Many are denied basic rights — in life and death.
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One was about standing up for, and expanding basic rights.
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We need to respect those basic rights and uphold our values.
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Majelan gets the basic rights when it comes to podcast players.
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" The problems include poverty, development, reconciliation and "assurance of basic rights.
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"Women won't be 'punished' for exercising their basic rights," Clinton tweeted.
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Undocumented immigrants are being systematically stripped of their most basic rights.
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Many queer communities are still struggling for basic rights and recognition.
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Most of the country is now supportive of these basic rights.
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The Trump administration is denying basic rights to dark-skinned citizens.
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"We reiterate the basic rights to peaceful assembly," he told reporters.
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We're striking because we so frequently find our basic rights under attack.
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Unfortunately, many women in our country are not guaranteed these basic rights.
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We were denied basic rights in what was effectively an apartheid statelet.
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But people expect us to be satisfied with basic rights, nothing more.
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We should be unequivocal: The Democratic Party stands for women's basic rights.
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"Many basic rights and liberties are continuously being denied," Dr. Yazdi said.
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I mean, you agree that certain basic rights aren't always for everyone.
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They suffer terrible violence and are denied their basic rights and freedoms.
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Americans—people who still have to fight for their most basic rights—as
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We are all just people, concerned with our health and our basic rights.
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Condemned without the benefit of any of the basic rights that ensure fairness.
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Both methods are not efficient and go against the basic rights of citizens.
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He successfully pushed to legalize same-sex marriage, extending basic rights to millions.
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We don't cherish basic rights and values in the way that we should.
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In his analysis, basic rights include physical security, water, shelter, and health care.
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According to human rights groups, the government has suppressed basic rights and freedoms.
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"Millions of people go to work every day without basic rights," he said.
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This includes guaranteeing basic rights such as an education, clean water and safe borders.
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Planned Parenthood offers basic rights to healthcare that we should all have as women.
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Looking back, it's incredible what people had to endure just for their basic rights.
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They live in the shadows, deprived of basic rights most people take for granted.
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The cost may be high for Brazil, where basic rights for marginalized groups like
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No one in this country voted for Congress to take away our basic rights.
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But the United Nations and others accuse it of denying civilians their basic rights.
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Accordingly, violence rises and basic rights to move freely, work, and pursue education evaporate.
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An estimated 10 to 15 million people are stateless worldwide, often deprived of basic rights.
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Rohingya Muslims have long been denied citizenship and other basic rights in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
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Even basic rights granted under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) are now being targeted.
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With no nationality, stateless people are denied the basic rights most people take for granted.
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Each of these basic rights of workers has been significantly undercut by Supreme Court decisions.
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In Syria specifically, the Kurds faced severe discrimination and were denied basic rights and citizenship.
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" U.S. Virgin Islands "Where loyal, patriotic Americans are second-class citizens and denied basic rights.
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The lack of those basic rights and the drug charge that followed haunt Kory Wright.
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Activists continue to fight for basic rights and recognition, both inside and outside the festival.
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The country's Supreme Court has in recent years taken steps towards recognizing their basic rights.
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No one should be denied basic rights because of their religion, race or national origin.
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Who believe that if we extend basic rights to others, our own will be diminished.
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With good leadership and good law, we can protect public health without compromising basic rights.
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The reversal of Reconstruction, and of basic rights for Southern blacks, is probably the closest.
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European officials have said Turkey still falls short of EU demands on basic rights and freedoms.
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European officials often say Turkey still falls short of EU demands on basic rights and freedoms.
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Though many Rohingya families have documentation going back generations, they are denied citizenship and basic rights.
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"I learned that African Americans were still fighting for some basic rights and equality," she says.
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We need to protect our basic rights and fight for better health care, education and jobs.
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When a police officer is charged with a criminal offense, she enjoys the same basic rights.
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Women can now access basic rights, like education and healthcare, without permission from a male guardian.
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Worst of all, they lack most of the basic rights granted to all other federal employees.
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Major News: The Senate unanimously passed legislation to establish basic rights for survivors of sexual assault.
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Skittles Rainbow Sherbet will be available in Portland this weekend and will benefit Basic Rights Oregon.
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We've tortured prisoners, assassinated American citizens, circumscribed basic rights and freedoms — all in the name security.
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They need to be seen as citizens who deserve basic rights, and not as business opportunities.
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We should redouble efforts to promote the rule of law, combat corruption, and ensure basic rights.
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" On Twitter, NetBlocks said the disruption constituted "a severe violation" of Iranians' "basic rights and liberties.
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European election monitors said the vote was marred by numerous procedural irregularities and restrictions on basic rights.
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Tribal customs, domineering male relatives and lingering religious conservatism keep many Saudi women from accessing basic rights.
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During the emergency rule, the president will be able to issue decrees on basic rights and freedoms.
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The kind that punishes its people for thinking, that prevents its citizens from exercising their basic rights?
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And while they're still fighting for basic rights, we here in the West, we have our rights.
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To some American lawmakers, the episode amounted to China undermining one of America's basic rights: free speech.
