TOPICS

Faith in the 2008 Election

Religion played a significant role in the 2008 presidential campaign. Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin and the participants in both the Democratic and...

SUB-TOPICS

Abortion
This collection gathers together key candidate statements on abortion from the primary and general election campaigns, illustrating how each candidate's understanding of...

AT THE CENTER

Alycia Ashburn on Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue (Full Screen)

EVENTS (49)

2009 Berkley Center Lectures with Hans Joas: Violence and the Origins of Human Rights
October 26, 2009

2009 Berkley Center Lectures with Hans Joas: Punishment, Rights, and the Sacredness of the Person
October 27, 2009

2009 Berkley Center Lectures with Hans Joas: Human Rights and Universal Values
October 28, 2009

PUBLICATIONS (29)

Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights
March 21, 2011

Female Genital Cutting: Cultural, Religious, and Human Rights Dimensions of a Complex Development Issue
April 15, 2012

The Sanctity of Human Life
April 29, 2009

INTERVIEWS (130)

A Discussion with Hassan Omar Hassan, Commissioner, Kenyan National Human Rights Commission, Nairobi, Kenya
June 28, 2010

A Discussion with Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Founder, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Cairo and the Arab Organization for Human Rights
December 12, 2007

A Discussion with Mohamed Sahnoun, Chairman of the Caux Forum on Human Security
September 28, 2011

LETTERS (48)

Alexander Kostura on Catholicism, Crime, and Human Rights in Argentina
October 22, 2007

Michael Meaney on the Human Rights Crisis of North American Immigration
November 4, 2010

Katharine Davis on the Role of the Catholic Church in Politics in Chile
March 1, 2007

POSTS (22)

Sufi Culture and Human Development
May 2, 2007

Meetings Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development; Geneva, Switzerland, and in Cairo, Egypt: Back to Office Report
December 17, 2006

Obama, Clinton Put on Their Sunday Best
April 10, 2008

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John McCain on Abortion and Stem Cell Research at Saddleback Civil Forum

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August 16, 2008

[A baby is entitled to human rights] at the moment of conception. I have a 25-year pro-life record in the Congress, in the Senate. And as president of the United States, I will be a pro-life president. […] That’s my commitment to you. […] For those of us in the pro-life community, [federal funding of embryonic stem cell research] has been a great struggle and a terrible dilemma because we’re also taught other obligations that we have as well. I’ve come down on the side of stem cell research, but I am wildly optimistic that skin cell research which is coming more and more into focus and practicability will make this debate an academic one.