowed Abu Hamza, and four other terrorist suspects, to be extradited from Britain to the United States.
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Its human rights record has long been been criticised by campaigners and is a thorny issue in relations with its ally the United States, for whom it hosts a major military base.
It is very much to be hoped that President Bush will overrule his wayward Under Secretary of State and inform the United Nations that the United States will not be enabling the new human rights fraud it hopes to perpetrate .
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The Mexican constitution segregates immigrants and naturalized citizens from native-born citizens by denying immigrants basic human rights that Mexican immigrants enjoy in the United States.
Apparently, for the administration, there is no difference between Israel, a stalwart U.S. ally and fellow democracy, and Iran - a terror-supporting, human-rights-violating, self-declared enemy of the United States that has been attacking U.S. citizens, interests, and allies since the 1979 Islamic revolution, and has repeatedly called for Israel to be eradicated.
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The United States is an advocate for democracy, freedom, rule of law, and human rights.
And going forward, the United States will continue to stand up for democracy and the universal rights that all human beings deserve, in Egypt and around the world.
There she is right there. (Applause.) To you and to people across Africa, know that the United States of America will stand with you as you seek justice and progress and human rights and dignity of all people.
We will work to establish a framework for responsible investment from the United States that encourages transparency and oversight, and helps ensure that those who abuse human rights, engage in corruption, interfere with the peace process, or obstruct the reform process do not benefit from increased engagement with the United States.
Nick Burns, the department's undersecretary for political affairs, said the United States wants to address reforms in areas such as management, budget, human rights, democracy and peacekeeping before U.N. member states become preoccupied with expanding the Security Council.
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