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You know, the speedy trial is one of the basic elements, basic rights of any human being.
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"We are seriously undermining our credibility when it comes to upholding basic rights and freedoms," he added.
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For years, the United States has struggled to guarantee basic rights for those put in harm's way.
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It should come as no surprise that these basic rights are being abused in ICE detention facilities.
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But the religious objections of a boss do not supersede the importance of basic rights for women.
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In no other circumstances do we grant basic rights, equality, and access based on a person's physical health.
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She has basic rights and every privilege so many of her own co-workers can only hope for.
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They believed that even a deeply flawed democracy was better than a regime where basic rights are suspended.
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We are working on reforming our judicial system to ensure the basic rights of all citizens are protected.
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Erdogan's opponents say the changes would push Turkey towards one-man rule and erode basic rights and freedoms.
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Sometimes called "nowhere people" or "legal ghosts", they are often deprived of basic rights and vulnerable to exploitation.
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The goal is restoring open internet protections for all, to ensure basic rights needed for a healthy democracy.
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The third longest-serving member of the Senate, he fought for basic rights of health for all Americans.
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North Korea, on the other hand, throughout the Kim dynasty has deprived its people of all basic rights.
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If the dignity of work is to be protected, then the basic rights of workers must be upheld.
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Hopefully, this package of legislation will help level the playing field and give some basic rights to restaurants.
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"We did not feel the need to ask for authorization over basic rights of self-defense," one said.
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Opponents see it as another step toward one-man rule that would likely erode basic rights and freedoms.
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The system assumes that people born outside our borders are less deserving of basic rights than those inside.
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Cuts to social services considered basic rights precipitated a "desacralisation of the authorities", argues Mikhail Vinogradov, a political analyst.
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And far too often, these workers say they are being treated terribly and denied basic rights on the job.
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After the rally, she said in a brief interview that struggles for basic rights usually start small and grow.
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"One, if you're not in jail you should still have your basic rights," someone answers about one second later.
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It recognizes that sometimes people's most basic rights are violated at home and they need a place to flee.
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Omar said people were sick of spending their lives asking for favours or begging officials for their basic rights.
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Acknowledge that right now, only members of one nation enjoy basic rights, while members of the other lack any.
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As a freedom-loving country, we must stand with the Iranian people who are courageously fighting for basic rights.
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Every day we inch towards a war-time era revocation of civil liberties that could restrict our basic rights.
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"We want the very basic rights: Electricity, water, employment, and medicine, and nothing else," said Mohammed Jassim, a protester.
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Omar said people were sick of spending their lives asking for favors or begging officials for their basic rights.
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This means investing in solutions that meet the basic standards of basic rights and minimize unnecessary pain and suffering.
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"We did not feel the need to ask for authorization over basic rights of self defense," the official said.
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"One of the most basic rights afforded to American citizens is the right to due process," the letter begins.
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But there, as across the Balkans, they continue to lack basic rights to housing and public services, says the ERRC.
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But we will not prioritize their comfort over our self-worth or a relationship with them over our basic rights.
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They say the emergency brake is a temporary (seven years) and proportionate limitation to basic rights, in line with treaties.
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An estimated 100,000 live in internment camps inside Myanmar, without basic rights to citizenship, worship, marry or even an education.
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Women have taken to the streets and to national legislatures to assert their basic rights to live violence-free lives.
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It enshrines the basic rights of all South Africans to equality before the law, regardless of race, gender or sexuality.
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Since 1982, when they were stripped of citizenship, the Rohingya have been considered a stateless people denied their basic rights.
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All employees have basic rights in the workplace, including the right to a work environment free from discrimination and harassment.
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"A lack of these procedures [for updating an old passport] leads to trans people being denied basic rights," Tolu says.
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Activists have raised concerns that, if approved, the new rules could violate basic rights and be misused to target minorities.
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Moreover, according to Churchill, the needs of the people were beyond mere sustenance; security necessitated more than merely basic rights.
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Perhaps Lahren thought her status gave her a little more freedom to speak her mind and assert her basic rights.
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But too often Washington has merely accepted the government's hollow pledges to uphold basic rights, when in fact little changes.
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All branches of the government should be guarding the regulatory processes from forces that try to undermine people's basic rights.
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Shias and Sunnis — two sects of Islam usually at odds — are now fighting and painting for the same basic rights.
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What were the detention camps during World War II but the racist muting of Japanese-Americans and their basic rights?
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But turning those basic rights into realities still proves challenging, as does avoiding indirectly punishing a child for her parent's actions.
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U.N. officials say they believe the group was executed on orders from top government officials in violation of their basic rights.
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"I was raised a Republican, but I just can't imagine supporting a party that doesn't support women's basic rights," Lawrence said.
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But is this kind of ostentatious activism actually helpful to a minority group whose basic rights have been called into question?
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We have on the one hand an institution — the government of Honduras — that is constantly violating these rights, [our] basic rights.
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Equal-rights proponents are adamant that the basic rights of minorities should not be subject to a vote by the majority.
