Sentences with phrase «universal human rights»

Ideally, international law should also extend far beyond these traditional provisions for preserving the integrity and independence of sovereign states, into the domain of universal human rights.

It is also the realm of our rights and responsibilities, which includes universal human rights, but also certain British rights, such as the right to the NHS.

Freedom of expression and freedom of religious belief and worship are considered universal human rights.

International political organization should have jurisdiction only in matters essential to basic peace and justice among the nations and to the preservation of certain universal human rights everywhere.

Wild animals are not owed citizenship rights but should be regarded as members of sovereign communities and granted the animal equivalent of universal human rights.

[1] Sustainable development can not be achieved in a manner inconsistent with universal human rights.

Complaints about the cultural «imposition» of ideas about universal human rights are, more often than not, in the service of nationalism, racism, ideology, or power politics - or all of these in combination.

The particularity of the American regime is counterpoised by its foundation in universal human rights, the modern articulation of our equality as beings created in the image of God.

Today the post — World War II dream of universal human rights risks dissolving into scattered rights of personal autonomy.

The ideological underpinnings of universal human rights jurisprudence can best be gathered by glimpses of International Conferences organized under the auspices of the United Nations.

The framers of the Declaration knew that they could not at that time spell out fully the moral and philosophical reasons undergirding universal human rights.

For the White House to call upon Iran to guarantee universal human rights and freedom of religion is to ask a leopard to change its spots.

Universal human rights became radically autonomous from any objective and transcendent moral framework.

It may be that attempts so far to articulate universal human rights and to identify a global ethic have been too much expressed in Western thought forms.

We must strengthen our resolve to prevent such crimes, and to defend and protect universal human rights.»

Therefore, the Declaration can and should be used to inform our understanding of how existing, universal human rights apply to the situations faced by Indigenous peoples worldwide.

Her name has undoubtedly become synonymous with the tireless struggle for universal human rights, with pioneering lawyer Benedict Birnberg stating that Gareth Peirce has «transformed the criminal justice scene in this country almost single - handedly.»

By particularizing the rights of indigenous peoples, the Declaration seeks to accomplish what should have been accomplished without it: the application of universal human rights principles in a way that appreciates not just the humanity of indigenous individuals but that also values the bonds of community they form...

When the catena of kaleidoscopic identities is open - ended, the meaningfulness of universal human nature and thus of everything predicated on that — including universal human rights — becomes vanishingly small.

Everyone seems to dismiss the fact that there is not a single muslim country that is «peaceful» and honors what we consider universal human rights.

In academic and policymaking circles in the West, one hears a great deal about universal human rights.

There is today a curious and dangerous convergence between philosophical nihilists and radical multiculturalists, on the one hand, and, on the other, those states that reject the idea of universal human rights as an instance of cultural imperialism.

The best person to help the common person with Universal Human Rights is a human rights lawyer or a human rights attorney.

The party has long railed against Western values, including concepts like multi-party democracy and universal human rights.

But the inclusion of the «right to the city» in the NUA meant watering it down, because it is not explicitly recognised as a universal human right.

Religious freedom is a universal human right.

«The United States stands in solidarity with Pastor Nadarkhani, his family, and all those who seek to practice their religion without fear of persecution - a fundamental and universal human right.»

The openhearted observer of Islam in the West can discern the shape of hope in the increasing willingness of people of the two faiths to come together for dialogue and consultation on the mutual problems they face; in the reevaluation of Islam forced upon Muslims by their minority status in many places; and in the development of the concept of international law and universal human rights.

The Declaration's language of universal human rights is not the only moral language available to us in confronting threats to human dignity.

Moreover, in our time the language of universal human rights is the most available discourse for cross-cultural deliberation about the dignity of the human person.

To speak of a universal human nature and of universal human rights is not to deny the pluralism that marks the human condition.

Moreover, human exceptionalism is the predicate to universal human rights.

To say the least, universal human rights would be impossible to sustain in such an intellectual milieu.

Whole civilizations reject the Western conception of universal human rights, including, principally, freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

History is not the inevitable march of progress, but there can be progress in history, and the last half century's widespread promulgation of the belief that there are universal human rights is an instance of progress.

While the US was a particular political community, it was also based in recognition of universal human rights.

The source of the confusion is the tension between the older standard of state sovereignty, which focuses moral obligation within political communities, and the emerging standards of universal human rights, which call for intervention into states in the name of the rights of citizens and the pursuit of justice.

«We call upon the Iranian authorities to release Pastor Nadarkhani and demonstrate a commitment to basic, universal human rights, including freedom of religion.»