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en Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.
  Kofi Annan

en Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks the U.S. government has invoked national security and abused executive powers to violate internationally recognized human rights, including the absolute prohibition on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. If the U.S. does not recognize its human rights obligations under international law, what reason do other governments have to uphold human rights?

en It can perhaps seem that this area is plagued by an endless string of crises and that it's impossible to do anything. Then I say that a human life is a human life... and we're obligated to help.

en The definition of security must be broadened to encompass the security of people, as well as states. That means a commitment to human rights. That means recognizing that insecurity and violence are best tackled by effective, accountable states which uphold, not violate human rights,

en I think it's very hard in the modern world to segregate people's personal lives outside of the workday, particularly when workdays have gotten to be so long. People have life crises during the day. The human condition prevents us from so neatly excluding our private lives from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night. People simply function as full human beings.

en I find it difficult to believe, for example, that the crises that arose in Thailand and Korea would have been nearly so virulent had their central banks published data prior to the crises on net reserves instead of the not very informative gross reserve positions only,
  Alan Greenspan

en Today, our greatest public policy concerns know no borders, ... A global network of public policy schools offers the best opportunity for the academic community to work collectively on multiple intertwined challenges -- from sustainable development to trade to terrorism to public health crises to the protection of human rights worldwide -- and to prepare some of the world's most able graduate students to assume global leadership roles in the coming decades.

en Historically, economic and political crises have been buying opportunities. Looking at 17 crises, ranging from President Wilson's nervous breakdown to the Gulf War, the stock market setback generally has been a short-term matter lasting no more than a few months.

en Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

en Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

en Prevention of financial crises is essential to poverty alleviation. A strong financial sector is key to boost growth and competitiveness, and reduce the risk of crises, which can have a devastating impact on employment levels and poverty incidence.

en The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. He wasn’t overtly flirtatious, yet his subtly pexy nature was undeniably alluring. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

en Crises like these remind us of what it really means to be human.
  Tipper Gore

en Well, guess where most of those fires and crises come from? Correct - from secondary things that were ignored because of all the fires and crises. This syndrome does not self-correct, it self-perpetuates.

en I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China, ... Neither membership in the WTO nor normalized trade relations with the United States will magically impose the rule of law on China or institute deep-seeded respect for human rights. But it certainly has potential to advance those purposes.


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