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"We're not asking for special rights, we're asking for the same basic rights we're all promised," they say in the video.
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The Muslim Rohingya face official and social discrimination in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, which denies most of them citizenship and basic rights.
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For decades, the Muslim minority in a largely Buddhist country has been denied citizenship, rendered stateless, and stripped of basic rights.
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Updating personal documents to reflect name and gender changes is critical to reducing discrimination, Basic Rights Oregon said in a statement.
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Recently enacted statutes explicitly aimed at protecting fetal life have resulted in women's basic rights being held in abeyance throughout pregnancy.
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We urge all nations to publicly support the Iranian people and their demands for basic rights and an end to corruption.
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Failure to acknowledge the basic rights of the people of North Korea could have far-reaching implications for millions of people.
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The oppression of the Rohingya, who are deprived of basic rights, including citizenship and freedom to worship and marry, is appalling.
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What the Constitution ensures is that our basic rights may not be denied by the government absent due process of law.
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Next on Congress' agenda should be immediately granting TSA Officers the same basic rights at work as every other federal employee.
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They preceded from a bedrock belief that good design and humane urban planning are basic rights, not privileges for the rich.
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However, in February, the university deemed that there had been a violation of Litte's "basic rights," and the charges were dropped.
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"Only a strong Europe can force platform giants like Facebook and Google to respect our rules and basic rights," he said.
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Liberals retort that a repressive government ignoring vast income disparity and curbing basic rights should be worried about history repeating itself.
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Putin is strong, they seem to be saying, be like Putin, ignoring his history of murder and suppression of basic rights.
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He made us look at ourselves and question how we could continue trying to justify withholding basic rights to other Americans.
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It's exciting to watch people of all ages take to the streets to demand what they see are their basic rights.
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Restoring the basic rights of the people is crucial to allowing Venezuela to stay within the hemisphere's group of democratic nations.
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Lahore High Court Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah passed the order, issuing directives to enforce the transgender community's basic rights.
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"Over and over again, the Trump administration has made clear its disdain for the basic rights of transgender Americans," Schneiderman said.
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These young people are globally aware, socially connected and fully cognizant that their home countries lack economic opportunities and basic rights.
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Women have been deprived of their basic rights and reproductive freedoms, with most serving as "handmaids" to powerful men and their wives.
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But right now, women, they have to fight for their basic rights but they still have more than 60 percent of university.
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"We were looking for ways to unite women who dare not say anything against obvious violations of their basic rights," she explains.
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She mourned the dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, which she said had worked to guarantee basic rights for garment workers.
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The headwinds from outside of California could threaten the basic rights of so many families, like the one I grew up in.
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And the taxpayer-funded pipeline of cash continues flowing to companies that ship good American jobs overseas and violate workers' basic rights.
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Otherwise, they will be eroded as our expectations change, as we're desensitized to the notion that our basic rights are not inalienable.
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I am subjected to violence and beatings and am denied the most basic rights, including the ability to go to a hospital.
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"It is critically important that the next Attorney General be committed to defending basic rights and moving away from failed drug war policies."
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In India, while a community of transgender people (hijras) are revered on certain religious occasions, a vast majority are still denied basic rights.
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Pepsi has an answer for the millions of Americans fearful that the Trump Administration might take away their basic rights and crucial services.
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It is one of the few countries, along with New Zealand and Israel, that doesn't have a codified constitution to protect basic rights.
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Freedom of speech and expression, Freedom of religion, Freedom of the press.... It is these basic rights which have always made America Great.
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The compromise takes basic rights from LGBTQ citizens and gives access to accommodations that never should have been denied in the first place.
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Once they have citizenship, they then have the basic rights of any other citizen of that country — like owning a passport, Katz said.
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But I'd urge them to consider their party's long-term interests: Opposing basic rights for large and growing groups is not so smart.
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Byrnes was a forward thinker who relied on backward techniques; he believed that basic rights were suspended in solving — and preventing — a crime.
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Residents were denied basic rights like access to lawyers or normal trials, and collective punishment for the crimes of an individual was common.
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The Rohingya, who are Muslims in a primarily Buddhist nation, are denied basic rights, including citizenship, freedom of worship and freedom of travel.
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More and more of us are out there, in the world, proclaiming our dignity, demanding our basic rights — in short, living our lives.
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Conversely, a visit to Cuba signals your support for a ruthless dictatorship that has denied Cubans their basic rights for far too long.
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Palestinians live without a full set of basic rights, their ability to move freely constrained, and their hopes for the future repeatedly stymied.
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They described such measures as violations of basic rights, as a threat to public health and as an obstacle to achieving development goals.
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Sometimes called "legal ghosts", stateless people are deprived of basic rights from education to employment and vulnerable to exploitation, violence and arbitrary detention.
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Just over a decade ago, women lived under practical house arrest in Afghanistan, denied even their most basic rights by the Taliban regime.
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Among basic rights for homeless people, the proposed bill would strip the ban on urban camping instituted in 2012 by the Denver City Council.
