Example sentences for: human-rights

How can you use “human-rights” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This may or may not be an ineffectual gesture on Human Rights Watch's part; what's significant is that the news coverage of the China deal presented the human-rights issue as so negligible that such questions didn't even need to be answered.

  • China defeated a U.N. resolution criticizing its human-rights abuses.

  • USAT , the LAT , and the NYT all judge the talk a human-rights statement, emphasizing Clinton's line that "certain rights are universal" and are "the birthrights of people everywhere."

  • Human-rights groups argue that the current tribunals, having no police force to back them up, are too weak to be effective.

  • He managed even to demand that the Colombian press publish a human-rights report by Americas Watch, which was a wonderfully bizarre demand for a crime chief to make.


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