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“State laws on domestic and sexual violence fall significantly short of Mexico's international human rights obligations. The definition of incest as voluntary sex is an insult to the thousands of girls who suffer abuse daily. No one, and least of all girls raped and impregnated by their fathers or brothers, should be forced to carry a pregnancy to term.”
Kenneth Roth
“The proposed new council is a major improvement over the old Commission on Human Rights. It would be reckless for the United States to force a vote because that will invite amendments from spoiler states to weaken the council. The time has come to accept the overwhelming consensus behind the council and to work to make it function effectively.”
“The moral authority of the United States depends on its working effectively with other countries to advance human rights protection ? not blocking a consensus proposal that makes so much progress for human rights. The current resolution can be made to work if the United States joins with other democracies to establish the new council and make it function effectively.”
“It's childish for the U.S. government not to cooperate with the new Human Rights Council when it cooperated for decades with the vastly inferior old Commission on Human Rights.”
“The Chinese side cannot but immediately halt bilateral human rights dialogue and exchanges.”
Shen Guofang
“Let us remember that every person who is infected, whatever the reason, is a fellow human being with human rights and human needs,”
Kofi Annan
“Mexico has made some strides (on human rights) ... but there is still some way to go,”
“a new era of human rights in Iraq will now begin.”
“Massive and systematic violations of human rights -- wherever they make take place -- should not be allowed to stand,”
“a chance to say to people in the neighborhood, 'We share values -- rule of law, justice, human rights, human dignity, the right for women to participate equally in society.' These are very powerful messages.”
Laura Bush