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It can be notoriously difficult and often re-traumatizing to prove a victim's basic rights were violated by police, even with multiple witnesses present.
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I hope that within my lifetime, women no longer have to take risks for the basic rights of being able to watch a match.
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Earlier on Wednesday, Erdogan said he hoped Trump's victory would lead to "beneficial steps" for the Middle East and for basic rights and freedoms.
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To Cubans themselves he was a dictator who impoverished the country, jailed and killed thousands of dissidents, and stripped citizens of their basic rights.
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Child's rights campaigners say ensuring every child's birth is registered is crucial to protecting their basic rights and access to healthcare, education and justice.
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It's absolutely galling that they refuse to afford the people who make that money for them even the most basic rights, pay and respect.
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The purges have "little to do with respect for due process and basic rights", says Sezgin Tanrikulu, an opposition parliamentarian and human rights-lawyer.
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Battles between Buddhists and Muslims, who have been denied basic rights, including citizenship, broke out four years ago in the western state of Rakhine.
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"But there is always a portion of people who are too intransigent to understand such basic rights, even in a democratic country like Spain."
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These agreements do not state that a people may be denied basic rights if far-away powers feel the timing isn't right for them.
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We need our leaders in Congress to fight for our rights and liberties, and reject any nominee who puts our basic rights at risk.
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We are only one justice away from losing our most basic rights, and the next president will appoint as many as four new justices.
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The lawsuit against the Catalan ban claimed that it breached basic rights — both to work and to be entertained — enshrined in the Spanish Constitution.
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A right to love would always have been a dream, but in the present climate in India, even basic rights are out of reach.
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And there is no value more fundamental to American culture, or to the work of its laws, than the protection of such basic rights.
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Editorial Myanmar has long persecuted the country's Rohingya Muslim minority, denying it basic rights to citizenship, to marry, to worship and to an education.
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Hong Kong, which is known for its independent judiciary and strong rule of law, has long been a bastion of basic rights in Asia.
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In industries like domestic work where workers still lack basic rights like a minimum wage, it's especially hard to identify and root out exploitation.
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Meanwhile, the DOJ is imposing quotas on immigration judges — the same judges who will now have to explain to detainees about their basic rights.
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"If the bill becomes a reality, this would harm the public's basic rights," said opposition Democratic Party leader Wu Chi-wai in a statement.
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Judge Kavanaugh has a history of ruling in favor of employers at the expense of employees -- undercutting their basic rights and even their safety.
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After all, basic rights of citizenship, like suffrage and equal treatment, were denied certain racial groups for a hundred years after the 14th Amendment.
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An open letter with his name on it, published on a Kurdish website, said he was protesting the lack of basic rights for prisoners.
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We recognize that when individuals cannot rely on the justice system to protect their most basic rights, they lose faith in their public institutions.
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However, news coming out of Turkey indicates these laws were often disregarded, with refugees denied access to health care, education, and other basic rights.
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But a confederation is consistent with the ideas of equality, symmetry, economic viability and recognition of the basic rights asserted by each of the parties.
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Residents on military bases often lacked basic rights renters can rely on in civilian communities, such as the ability to withhold rent from derelict landlords.
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But basic rights to free expression and protest are tightly controlled, and candidates who are seen as too subversive are barred from running for office.
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"I filed the petition because I thought the ban undermined basic rights such as the right to profession," Selvagomathy said by telephone from southern India.
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"The degrading treatment of this individual is the latest example of a major U.S. airline disrespecting passengers and denying them their basic rights," Blumenthal said.
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"It's exciting to see Oregon's Department of Motor Vehicles adopt this change," Nancy Haque, co-executive director of Basic Rights Oregon, said in a statement.
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"There's a lot of basic rights that we as gay people don't have that a lot of Americans do and take for granted," said Ted.
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Only when steps are taken to address these issues and people finally feel secure in their own basic rights may extremist groups start losing ground.
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The Rohingya in Myanmar, Muslims in a primarily Buddhist land, are denied basic rights, including citizenship, freedom of worship, education, marriage and freedom of travel.
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Unions have allied themselves with other progressive organizations to protect Americans' basic rights and to address the threat of climate change and other environmental challenges.
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Instead, our elected representatives should be working towards creating a future that safeguards abortion care, upholds basic rights and justice and respects our decision-making.
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Having the ability to carry out these directives are our basic rights, and building the institutions that produce this happiness is God's work on Earth.
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But keep in mind, you also have to be really fucking sick and desperate enough to trade your basic rights just to access a plant.
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The companies instead claim they are independent contractors, which frees the companies to deny them some of the basic rights and benefits that workers enjoy.
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Figures like Peterson or Lindsay Sheperd will pose human rights discussions as one with two sides, rather than accepting that all people deserve basic rights.
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The Rohingya are a largely Muslim ethnic group who mainly live in Rakhine State in western Myanmar, where they face severe restrictions on basic rights.
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The attorney also noted that the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld the basic rights of all people present in the U.S. despite any immigration status.
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But I think the real challenge for the women's movement is to reach out to women across the globe who are fighting for basic rights.
