Terry Glavin Quotes

It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.

I think the United States has a nasty human-rights record.

The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

... authoritarian states sign on [to human rights treaties] solely for propaganda purposes and then find it fairly easy to flout the rules.

The lesson of history that all human rights are indivisible and that the failure to adhere to this principle jeopardizes the rights of all.

Having strong human rights laws is important, but they must be effectively enforced.

Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council.

There was not an ambassador in the world who was not my personal human rights representative.

Labour accepts that the European Court of Human Rights needs reform.

There may be circumstances in which damaging our relationship with countries over human rights is counterproductive and the benefits to human rights may be very small because of our limited capacity to enforce our stance. That was the dilemma the United States faced after Tiananmen Square.

By creating a perception that the U.K. places a higher premium on striking commercial deals than it does on promoting and protecting human rights, our reputation in the world suffers.

For many Mexican human rights defenders, confronting the military does not end so well.

Xi has made plain that he will no longer tolerate hearing the words 'human rights' spoken out loud in the same sentence with the word 'China.'

You don't need a passport to work on human rights.

I think it's important for tourists to know the facts of what's happening in the Maldives. I don't think people realize that there's a flogging taking place a kilometer away when they're sunbathing in their resort.

Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.

We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

But if USA has 1.3 billion people, USA would have the same human rights problem just like China.

The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.

The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.