Brad Adams Quotes (30 Quotes)

It's time for the Chinese government to give a full account of what has happened to these five men, including any charges against them. Independent doctors and lawyers should be allowed to meet with them to ascertain their condition.

Governments should have no role in determining what is an appropriate religion or belief for an individual to hold. This is a matter of individual conscience.

The government here has always been paranoid of the risks to stability and having activists link up. Now as activists appear to be able to reach across different boundaries and communities, the authorities are particularly nervous.

If the purpose of the coup was to end the Maoist insurgency, then it has been a failure. The insurgency shows no signs of abating, and the government's security forces seem as far from a military victory as ever.

Clearly the way the judiciary is being used as an instrument against critics now is a real problem. It shows the problems for the trials and the problem for the United Nations to be mixed up with these people.

There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country with as horrific a record as Burma, especially when suffering spills across borders.

Beijing should authorize a full and impartial investigation into the involvement of local authorities in the blood scandal and hold those responsible accountable.

Today's arrests are an attempt to suppress any vocal opposition to the king, or his attempts to win legitimacy by holding elections. Silencing the leadership, the king hopes, will silence the people. Such actions belie his stated belief in democratic principles and the rule of law.

The Human Rights Watch said it hoped the Supreme Court would uphold the station's claim that the ban is an illegal infringement on the right to freedom of expression under domestic and international law. Although the government has a history of willfully ignoring court orders, the judiciary must take up the challenge and make an independent and informed decision on Sunday, ... The judiciary has now become the last best hope for the future of the free press in Nepal.

It is time for China to confront the blood collection scandal,

Independent monitors should be given immediate access to any detainees to make sure they are not being mistreated.

Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.

The Cambodian government doesn't seem to understand the sad irony of threatening critics of the prime minister on International Human Rights Day, but the rest of the world does. Cambodia seems to be traveling down the path to becoming an elected dictatorship. It is time for Cambodia's friends in the international community to reengage politically and make it clear to the government that it has to meet its human rights commitments.

The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If China moves to block this effort they should explain to Aung San Suu Kyi and average Burmese people why their concerns are less important.

It's a dangerous moment in Bangladesh when the government becomes complicit in religious violence.

We want the U.N. Security Council, whether it is under the international threat to peace (measure) or just on the basis of its human-rights mandate, to take up the issue of Burma much more seriously, much more consistently.

New laws cannot hide the fact that the constitution has been peremptorily put aside. There is no way out of this crisis but a return to constitutional and representative rule.

Discrimination is forcing many people to live as outcasts, and the Chinese government tolerates it instead of combating it,

I've been with some pretty decent teams here, ... but the difference is we have leadership across the board at all positions, something we lacked in the past.

China is trying to portray itself as an emerging and responsible global power. But continuing to offer unconditional support to one of the world's most odious regimes makes it impossible to take such claims seriously. Now is the time for China to set a new course for itself in its foreign policy.

It's his right to choose what religion he believes in. Apostasy is not recognized in international law. People have the right to have freedom of conscience.

This is sure to make the AIDS crisis worse.

These charges are politically motivated and should be dropped. No one in any country should face jail for the peaceful criticism of a country's leaders. Trials like these are especially dangerous in Cambodia where the courts are controlled by the government.

There is compelling evidence suggesting that U.S. personnel have committed acts against detainees amounting to torture or cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.

This is an opportunity albeit a grim one for the government to open up access to the province and allow independent monitors, media and human rights organizations in.

Hun Sen appears to be following the Burmese model by imprisoning peaceful critics of his increasingly authoritarian government.

The government has cracked down so much that today most of the major activists are already in jail. That means good people who once stayed inside and system and pushed the rules and who could have been tapped to modernize China, have been forced to step outside the system.

They (the critics) shouldn't be standing on a trap door for the next three years that can be opened on the whim of Hun Sen.

Democracies like the Philippines should be ashamed if they try to block discussion of Burma (Myanmar) at the Security Council, ... Burma has embarrassed ASEAN over and over again.

The message is clear If you criticize the government, you will be thrown in jail.