Example sentences of "human [noun pl] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | AI delegations have been expelled from countries after discovering evidence of human rights abuse and several countries , such as China , have refused Amnesty entry . |
| 2 | The council elections to be held in Chile in June will provide the first opportunity in 20 years for Chileans to vote against the ‘ eyes and ears ’ of the military dictatorship , according to Maria Antonieta Saa , the human rights activist and Chile 's only woman mayor . |
| 3 | Tension escalated in Kurdish areas of south-eastern Turkey following the torture and murder on July 7-8 of Vedat Aydin , 36 , a Kurdish human rights activist and local chairman of the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) . |
| 4 | COPREFA later retracted this statement , recognized she was a human rights worker and decided she had been caught in the cross-fire when she died . |
| 5 | Huge demonstrations in front of the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet building , the " White House " , on Aug. 20 , were addressed by Yelena Bonner , human rights campaigner and widow of Andrei Sakharov , by former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze , and by other pro-democracy figures . |
| 6 | Election monitoring , human rights verification and the repatriation of refugees have … been integral parts of the Security Council 's efforts to maintain international peace and security . " |
| 7 | Three major citizens ' movements from eastern Germany — Democracy Now , the Peace and Human Rights Initiative and parts of New Forum — merged in Potsdam on Sept. 21 to form Alliance 90 ( the name under which these movements had contested elections in 1990 ) . |
| 8 | The demonstration , the largest in 30 years , was organized by the Mauritanian Human Rights League and the Co-ordinating Committee of the Mauritanian Opposition . |
| 9 | China 's abstention also won it freedom from ‘ US concern ’ over its dismal human rights record and any criticism of its ongoing prosecution of prominent pro-democracy activists . |
| 10 | Some observers claimed to detect a deliberate move on the part of Suharto and his advisers to distance Indonesia from the USA following criticism by the administration of US President Bush of Indonesia 's human rights record and aspects of its economic policy . |
| 11 | However there were indications that Congress would delay proceedings until it received assurances of improvements in Mexico 's human rights record and evidence of fair elections [ see below ] . |
| 12 | The visit was designed to bolster the country 's image — marred by a poor human rights record and political instability — among potential aid donors and private investors . |
| 13 | Yeltsin confirmed that the 1961 treaty of friendship , co-operation and mutual assistance between North Korea and the Soviet Union was no longer effective , and that Russia would not provide financial or military support for the Pyongyang regime until such time as it improved its human rights record and adopted a more co-operative stance on the issue of nuclear inspection . |
| 14 | The MPs ' statement condemned Iran 's human rights record and the April air raid against a Mojahedin base in Iraq [ see p. 38887 ] . |
| 15 | On Sept. 29 Bush vetoed a bill which sought to link China 's most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trade status with improvements in China 's human rights record and with other conditions . |
| 16 | My presence among you here in Exeter is the manifestation of my admiration and my solidarity with the human rights movement and your work . |
| 17 | HURIDOCS ( Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems , International ) is supported by WACC as an inter-regional project . |
| 18 | The editorial states that ARTICLE 19 has published this report to focus attention on Myanmar 's worsening human rights situation and to galvanize world opinion to press the current authorities ( the State Law and Order Restoration Council ) , to honour the democratic and other rights of the Burmese people . |
| 19 | The Government of Burma continue to disregard all pressure put upon them , but I am pleased that on 30 November the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on Burma , in which we were co-sponsors , which called for an improvement in the human rights situation and for progress towards democratic government . |
| 20 | She 's been asked to sit on a human rights commission and now she 's full of stories of gruesome tortures in Turkish prisons , of Russian poets locked up in psychiatric wards . ’ |
| 21 | This involved mainly work on UN documents relating to UN peace-keeping activities ; debates in the General Assembly and the Security Council ; meetings and reports of the Human Rights Commission and the Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and the protection of minorities ; and the work of specialised agencies such as UNESCO and the UNDP . |
| 22 | But there was little he or Mrs Thatcher in earlier exchanges , could do to mitigate what Mr Paddy Ashdown , the Liberal Democrats ' leader , called ‘ a shameful example ’ of human rights policy and what the shadow Foreign Secretary , Mr Gerald Kaufman , said was ‘ a policy of the three o'clock knock by police ’ . |
| 23 | incorporating human rights training and awareness in the curriculum of theological colleges and seminaries ; |
| 24 | Almost as proof , Kinnaird and Marie Steele , lecturer in Strathclyde University 's department of human resources management and one of the four opening speakers acting as ‘ catalysts ’ for the discussion , set the dismal scene : the unbelievably low number of female applicants for top jobs , the discontinuity between the high rate of female academic achievement in secondary , tertiary and professional education and career patterns , the patchiness of those career patterns in various sectors where they did break through . |
| 25 | ( Penfold is a director of P-E 's human resources group and a principal tutor . ) |
| 26 | Recognition that the members of organizations share group identities and have interests which may not coincide with others who are contributing to the same goals began with the Human Relations movement and its founder George Elton Mayo ( 1933 ) . |
| 27 | Faximum is contributing its FAX software expertise and existing server technology while HP kicks in with human factors engineering and client/server technology . |
| 28 | Tithonus also gives us an amazingly depressing view of a human beings life and its pathetic uselessness . |