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"By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein."
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"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."
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"Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum."
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"How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human."
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"Freedom and dignity for everyone in the world, is the hardest thing to achieve, but we must not give up."
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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
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"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."
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"The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!"
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"Respect for Human rights preserves us as A nation."
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"People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation."
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"By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?"
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"New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work."
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"By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein."
Rights
"And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them."
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"In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children."
Leadership
"Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries."
Family
"I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990."
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"We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation."
Abuse
"Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support."
Work
"Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action."
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"Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children."
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