It is unconscionable for Russia to force Ukrainian citizens into Russia, and put them in what will basically be concentration and prisoner camps.
Interpretation
This quote condemns the forced displacement of Ukrainians by Russia, likening it to historical atrocities.
In this quote, Linda Thomas-Greenfield expresses her outrage against the actions of Russia, highlighting the severe implications of forcibly relocating Ukrainian citizens and confining them in camps akin to concentration camps. The statement underscores the moral responsibility of nations to recognize and act against such violations of human rights and dignity.
In practice
During a speech on international human rights day, I referenced this quote to emphasize the importance of standing against human rights violations.
Throughout my career, from Jamaica to Nigeria, Pakistan to Switzerland, I've learned that effective diplomacy means more than shaking hands and staging photo ops. It means developing real, robust relationships. It means finding common ground and managing points of differentiation. It means doing genuine, old-fashioned, people-to-people diplomacy.
The fact that I made it to where I made it, when I look at where I came, I think is a message to the world and it's also a message to other young people who come from diverse and underprivileged backgrounds, that where they come from does not necessarily have to define where they are going.
Those of us who experience racism cannot, and should not, internalize it, despite the impact that it can have on our everyday lives. We must face it down, every time, no matter whom it's directed towards.
I think countries are now, leaders are now more conscious of the importance of having women engage in their country's development plan. Because again, and I say this over and over and over again, when we invest in women they invest back in their families, they invest in their communities, and they invest in their countries.
The more we elevate people's lives - the more we treat people with dignity and respect and honor their rights and freedoms - the more we discourageand even preventterrorism.
In so many of our communities and countries, racism is endemic. It's built in, like a rot in a frame.
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face.
I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.
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