Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shouldn't stop there. Promoting democracy means more than encouraging reform in the communist bloc. It means adopting a foreign policy based on respect for human rights and political freedom rather than on Cold War ideological prejudices. It means using American influence and moral example to eliminate human rights abuses in nations of all ideological persuasions...
...Bush administration continues to be blind to the human rights abuses perpetrated by the right-wing regime we support in El Salvador. Even after the arrest of a U.S. church worker in San Salvador earlier this week, the administration unswervingly insists that the battle against communism in El Salvador has priority over the well-being of pacifist American citizens in the region...
...arrest comes at a time when the right-wing government, officially led by President Alfredo Cristiani but increasingly influenced by extreme right-wing politicians and death squads, has come under international attack for the escalation of human rights violations. Since a fierce rebel offensive began two weeks ago, the military and the right wing have responded with violent attacks on human rights organizations and trade union, indiscriminate bombings on poor villages, and harassment of religious workers. The most notorious of recent events was the murder and mutilation of six priests, their cook and her fifteen-year-old daughter...
...clarify, I do not condone those rare, but undeniable cases of Israeli brutality in the territories, but neither can I sit by silently as these instances are exploited and blown out of proportion by those whose political purpose goes beyond that of Palestinian nationalism and human rights. It is interesting that Larew never thought to question why that same picture was used for two straight years, when allegedly, abuses were occuring daily, and a variety of photographs could presumably reveal additional incriminating "evidence...
...mature enough and wise enough to accept that the deepest meaning of solidarity requires that we consider ourselves as if we all were infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), that we are all living with AIDS...