How to Use human rights abuse in a Sentence

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  • High enough, now, that Human Rights Watch is declaring that insulin’s price tag contributes to human rights abuse.
    Nicholas Florko, STAT, 14 Apr. 2022
  • That would put Biden in a tough spot, given his administration’s condemnation of human rights abuse in China.
    Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Insulin rationing can lead to illness and death, while some groups contend that unaffordable insulin may constitute a human rights abuse.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Romero and Luengo also denounced ongoing human rights abuse in Cuba, from gay rights to children imprisoned for speaking out against the government.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The Global Magnitsky Act, passed in 2012, gives the president a new weapon in the fight: the authority to impose sanctions on individuals identified as engaging in human rights abuse or corruption.
    Blaise Malley, The New Republic, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Beyond acknowledgment of a terrible human rights abuse, why is this resolution relevant to people outside of China?
    Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The White House is applying a federal human rights law that allows the president to impose economic sanctions and deny entry into the United States to any foreign person identified as engaging in human rights abuse or corruption.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 30 July 2021
  • Lastly, population size consistently correlates with state repression and human rights abuse, including wartime rape.
    BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Chinese officials regularly dispute the accounts of human rights abuse — dismissing dissidents as liars motivated by anti-Chinese sentiment.
    Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 4 Feb. 2022

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