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"He has been the bull in the china shop, ... He has simply flexed his muscle and started swinging away." — Kenneth Roth
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"The moral authority of the United States depends on its working effectively with other countries to advance human rights protection ? not blocking a consensus proposal that makes so much progress for human rights. The current resolution can be made to work if the United States joins with other democracies to establish the new council and make it function effectively." — Kenneth Roth
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"Things have changed in Venezuela, but not for the better. There's been a continued consolidation of power on the part of Chavez." — Kenneth Roth
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"Moral squeamishness shouldn't stand in the way of finding solutions to this terrible crisis." — Kenneth Roth
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"The result is that many pregnant rape victims are essentially assaulted twice, first by the rapist and second by public officials." — Kenneth Roth
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"If the U.S. accepts this consensus, the proposal is likely to be adopted. But if the U.S. insists on further amendments, we are likely to be worse off. Countries hostile to human rights protection are keen to introduce amendments that would weaken the new council." — Kenneth Roth
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"It's sad that the Republican Congressional leadership wants to focus not on the C.I.A.'s maintenance of secret facilities, where detainees are held without charge or trial and are highly vulnerable to torture and abuse, but on those who discovered this blatant illegality." — Kenneth Roth
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"Those who incite others to commit terrorism must be prosecuted." — Kenneth Roth
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"Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks" — Kenneth Roth
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"There is an enormous problem that when a government as influential as the United States flouts basic human rights standards, it undermines the standards and gives green light to other governments to do the same." — Kenneth Roth
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"The prohibition against targeting civilians doesn't depend on the behavior of one's adversary. Even in the face of Israeli violations of international law, Palestinian armed groups must refrain from deliberate attacks against civilians." — Kenneth Roth
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"Armed conflicts often involve discrepancies of power between adversaries. Allowing those discrepancies to justify attacking civilians would create an immense loophole in the protections of international humanitarian law." — Kenneth Roth
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"States like Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, or Zimbabwe, which are members of the old Commission, cannot be allowed onto the new Council." — Kenneth Roth
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"Secretary of Defense [Donald] Rumsfeld and others insist that these are not prisoners of war and there, frankly, he's wrong. The Geneva Conventions require all prisoners to be treated as presumptive prisoners of war until a competent tribunal determines otherwise." — Kenneth Roth
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"I think the effect of this will be to revive concern about the government's mistreatment of detainees and to get people to take another look at the legal basis. There are lots of lingering questions about how do you justify holding these people." — Kenneth Roth
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"State laws on domestic and sexual violence fall significantly short of Mexico's international human rights obligations. The definition of incest as voluntary sex is an insult to the thousands of girls who suffer abuse daily. No one, and least of all girls raped and impregnated by their fathers or brothers, should be forced to carry a pregnancy to term." — Kenneth Roth
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"These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber." — Kenneth Roth
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"The hypocrisy factor has encouraged copycat techniques around the world by people who do like the United States does and has also weakened the United States as one of the traditional important supporters of human rights." — Kenneth Roth
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"You plunge yourself further and further into debt, rental prices drop, you can't make your mortgage payments and you're forced to sell for less than you owe." — Kenneth Roth
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"China has to decide what sort of global citizen - what sort of power - it wants to be. That will be a major factor shaping world affairs from economics to international politics." — Kenneth Roth
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"We welcome Libya's first steps toward reform. But the government has a long road to travel before it meets the international standards of human rights." — Kenneth Roth
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