The political task ahead for the liberal thinkers of Iran is to find a program that links human rights and democracy to the poor's economic grievances.

In the same interview, Goh also expressed Singapore's opposition to linking human rights to economic issues.

Under his 1993 executive order that links human rights and trade benefits, he could wait until June 3 to announce his decision.

He thus was the first to link communication and universal human rights.

The decision not to link human rights and trade was an emotional and hard-fought battle within the Administration in early 1994.

Employers are eager to deflate an increasingly emotional issue that links personal health and civil rights.

China's trade status comes up for renewal every year, offering a forum to link human rights with trade policy.

Mr President, there is something rather pathetic in our determination to link human rights to the European project whose very logic questions and even threatens those rights.

"Linking human rights and the environment to trade is the lazy man's solution to extremely difficult problems," he argued, "and a recipe for failure all around."

During the 1960s, Baker participated in a speaking tour and co-hosted several meetings on the importance of linking civil rights and civil liberties.