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The report calls for a more "human economy" where markets are better managed in order to ensure no one is left out or denied basic rights.
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The courts have been criticized by lawyers and families of defendants for denying basic rights, and some are challenging the courts' rulings through the civilian judiciary.
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While the Right to Pee campaign may initially seem funny or frivolous, it's ultimately about granting women their basic rights in the 21st-century urban space.
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Supporters however say rigid regulatory obligations protect incumbents and hinder digital startups which offer looser arrangements to workers looking for more flexibility, albeit without basic rights.
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When it comes to automated and insidious invasions of our personal lives and most basic rights, tech lobbyists and politicians sell a calculated brand of cynicism.
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Your employees and your customers expect better, as do millions and millions of Americans who support America's promotion of basic rights and dignity around the world.
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" On protests in Iran: "We support them giving basic rights to the people of Iran and we support them stopping being a state sponsor of terror.
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Cruz had previously expressed his opposition to the act on the grounds that its birth control mandates violated "the basic rights of everyone." proud wacko bird!
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There are people in every community who are standing up for the basic rights that everyone -- regardless of orientation or creed -- should be able to enjoy.
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Despite years of effort to advance women's basic rights and build a government that protects them, they largely are still treated as little more than property.
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Instead of calling the ban a violation of basic rights, for example, Kalanick framed it as a detriment to local business with some unfortunate human collateral.
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The Rohingya are members of a predominantly Muslim ethnic group that have long faced discrimination and loss of basic rights in Myanmar, a majority Buddhist nation.
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And female politicians looking for basic rights—such as the ability to breastfeed at work—are often shut down or humiliated online or by their peers.
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Nearly all Rohingya have been denied citizenship since 1982, effectively rendering the group stateless, and they are also denied freedom of movement and other basic rights.
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Companies have successfully argued that changes that would degrade users' experience or force them to write new code, essentially a form of speech, would violate basic rights.
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They operate in the gig economy, where many people work for different firms without a fixed contract, and are self-employed, entitling them to only basic rights.
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With the U.S. at a major political crossroads, and women finding themselves still fighting for basic rights, taking action and seeking change has never been more critical.
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You can bet I'll be marching right alongside them, continuing to travel around the country advocating for the basic rights and health care that all people deserve.
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Violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people is common and politicians have long tried to pass legislation that denies basic rights to the LGBT community.
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In recent months, however, Golinger has increasingly criticized the policies of Chavez's successor, Nicolas Maduro, who she says has trampled basic rights and let corruption run rampant.
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The signs and chants of the peaceful protesters demanding basic rights and fair elections are met with tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons and even sniper fire.
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"The anti-terror law is being used to curtail dissent and that infringes on the basic rights and freedoms in the constitution," Amnesty International's Ilaria Allegrozzi said.
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Now the country's more than 1 million Rohingya live largely without basic rights, most of them in the western state of Rakhine and many in squalid camps.
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But the military junta espoused a xenophobic, Bamar-supremacist ideology, and, in the following decades, the Rohingya were systematically demonized, many of them stripped of basic rights.
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Far more important are basic rights to equal a man's, like the right not to need a male guardian's permission to set foot out of the house.
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Activists say the jailing of the prayer leaders is a reminder that Muslims across the Southeast Asian nation face forms of discrimination and curbs on basic rights.
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Even in the 90s, it was hard to imagine a world in which black people's preferences, not just their basic rights, would be respected in public spaces.
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To honor Mr. Mandela, we must remember him as a man — one of millions of incarcerated men and women separated from their families and denied basic rights.
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This would represent a massive shift in the number of Americans who expect government to protect their basic rights and would be a significant degradation of democracy.
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In the United States, the rights of a "person" is defined by the 14th Amendment, guarantee the basic rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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This depiction presented a dehumanized image of African Americans, who at the time were disenfranchised and denied basic rights under racial caste systems like Jim Crow laws.
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Aaja Chemnitz Larsen, a member of the Danish parliament representing Greenland, reckons these popular basic rights would be "completely obliterated" if the US were to take over.
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The president should speak out forcefully in defense of women's basic rights and push back against those who would dishonestly attack the basic right to bodily autonomy.
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This neglect by the government came in the face of people who merely sought to exercise their basic rights to secure a lawyer to defend their property.
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Seeing works by Congo the chimp takes us from wild aesthetic conjectures to sobering ethical dilemmas around animal agency, art ownership, and basic rights of living creatures.
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"This is about basic rights of individual expression, and instilling fear of such draconian punishment based on ambiguous definitions, will retard our society," he wrote on Instagram.
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"We want the very basic rights: Electricity, water, employment, and medicine, and nothing else," Mohammed Jassim, a protester, told the Associated Press after the October 1 demonstrations.
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"Look at the council membership, and you see an appalling disrespect for the most basic rights," said Haley, citing Venezuela, China, Cuba and Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Both Olivares and Gelernt believe that the system denies basic rights to Spanish-speaking asylum seekers as well, but that difficulties are exacerbated for Mayan-language speakers.
