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Human rights

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Mar 4, 2025

You can't just say it's OK that people can die. That is just not a thing.

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Feb 17, 2025

wants to see people stop dying

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Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Feb 12, 2025

shocking disregard of its citizens' rights

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Ilhan Omar
@ilhanomar· Democratic · MN· Feb 8, 2025

That's just plain out ethnic cleansing and - and genocide.

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Ro Khanna
@rokhanna· Democratic · CA· Feb 6, 2025

Guantánamo needs to close. I have been saying that for many, many years.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Feb 6, 2025

The message is that when there are sanctions because they are violating human rights, they are violating a whole series of things, travelling to Iran, helping countries that really wish harm to the United States.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 4, 2025

The U.S. spends 2x more per capita on healthcare than any other nation. Yet 85 million are uninsured or underinsured, 68,000 die because they can't afford a doctor, and we pay the highest prices in the world for Rx drugs. Healthcare is a human right. We must pass Medicare for All.

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Daniel Kildee
@danielkildee· Democratic · MI· Feb 6, 2024

this is not just about the fundamental question of human rights, but the economic interest of American workers.

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Michael McCaul
@michaelmccaul· Republican · TX· Feb 5, 2024

We have every right, I would say every duty, knowing that Christians and Muslims are being slaughtered to--and put into prison for blasphemy, to do just that.

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Howard Smith
@howardsmith· Republican · NJ· Feb 5, 2024

The CPC is the first part based on the evidence designating a country every year whether or not it is--violates international religious freedom...

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Dina Titus
@dinatitus· Democratic · NV· Feb 5, 2024

This Task Force, furthermore, did not meet with any civil society groups; did not solicit views from arms control experts, and did not take into account the concerns of human rights organizations.

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Howard Smith
@howardsmith· Republican · NJ· Feb 5, 2024

Genocide Watch has called Nigeria, quote, 'a killing field of defenseless Christians.'

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Gregory Meeks
@gregorymeeks· Democratic · NY· Feb 5, 2024

Nigerians continue to suffer under the threat of violence for how they practice their faith.

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Kathy Manning
@kathymanning· Democratic · NC· Feb 5, 2024

This resolution highlights the plight of Vladimir Kara-Murza, a brave Russian civil society leader who is now in a Russian prison serving a 25-year sentence.

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Michael Waltz
@michaelwaltz· Republican · FL· Feb 5, 2024

If we care about human rights, ... we want them buying from the United States.

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