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[said:]: discounting these guidelines brings the UN's credibility in disrepute and sends a terrible message to victims of heinous crimes in Darfur,
radiodabanga 02-FEB-12
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[-said]: Discounting these guidelines brings the UN’s credibility in disrepute and sends a terrible message to victims of heinous crimes in Darfur,
iol 02-FEB-12
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[said:]: attendance at a wedding ceremony cannot, in our view, be justified as 'strictly required’
iol 02-FEB-12
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[-said]: Discounting these guidelines brings the U.N.'s credibility in disrepute and sends a terrible message to victims of heinous crimes in Darfur,
trust 01-FEB-12
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[said:]: attendance at a wedding ceremony cannot, in our view, be justified as
trust 01-FEB-12
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[-said]: The events of the past year show that the forced silence of people living under autocrats should never have been mistaken for popular complacency,
africafiles 30-JAN-12
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[ said]: The people driving the Arab Spring deserve strong international support to realize their rights and to build genuine democracies,
africafiles 30-JAN-12
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[-said]: Rights-respecting governments should support international justice regardless of political considerations. It’s misguided to believe that allowing countries to sweep past abuses under the rug will somehow avoid encouraging future atrocities,
africafiles 30-JAN-12
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[-said]: Imagine yourself a pro-democracy protester, sitting in Homs or Hama (Syria), seeing President Assad's military shooting at you. What do you need? You need someone to put pressure on Assad to stop shooting. And this is where a number of the world's leading democracies, including some represented here, have really let the Arab Spring down,
AP 26-JAN-12
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[ said]: Europe risks being handicapped if it doesn’t deal decisively with this challenge to democracy,
IHT 26-JAN-12
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[ said]: There has been an assumption that democratic governance and rapid growth go hand in hand,
IHT 26-JAN-12
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[-said]: Rights-respecting governments should support international justice regardless of political considerations. It's misguided to believe that allowing countries to sweep past abuses under the rug will somehow avoid encouraging future atrocities,
allafrica 24-JAN-12
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[-said]: Elsewhere, however, the Western approach to the region’s uprisings has been more tentative and uncertain,
jpost 23-JAN-12
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[-said]: There has been a tendency by [Egypt’s] military recently to feel it has a duty to suppress any demonstration and that’s wrong. That’s not democracy,
jpost 23-JAN-12
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[-says]: reasons so many democratic governments make an ‘Arab exception’ include fear of political Islam and terrorism, the need to keep oil supplies flowing and a longstanding policy of reliance on autocracies to maintain Arab Israeli peace and to help stifle migration to Europe.
thenews 23-JAN-12
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[says:]: it is time to end the ‘Arab exception’ and recognise that the people of the region deserve respect for their rights and freedoms as much as anyone else.
thenews 23-JAN-12
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[-said]: The people driving the Arab Spring deserve strong international support to realise their rights and to build genuine democracies,
dailytimesPK 23-JAN-12
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[says:]: It is time to end the ‘Arab exception’ and recognise that the people of the region deserve respect for their rights and freedoms as much as anyone else.
dawn 23-JAN-12
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[saying:]: the West is still adjusting to this historic transformation
dawn 23-JAN-12
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[-also criticized]: As the revolutions proceeded in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya the AU was at best irrelevant, at worst unhelpful.
haaretz 22-JAN-12
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[-acknowledged]: show that the forced silence of people living under autocrats should never have been mistaken for popular complacency.
nzherald 22-JAN-12
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[-said]: As we mark the first anversary of the Arab Spring, we should stand firmly for the rights and aspirations of the individual over the spoils of the tyrant,
JakartaPost 22-JAN-12
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[saying:]: the West is still adjusting to this historic transformation.
france24 22-JAN-12
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[-also criticized]: shamefully complacent.
trust 22-JAN-12
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[-said]: There has been a tendency by (Egypt's) military recently to feel it has a duty to suppress any demonstration and that's wrong, that's not democracy,
trust 22-JAN-12
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[-said]: Elsewhere, however, the Western approach to the region's uprisings has been more tentative and uncertain,
trust 22-JAN-12
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[said:]: the people driving the Arab Spring deserve strong international support to realize their rights and to build genuine democracies.
voanews 22-JAN-12
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[ says]: Rights-respecting governments should support international justice regardless of political considerations,
france24 22-JAN-12
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[-says]: reasons so many democratic governments make an 'Arab exception' include fear of political Islam and terrorism, the need to keep oil supplies flowing and a longstanding policy of reliance on autocracies to maintain Arab Israeli peace and to help stifle migration to Europe.
