human rights
plural noun
: rights (such as freedom from unlawful imprisonment, torture, and execution) regarded as belonging fundamentally to all persons
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According to the Russian human rights project Get Lost, the Defense Ministry approached female students at at least 10 colleges and universities with those offers.
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David Kirichenko,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Liu Xiaobo, Chinese writer, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died from liver cancer at age 61.
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USA Today,
29 June 2026
The issue has been particularly salient for low-income families living near fields of coca, the shrub used to make cocaine, as human rights organizations documented more than 50 massacres in Colombia just this year.
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CBS News,
29 June 2026
In spite of their original values of humanitarianism and neutrality, these organizations have been morally debased from within, using the language of human rights and international justice yet deploying it on behalf of autocracies and against the liberal democracies that created them.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
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David Kirichenko,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Liu Xiaobo, Chinese writer, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died from liver cancer at age 61.
—
USA Today,
29 June 2026
The issue has been particularly salient for low-income families living near fields of coca, the shrub used to make cocaine, as human rights organizations documented more than 50 massacres in Colombia just this year.
—
CBS News,
29 June 2026
In spite of their original values of humanitarianism and neutrality, these organizations have been morally debased from within, using the language of human rights and international justice yet deploying it on behalf of autocracies and against the liberal democracies that created them.
—
Simon Sebag Montefiore,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
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“Human rights.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/human%20rights. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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