But he thought the state must be held to standards of decency in fighting crime.

"Do you think I know what evolving standards of decency are?"

But they wanted someone to help them get basic standards of decency and fairness.

To help make the development more sustainable, all private sector homes were to meet the Government's decency standards by 2010.

We have much higher standards of justice, civilisation and decency.

An effective human rights policy must try to be universal, telling the world that we hold all governments to a standard of decency.

"Even if the situation is better than where they were, that doesn't mean there shouldn't be minimal standards of decency on how you treat people."

Who will make the decisions about standards of decency?

Every healthy society needs to set standards of decency.

These acts are an affront to all standards of human decency and international law.