Topic · on the record
Human rights
Every quote the archive has tagged human rights.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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