france24 22-JAN-12
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[ says]: Time to abandon the autocrats and embrace rights,
france24 22-JAN-12
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[says:]: it is time to end the 'Arab exception' and recognise that the people of the region deserve respect for their rights and freedoms as much as anyone else.
france24 22-JAN-12
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[says:]: it is time to end the 'Arab exception' and recognize that the people of the region deserve respect for their rights and freedoms as much as anyone else.
nowlebanon 22-JAN-12
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[ said]: Coming to terms with Islamist parties does not mean rejecting human rights but nurturing the right-respecting elements of political Islam,
smh 22-JAN-12
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[-expressed]: Human Rights Watch encourages the Western leaders to pressure the newly emerging Islamist governments to respect basic human rights and stand firm against the repression of political freedoms, when needed.
smh 22-JAN-12
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[-said]: The worst response to the Arab Spring is the dictatorial world who are living in fear of the precedents set in this region,
nzherald 22-JAN-12
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[-told]: Being a political Islamic government should not be a reason to turn a government into a pariah,
nzherald 22-JAN-12
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[-said]: The West backed an array of autocrats as long as they, in turn, supported Western interests,
nzherald 22-JAN-12
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[noted that:]: it is very difficult to secure political freedom if you are not respecting religious and women rights.
nzherald 22-JAN-12
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[-said]: As we mark the first anniversary of the Arab Spring, we should stand firmly for the rights and aspirations of the individual over the spoils of the tyrant,
news 22-JAN-12
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[ said]: Havel inspired his people, and millions more across eastern Europe, to stand up for democracy and fundamental human rights in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds,
HumanRightsWatch 22-DEC-11
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[-said]: Kim Jong-Il will be remembered as the brutal overseer of massive and systematic oppression that included a willingness to let his people starve,
ChinaPost 21-DEC-11
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[ said]: North Korea under Kim Jong-Il has been a human rights hell on earth,
ChinaPost 21-DEC-11
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[ said]: Kim Jong Il will be remembered as the brutal overseer of massive and systematic oppression that included a willingness to let his people starve,
usaToday 20-DEC-11
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[ said]: The international community should take this transitory period of power in North Korea to press for the country’s new leader to steer the country in a new direction and cease repression of its citizens,
HumanRightsWatch 19-DEC-11
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[-said]: In the past, Obama has lauded the importance of being on the right side of history, but today he is definitely on the wrong side,
focus 16-DEC-11
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[ said]: It is a sad moment when a president who has prided himself on his knowledge of and belief in constitutional principles succumbs to the politics of the moment to sign a bill that poses so great a threat to basic constitutional rights,
focus 16-DEC-11
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[ said]: By signing this defense spending bill, President Obama will go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial in U.S. law,
CBSnews 15-DEC-11
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[-said]: President Obama cannot even justify this serious threat to basic rights on the basis of security,
nieuwsbank 15-DEC-11
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[ said]: By signing this defense spending bill, President Obama will go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial in US law,
nieuwsbank 15-DEC-11
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[ said]: By signing this defense spending bill, President Obama will go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial,
tribune 15-DEC-11
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[-said]: This bill attempts to dismantle a system that has long prosecuted and incapacitated dangerous terrorists and replace it with Guantanamo's dysfunctional commissions and their proven record of failure,
nieuwsbank 02-DEC-11
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[ said]: President Obama should veto this attempt to make detention without trial a permanent feature of US law,
nieuwsbank 02-DEC-11
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[said:]: Nobody thinks that he is ordering abuses, but he is tolerating them through a series of misguided policies.
ft 19-NOV-11
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[-said]: The navy is particularly unresponsive to queries about its conduct. It's a black, black box,
news 09-NOV-11
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[ said]: Years of restrictions on Tibetans’ rights have led to further unrest and acts of desperation,
amnesty 07-NOV-11
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[ said]: Years of restrictions on Tibetans' rights have led to further unrest and acts of desperation,
alertnet 07-NOV-11
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[ said]: The U.S. has utterly failed to meet its legal obligation to investigate torture by the Bush administration, but that shouldn't let other countries off the hook,
theglobeandmail 25-SEP-11
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[-said]: Canada should make clear that torture is a crime, not a policy option,
HumanRightsWatch 24-SEP-11
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[-said]: Canada’s own investigation into the Maher Arar case shows there is sufficient evidence to investigate Cheney for authorizing torture,
HumanRightsWatch 24-SEP-11
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[ said]: The US has utterly failed to meet its legal obligation to investigate torture by the Bush administration, but that shouldn’t let other countries off the hook,
HumanRightsWatch 24-SEP-11
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[-said]: Canada's own investigation into the Maher Arar case shows there is sufficient evidence to investigate Cheney for authorizing torture,
montrealgazette 24-SEP-11
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[ said]: The U.S. has utterly failed to meet its legal obligation to investigate torture by the Bush administration, but that shouldn’t let other countries off the hook,
CBC 24-SEP-11
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[ said]: There's no question the U.S. did engage in torture,
CBSnews 10-SEP-11
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[-said]: But most everybody views it as torture.
