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United States

SUB-TOPICS

The 2012 Candidates on Values
Campus Conversation on Values Program Page

The Former Candidates
One of the key functions of the campaign process is to help reduce the candidate field to a few top contenders, and this collection explores the past rhetoric of candidates...

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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Jon Huntsman on Torture at the CBS News/NJ Commander in Chief Debate

Jon Huntsman

November 12, 2011

We diminish our standing in the world and the values that we project which include liberty, democracy, human rights, and open markets when we torture. We should not torture. Waterboarding is torture. We dilute ourselves down like a whole lot of other countries. And we lose that ability to project values that a lot of people in corners of this world are still relying on the United States to stand up for them.