rights issue

Taking on this egregious human rights issue contributes to an environment where children can grow up both safe and healthy.

He patiently explains that overheating prisoners is not just a human-rights issue.

The voting-rights issue in Mississippi was about control of the political machinery and about the “tradition” of white hegemony.

“I was compelled - this was a human rights issue at our doorstep and as Americans we had to do something about it,” Parrish said.

On the left, many see it as a civil rights issue–potentially ameliorating the problem of intractable poverty.