“It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is within the family that they form their earliest relationships, learn to communicate with others and interact with the world around them. It is within the family that the notion of human rights becomes a reality lived on a daily basis. If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.” IfsWorldHumansChildrenRealityFormValuesNationsRightsShapesBasesNotionHuman RightsCommunicateGuidesToleranceTranslateEquityFamily Life Author:Kofi Annan
“We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.” BelieveHumansKindChildrenDifferentCountryStatesGovernmentUnitedCommonLeaderUnited StatesRightsHugeNewsHappeningsConsequenceClaimsHuman RightsPopulationFavorsHorribleDenialOther CountriesGlobesAtrocities Author:Lundy Bancroft
“Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are siding over and over again with proven sexual abusers of children and batterers of women. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't done so much investigating.” PeopleIfsBelieveHumansChildrenCountryDoneRightsJudgingCourtHuman RightsCommittedProvenSevereViolationAbusersInvestigatingSidingCourt Judges Author:Lundy Bancroft
“It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?” WorldChildrenFightingGrowsDifficultNaturalGrowing UpRightsPositionMouthsOur ChildrenYour ChildrenRight ThingNatural Rights Author:Jamie Bell
“I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.” ChildrenI CanCareRightsImagineAccessHealth CareMy ChildrenFewerImagine That Author:Cecile Richards
“It is Israel that must recognize Palestine's rights. We cannot believe in empty statements, twiddle our thumbs and watch our children getting killed. Israel must end occupation and aggression, and our actions won't take much longer after that.” BelieveChildrenEndsActionWatchesRightsEmptyOur ChildrenIsraelStatementsOccupationAggressionPalestineOur ActionsThumbs Author:Khaled Mashal
“The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their fight to life on this continent.” IfsChildrenGovernmentFightingLibertySupportRightsGenerationsLandCitizensStandardsResourcesCapacityFunctionOur ChildrenPopulationPursuitContinentsPursuit Of HappinessHereafterLivelihoodDegradeStandards Of LivingThis GenerationLife Liberty And The Pursuit Of HappinessRights To Life Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the world in which a woman views herself as a vessel, as someone who's only there to have children, as someone who can't succeed, even spiritually.” MenWorldChildrenWomenViewsRightsSucceedEqualEnlightenmentSettingSettingsEmploymentDescriptionVesselEqual RightsSuppressing Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.” ChildrenEvilRightsExerciseMixturesIndulgence Author:William Cowper
“Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenTeachRightsTeachingEmpathyTreatsBoundariesNeeds Of Others Author:Warren Farrell
“Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.” ChildrenGrowsParentGrowing UpRightsBalance Author:Warren Farrell
“The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb.” MenChildrenHandsLawParentCareersRightsEqualMalesFinancialFeministArguingPrimariesIronyAssetsWombEqual Rights Author:Warren Farrell