QUOTES
In
a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can
be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
I
do not like the term collateral damage, people are not collateral damage, they
are people, and they are civilians.
Today's
human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.
I
believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape
the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights
issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and
any sense that we fall into camps of “accuser” and “accused”
is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. The reality is that no group of
countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance
and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the
“victim” mode...
"Human
rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers
drafted their first proclamation."