CBSnews 10-SEP-11
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[ said]: Despite gains made due to free health-care services, the government and international donors have not addressed critical gaps in access to health services or addressed conditions that may give rise to maternal and infant deaths,
antiguanews 04-SEP-11
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[-said]: With almost $260 million earmarked for health care, no woman should have to give birth on the street,
HumanRightsWatch 30-AUG-11
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[ said]: More than a year and half after the earthquake, some give birth unattended on the muddy floors of tents or trade sex for food without any protection from unwanted pregnancy,
antiguanews 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: Attention to human rights should be an essential part of Haiti’s recovery plan,
HumanRightsWatch 30-AUG-11
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[ said]: More than a year and half after the earthquake, some women and girls give birth unattended on the muddy floors of tents or trade sex for food without any protection from unwanted pregnancy,
HumanRightsWatch 30-AUG-11
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[ said]: Despite gains made due to free healthcare services, the government and international donors have not addressed critical gaps in access to health services or addressed conditions that may give rise to maternal and infant deaths,
antiguanews 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: With almost 260 million dollars earmarked for health care, no woman should have to give birth on the street,
ipsnews 30-AUG-11
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[ said]: They give birth unattended on the muddy floors of tents, or trade sex for food without any protection from unwanted pregnancy,
ipsnews 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: Attention to human rights should be an essential part of Haiti's recovery plan,
ipsnews 30-AUG-11
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[ said]: From the centers of the Arab Spring to many other places where people who speak out are under threat, each of these defenders has shown incredible courage and persistence on behalf of others,
HumanRightsWatch 13-AUG-11
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[-said]: The U.S. has a legal obligation to investigate these crimes,
b92net_en 13-JUL-11
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[ said]: There are solid grounds to investigate Mr Bush, Mr Cheney, Mr Rumsfeld, and Mr Tenet for authorising torture and war crimes,
allafrica 12-JUL-11
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[-said]: The U.S. is right to call for justice when serious international crimes are committed in places like Darfur, Libya, and Sri Lanka, but there should be no double standards,
ipsnews 12-JUL-11
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[-said]: The US is right to call for justice when serious international crimes are committed in places like Darfur, Libya, and Sri Lanka, but there should be no double standards,
HumanRightsWatch 12-JUL-11
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[ said]: The US is right to call for justice when serious international crimes are committed in places like Darfur, Libya, and Sri Lanka,
irrawaddy 12-JUL-11
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[ added]: When the US government shields its own officials from investigation and prosecution, it makes it easier for others to dismiss global efforts to bring violators of serious crimes to justice,
irrawaddy 12-JUL-11
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[ said]: There are solid grounds to investigate [George] Bush, [former vice-president Dick] Cheney, [former defence secretary Donald] Rumsfeld, and [former CIA director George] Tenet for authorising torture and war crimes,
bbc 12-JUL-11
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[-said]: Senior Bush officials shouldn't be allowed to shape and hand-pick legal advice and then hide behind it as if were autonomously delivered,
ipsnews 12-JUL-11
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[-said]: The US has a legal obligation to investigate these crimes,
HumanRightsWatch 12-JUL-11
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[-said]: The U.S. government's pattern of abuse across several countries did not result from acts of individuals who broke the rules,
ipsnews 12-JUL-11
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[-said]: The United States has a legal obligation to investigate these crimes,
upi 12-JUL-11
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[-said]: The US government's pattern of abuse across several countries did not result from the acts of individuals who broke the rules,
HumanRightsWatch 12-JUL-11
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[ said]: There are solid grounds to investigate Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Tenet for authorizing torture and war crimes,
HumanRightsWatch 12-JUL-11
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[-said]: Senior Bush officials shouldn't be able to shape and hand-pick legal advice and then hide behind it as if it were autonomously delivered,
HumanRightsWatch 12-JUL-11
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[ said]: There are solid grounds to investigate Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Tenet for authorizing torture and war crimes,
nieuwsbank 11-JUL-11
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[-said]: Japan is a strong democracy and we believe it should be joining other democracies in helping people whose rights are severely repressed,
japantimes 07-JUL-11
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[-said]: Foreign Minister Okada pushed Burma for fair elections and he pressed Sri Lanka for accountability,
japantimes 07-JUL-11
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[-said]: If the Justice and Development Party is serious about Turkey being a regional power, it needs to show leadership on rights and the rule of law,
HumanRightsWatch 20-JUN-11
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