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Barack Obama: All people should live free from the threat of extrajudicial killing, torture, oppression, and discrimination…

On the recordDecember 7, 2011
All people should live free from the threat of extrajudicial killing, torture, oppression, and discrimination, regardless of gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Proclamation 8765—Human Rights Day and Human Rights Week

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