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People retain the same basic rights and dignity regardless of who they are and whether they're in their home countries or seeking economic or physical security elsewhere.
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The women we have brought to our stage to tell their stories are living proof that feminism is a movement of basic rights for all human beings.
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Turkey, on the other hand, has contributed to the problem by denying Kurds many basic rights, attempting to assimilate them, and oppressing their cultural identity and language.
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And the team at Basic Rights (which has just finished designing this year's spring collection) became purveyors of perfect made-in-Thailand tees and high-waisted trousers.
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Citizenship experts say such laws can fuel statelessness, potentially depriving people of basic rights such as education, health care, housing and employment, and leaving them vulnerable to exploitation.
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Anti-immigrationists stress that one of the most basic rights of every human collective is to defend itself against invasion, whether in the form of armies or migrants.
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"We're in survival mode now, because so many basic rights we've fought for for a really long time are being threatened," Cox said, according to Pret-a-Reporter.
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Jobs Leadsom once said small businesses shouldn't have to offer basic rights to their workers, including minimum wage, maternity or paternity rights, unfair dismissal rights, or pension rights.
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Trans people make up less than 1 percent of the population in the United States, and our basic rights are still up for discussion at the national level.
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A few weeks ago, we covered Maritza Lugo and Danielle Sepulveres' series portraying Disney princesses as women in Trump's America being denied basic rights such as health care.
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"Indonesian police are again violating the basic rights of LGBT people by invading their privacy," Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said after one raid.
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"Rest assured that the Duterte administration respects the law and upholds the basic rights of our people, regardless of beliefs and political persuasion," he said in a statement.
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This will be the story of Trump's presidency as it pertains to everyday Americans: The extremely rich getting richer, while the less fortunate lose basic rights and protections.
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" Ro Nay San Lwin, a European-based Rohingya activist, told CNN that Bangladesh should not send any citizens back to Myanmar "unless citizenship and basic rights are guaranteed.
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And yet all these narratives emphasizing our authenticity did little to protect us last Sunday, when those in power appeared determined to strip us of our basic rights.
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In return they're placed on a pedestal to be "cherished and revered," as Speaker Paul D. Ryan has said about women, but all the while denied basic rights.
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Let there be no ambiguity on this: If you are violating the basic rights of immigrants, now or in the future, a Warren Administration will hold you accountable.
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This legislation will make sure that Chinese authorities responsible for their mistreatment, and for the mistreatment of other Americans, know that such denial of basic rights is unacceptable.
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Conditions in the prisons have worsened and some inmates are not receiving certain basic rights such as showers, three meals a day, family visits and access to lawyers.
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And historians say it transformed the 14th Amendment, which was designed to protect the basic rights of newly freed slaves, into a weapon to boost the power of corporations.
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It is only against the backdrop of accepting our country's broken history that we can then attempt to repair and rectify and restore basic rights stripped from human beings.
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Their decision to move forward with the referendum shows just how far tech companies are willing to go to avoid government regulation — and to avoid giving workers basic rights.
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"Child marriage starts a cycle of disadvantage that denies girls the most basic rights to learn, develop and be children," said Save the Children International CEO Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
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Prosecuting people for conscientious objection and sending them to prison, the judges said this time, violated basic rights and went against the spirit of "liberal democracy, tolerance and magnanimity".
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That we don't already have these basic rights to know how our personal information is used in federal elections is symbolic of the disturbingly exploitative state of data regulation.
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Voting, even to this day, is not guaranteed like other basic rights, such as freedom of speech, or the right to petition, or the right to a jury trial.
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Speaking through a translator, Schulz said the two sides had not agreed on all issues during the talks in Ankara on Thursday and that Turkey must protect basic rights.
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It is time for the people who only want the same basic rights as any other citizen to finally be treated as they deserve: with fairness, acceptance and respect.
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An Fengshan, spokesman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, said the "228 Incident" was a "just action" by people in Taiwan against dictatorship and to fight for their basic rights.
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Critics of the constitution complain that it fails to guarantee basic rights such as public healthcare, is not representative of modern Chile and does not promote a participatory democracy.
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She cited the example of migrant domestic helpers who are commonly employed in Malaysian households to do cleaning and cooking but many of whom are denied their basic rights.
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The reporters might argue, as Professor Schulhofer has in his published work, that people's basic rights to autonomy and personal security are threatened by the current state of affairs.
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Following strict interpretation of the Quran, it stripped women of the most basic rights: singing alone in public, riding a bicycle, and leaving the country without their husbands' permission.
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"The Myanmar government is trying to destroy the Rohingya people through an administrative process that effectively strips them of basic rights," said Matthew Smith, the group's chief executive officer.
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When they were toppled and hunted down, the Taliban were an oppressive regime, denying citizens basic rights, including keeping women and girls out of school and behind house walls.
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Some countries, like Hungary, have overtly embraced an old-style national identity, with leaders championing the ethnic origins of the state, warning darkly of foreigners and curtailing basic rights.
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"This is a far-reaching attack and attempt to take away women's basic rights and reproductive rights, period," said Dawn Laguens, the group's executive vice president and chief executive.
