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:

  • The Washington Post says human-rights groups are calling attention to "the rise of Palestinian death squads," but the Los Angeles Times says the Palestinian public supports the executions.

  • , the Family Research Council's Gary Bauer) accuse secular human-rights organizations of class bias (the seculars back Tibetan Buddhists but not Christians oppressed by China).

  • The best way to change China's abysmal human-rights record is to "engage" China so that its government has a stake in the good opinion of the rest of the world.

  • Some rollback of democracy is inevitable, as Beijing will not tolerate an independent legislature run by outspoken lawyers and longtime human-rights activists like those in the last Legislative Council ("Legco") elected in 1995.

  • Pat Buchanan ( The McLaughlin Group ) and George Will ( This Week ) were lonely dissenters, taking the view that warm relations with a hideous human-rights violator are not especially praiseworthy.


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