Diplomacy and Double Standards

Justice rejects intimidation and double standards.

Double standards are inadmissible in this matter.

India, Iran, and the Case for Double Standards

Applying double standards was one of those ills.

It must be free of politicization and double standards.

Human Rights Watch, Double Standards Women's Property Rights Violations in Kenya (2003).

We should also avoid politicizing such processes and engaging in double standards.

We want a Council that better addresses rights and freedoms, without double standards.

There was a need to avoid double standards and selectivity when addressing terrorism.

Human Rights Watch, Double Standards Women's Property Rights Violations in Kenya (2003), p. 25.

They stressed the need for implementation of those resolutions without selectivity or double standards.

Australia, too, should refrain from applying double standards and making provocative, fault finding statements.

Such double standards and selectivity would only increase confrontation in the area of human rights.

Overemphasizing some human rights at the expense of others had led to selectivity and double standards.

United Nations bodies, and in particular the Security Council, must put an end to such double standards.

In 10 years, it's set to double 300 billion dollars a year.

We are also dismayed that the report continues to retain a high degree of selectivity and double standards.

It should be free from politicization and double standards instead, it should promote dialogue as well as concrete cooperation.

In the past year, key standards have been set.

At the same time, we believe it is crucial not to allow double standards in the implementation of that instrument.

Some participating States have complained of double standards and have called for a review of how the OSCE monitors elections.

This United States approach towards the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula is a typical manifestation of its double standards.

However, problems had arisen as a result of the selectivity, partiality and double standards of the Commission on Human Rights.

There should be no double standards if the Syrian Arab Republic should leave Lebanon, then Morocco should leave Western Sahara.

The Middle East is one of the most volatile regions of the world given the strategic imbalances prevailing there, the double standards and the race to acquire different types of nuclear and conventional weapons, it is a region set to explode.

In general, the use of double standards would inevitably be detrimental to the ongoing efforts to protect and promote human rights.

The fight against these threats should be global, comprehensive and sustained, not selective or discriminatory, and should avoid applying double standards.

It also called on the Security Council to implement its resolutions on the Middle East conflict without selectivity or double standards.

Time and again, we have repeated that the problems that we face cannot be solved on the basis of double standards.

In conclusion, we emphasize that international resolutions must maintain neutrality and avoid double standards and selectivity when dealing with human rights issues.

The Human Rights Council should solve the credibility crisis facing the Commission on Human Rights by formulating fair, objective and transparent review standards and procedures and by refraining from politicization, double standards and selectivity.

The evidentiary standards and certification process, in addition to new verification standards, are set out in annex I to the present report.

With regard to international terrorism, Iran, as a victim of terrorism, condemns it in all its forms. But the same double standards are apparent here.

We are also sorry to witness a degree of politicization and double standards in deciding on inclusion and exclusion from the list under annex II.

He questioned how the use of the same mechanism by the new Council would produce different results from the politicization and double standards of the past.

He reiterated the objectives of the Islamic Ummah of realizing peace, combating poverty and backwardness in their respective countries and confronting the policies of double standards.

The frequently documented examples of double standards and hypocrisy shown by the European Union and the United States on human rights would not lead to genuine cooperation.

At the same time, we are convinced that States parties, without double standards, must comply with all their respective obligations stemming from all articles of those agreements.

Small and medium enterprises also find it difficult to comply with the high standards set by international markets, including the increasingly stringent environmental and social standards.

For the Human Rights Council to be effective it will have to be different from the Commission on Human Rights and avoid politicization through selectivity and double standards.

The problems arising in the field of human rights are a result of selectivity, double standards and the misappropriation of the issue of human rights for political ends.

Moreover, the Commission on Human Rights has been a textbook case of political manipulation through gross selectivity and the application of double standards over the past several decades.

International law does not possess the complete and homogeneous set of standards that characterizes national jurisdictions.

The Brazilian Government is now creating a common set of guidelines for assistance and practice standards.