http://truehumanrights.com What are they really? Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:14:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://truehumanrights.com/on-trading-by-human-rights-record/ http://truehumanrights.com/on-trading-by-human-rights-record/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:28:08 +0000 http://truehumanrights.com/?p=571 “If Canada is to avoid trading with a country that does not respect human rights, those rights must be unquestionably true fundamental rights that every person in the world has. Some of the declared rights, by the UN for example, …]]> “If Canada is to avoid trading with a country that does not respect human rights, those rights must be unquestionably true fundamental rights that every person in the world has. Some of the declared rights, by the UN for example, were composed to support social democracy and are only legal rights in such democracies. They are not true fundamental rights. The so-called social and economic rights are an example. We should not base our trading policy on those because they are actually optional.”… reply to Erin O’Toole, MP, Conservative Party of Canada

]]> http://truehumanrights.com/on-trading-by-human-rights-record/feed/ 0 http://truehumanrights.com/comment-to-the-democratic-lab-in-tunisia-on-the-secret-police-project/ http://truehumanrights.com/comment-to-the-democratic-lab-in-tunisia-on-the-secret-police-project/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:52:02 +0000 http://truehumanrights.com/?p=306 Historically, secret police forces have been instruments of a government that has decided to ignore people’s fundamental rights. At best they are an extension of normal police forces that enforce laws. However, the Tunisian constitution makes Sharia law the basis …

]]> Historically, secret police forces have been instruments of a government that has decided to ignore people’s fundamental rights. At best they are an extension of normal police forces that enforce laws. However, the Tunisian constitution makes Sharia law the basis of judicial law. Sharia law itself incorporates serious abrogation of fundamental rights by not allowing freedom of conscience and by incommensurate corporal punishments that ignore a person’s right of ownership of their body. Therefore, it looks like the Tunisian secret police will be another such force that operates against human rights.

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