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In fact, in areas of Afghanistan still controlled by the Taliban, women continue to be mistreated and deprived of basic rights -- such as education and work outside the home.
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Although South Korea has made strides in democratizing and improving basic rights in recent decades, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have been largely left out, rights groups said.
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Although McCrory later walked his statement back, the message he sent was clear: the actual experiences of transgender people have no place in a debate over their basic rights.
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While some of these protests had violent elements -- mostly in reaction to heavy-handed clampdowns -- the majority were peaceful and driven by a demand for basic rights and dignity.
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Democracy is fundamentally about protecting the middle and lower classes from redistribution by establishing the equality of basic rights that makes it possible for everyone to be a capitalist.
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Violence roils as Synths find themselves fighting for not only basic rights but their very survival, against those who view them as less than human and as a dangerous threat.
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But in the era of Women's Marches and campaigns like #MeToo and #TimesUp, as women continue to fight for their basic rights, struggling with low self-esteem is downright exhausting.
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We all have a huge amount of work to do, investigating wrongdoing, holding power accountable, enabling decent government, defending basic rights, actually covering the world -- Russia, Syria, North Korean nukes.
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"We want our most basic rights to personal safety, civil rights and urban order," former classmates of Mr Lei at the prestigious Renmin University in Beijing wrote in a petition.
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The package was backed by Republicans as a way to free companies from red tape, and by some Democrats as a way guarantee some basic rights to gig-economy workers.
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In an annual report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein also took democracies to task for failing to respect basic rights.
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They are often released with little more than some spare change, a bus ticket and a criminal record that bars access to some of their most basic rights and privileges.
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Wade, and do what they can to appoint Supreme Court justices who share their worldview—one where women don't deserve basic rights and should even be punished for exercising them.
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However, more reflective despots learn that denial of basic rights and the naked seizure of property can destroy opponents — one by one if need be — just as effectively over time.
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"Partner with them, or support them financially, or work out a licensing deal," suggests Brook Shelley, Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Turbine Labs and co-chair for Basic Rights Oregon.
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Yet, if the original version of events proves to be true, it will be a chilling continuation of the long history of disrespecting Indians and denying them their basic rights.
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The strategy would not require certification at the state or federal level, and it could be formalized through a memorandum of understanding setting forth the basic rights of the parties.
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The legislation published on Wednesday follows years of global scrutiny over abuse of Thai and migrant workers and mandates basic rights such as social security, medical care and rest periods.
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It is all but certain to be challenged in federal court, but immigrant rights lawyers said it could undermine the basic rights of people seeking safety in the United States.
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The victims of violence and persecution get top priority, then those being systemically denied their basic rights because their country has become a failed state, then those seeking economic betterment.
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It reminds us that freedom of religion is in a constant struggle with fear of the other, that basic rights are never secure, but are only upheld by constant vigilance.
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After rejecting basic rights to Republicans during the House Judiciary Committee and House Intelligence Committee hearings, Democrats are now demanding the witness and adversarial rights that they denied the minority.
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"Your transparent rush to judgment, lack of democratically accountable authorization, and violation of basic rights in the current proceedings make clear the illegitimate, partisan purpose" of the inquiry, he said.
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"For now, many women in the region continue to face limitations of basic rights, including for divorce, inheritance, asset ownership, access to justice and freedom of movement," WEF pointed out.
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The reality, though, is that the needs and basic rights of people with disabilities aren't being considered at all, a problem this population has experienced for a very long time.
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These common abuses have had a lasting economic impact as companies move from Canada and the United States to take advantage of workers who lack basic rights and are underpaid.
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The Magna Carta, in which English nobles negotiated a few basic rights for themselves in the 13th century, is considered a foundation stone of the democracy that emerged centuries later.
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He's been living in limbo ever since — too scared to return to his home country of Eritrea and denied even the most basic rights afforded to refugees living in Uganda.
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Countries gain points based on the freedom of their elections, respect for basic rights like freedom of speech, the quality of their independent press, and other core liberal democratic rights.
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The state's Office of Vital Records must still develop the new forms, according to Basic Rights Oregon, the state's largest advocacy group for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
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"We are extremely pleased that Indiana's attempt to violate women's basic rights has been thwarted," Ken Falk, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, said in a statement.
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That's why the judge finds the process so abhorrent — the impact may not be huge, but when it's people's basic rights, the effect doesn't have to be big to be deplorable.
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It voiced trust in Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's ability to manage this "internal matter", but also called for dialogue and reminded Madrid of a need to respect citizens' basic rights.
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The state's Office of Vital Records must still develop the new forms, according to Basic Rights Oregon, the state's largest advocacy group for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
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The legislation merges the lawless tribal area with the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bringing it into mainstream politics and giving its residents basic rights, such as the right to a trial.
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"Our activities for our legitimate rights are ongoing against the Burmese terrorist government and its genocidal military," the group's statement said, adding that attacks would continue until basic rights were restored.
