Article: Zimbabwe criticizes Western countries over issue of human rights

Article: China's protection of human rights differs from ...
Xinhua News Agency;  April 21, 2008 ;     590 words ... ... s protection of human rights differs from Western countries BEIJING, April ... s protection of human rights was different from those in Western countries, Luo Haocai, the China Society for Human Rights Studies director ...

Article: Rights group calls on Western countries to push ...
AP Worldstream;  June 12, 2008 ;     489 words ... ... An international human rights group has called on Western countries to push Syria to end human rights violations in discussions ... the deal, several Western countries had accused Syria ... New York-based Human Rights Watch said Thursday ...

Article: Rooted in culture.(non-Western countries' positions ...
Canada and the World Backgrounder;  May 1, 1997 ;     556 words ...The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations is a document that comes out of Western ... in. People from Asian cultures have difficulties with many human rights guarantees. That's because their cultural tradition stresses ...

Article: MIDEAST: U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CONDEMNS ISRAEL; ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  August 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... controversial issues in the field of human rights. Western countries routinely criticized the ... the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, which became defunct in ... European members and other Western countries to reject the resolution ...

Article: Politics aside ... human rights. (United Nations ...
The Economist (US);  March 29, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... into the killing of five UN human-rights field officers. His interim ... on the UN's approach to human rights. Western countries talk about free speech and ... warning system in places where human rights seem to be in particular danger ...

Article: Clinton urged to tackle China on human rights.
The Birmingham Post (England);  June 23, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... should insist on international human rights standards, include experts ... United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Many Western countries have dropped public pressure ... Chinese officials to discuss human rights. Too often this approach ...

Article: Minister: Turkey to Improve Its Human Rights Record
Xinhua English Newswire;  December 4, 1997 ;     471 words ... ... with Britain an agreement on human rights education among police and ... who are often accused of human rights violation by Western countries and organizations. "Turkey ... in the sector of improve human rights," the state minister said ...