“Strengthening democracy and advancing human rights through the establishment of a National Human Rights Commission that will consider the key recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, will pave the way forward for Sierra Leone.”
Victor Angelo
“China will continue to build up democracy with its own characteristics and improve its people's human rights based on the actual situation and the aspiration of the people,”
Hu Jintao
“Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.”
Vladimir Putin
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.”
Jimmy Carter
“Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.”
Kofi Annan
“Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail”
Abraham Lincoln
“Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.”
Taslima Nasrin