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Fortunately for the public, the VA and the veterans they serve, VA employees have basic rights and protections offered through their union contract and the Civil Service Reform Act of 28503.
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He is currently attempting to slash funding to the Environmental Protection Agency, which is responsible for ensuring that Americans are afforded the basic rights of access to clean air and water.
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Sometimes referred to as "legal ghosts", stateless people are not recognized as nationals by any country and as such, they are deprived of the basic rights most people take for granted.
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Furthermore, the ambitious economic and social reforms underway in Saudi Arabia are unlikely to produce sustainable results with sufficient political legitimacy if the basic rights of Saudi people are not respected.
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At a Summit of the Americas in Lima this month, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Cuba's "tired Communist regime" denied its people basic rights, then walked out of the gathering.
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It said that since accepting 237 out of 300 recommendations at its last review in 2014, Egyptian authorities, had "adopted even more repressive measures that further restricted basic rights and freedoms".
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Research shows that rule of law — including clear and transparent laws, protection of basic rights, responsive and accountable government, and efficient and impartial dispute resolution mechanisms — correlates closely to economic prosperity.
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We women of color still fight for our basic rights as human beings, and we welcome the support of our white sisters to help us, as our ancestors have helped them.
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They are our attempt to cry out to the world that it must wake up, that there are people here fighting for their most basic rights... We deserve to live, too.
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"Sexual assault remains one of the most underreported crimes and I hope that these basic rights will encourage more survivors to come forward and pursue justice," Shaheen said in a statement.
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"Federal and state laws guarantee certain basic rights to all residents of this facility and they include the right to a dignified existence and to be treated with dignity," it said.
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Clinton's unquestioning partisanship vis-à-vis Israel, embarrassing pandering to its supporters, and deliberate ignorance of basic rights for Palestinians upsets and alienates many of us, and not just Arab Americans.
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Brown, it seems, is ignorant of the very basic rights his office affords him as a duly elected senator, which includes the ability to begin consideration of any bill he wants.
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However, we need a permanent, legislative remedy that codifies broad corrections to the tax code by adhering to our Constitution and putting an end to the violation of these basic rights.
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"I was obsessed with playing music and drinking and just doing everything but studying," says Cowan, guitarist for rock quintet the Vaccines and founder of minimalist men's wear brand Basic Rights.
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A world where undocumented children risk deportation, where the poorest members of society are denied basic rights and where the color of your skin can make you a target for violence.
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It can make dating difficult, as many women do not understand how they could classify themselves as Christian, when the Church so clearly doesn't accept certain basic rights for lesbian women.
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The United States is the world's wealthiest nation, but when it comes to basic rights like paid leave and health care, its workers are far behind those in other advanced industrial nations.
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But there are few who understand the danger of Trump based on his authoritarianism, of the true threat he poses to our country's system of government and ultimately to our basic rights.
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"The United States supports the Iranian people and calls on the regime to respect its citizens' basic rights to peacefully express their desire for change," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters.
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But over the past several years we have seen across our country that RFRA has been used as a tool to impose one's religion on another, or infringe on another's basic rights.
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Despite greater wealth across the world, millions of children still languish in poverty and are trafficked, exploited, forced to flee their homes due to conflict and denied basic rights, including an education.
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In the 12 months following the violent coup attempt in July 2016, the human rights situation in Turkey has been in freefall and people have had many of their basic rights crushed.
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"I hope that this choice of the American people will lead to beneficial steps being taken for the world concerning basic rights and freedoms, democracy and developments in our region," he said.
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Stories like Ahmad Hussain's are common among Malaysia's refugees, where years of waiting without basic rights is causing mental health issues and leaving many turning to underground work, where they risk abuse.
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"We just felt that the visual of the 'Handmaid's Tale' costumes, a society in which women in Gilead are stripped of their most basic rights and their humanity, was appropriate," Goldman said.
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On Monday, Ms. Tsai announced that she would lead a commission to address the injustices faced by indigenous groups and said that she would push through a law outlining their basic rights.
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As the Trump administration and its religious right allies push an exclusionary view of religious freedom, let's be clear about the dangers their agenda represents for the basic rights of everyday Americans.
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The enforcement of Sharia in Aceh has "had a chilling effect on the basic rights to security and freedom of expression for Aceh's deeply marginalized LGBT community," according to a HRW report.
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It's deeply unsettling (perhaps even related) that, in the midst of this sexual wellness revolution, we're seeing a vicious legal backlash trying to take women's basic rights over their own bodies away.
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"During the last four months, no changes have been initiated in Belarus to alter the oppressive laws and practices, while numerous cases of new violations of basic rights have emerged," said Haraszti.
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It establishes basic rights for defendants, like the presumption of innocence and the provision of a lawyer, and excludes confessions from court unless a defence attorney was present when they were given.
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" Greer told The Hill she is concerned about "handing a blank check to the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] to spend on technologies that pose a serious threat to peoples' basic rights.
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Or, better yet, why not pretend that the news media is a scaffold upon which our basic rights are framed and support it just as you would support any other beneficent organization?
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But democracy as a political system draws its legitimacy from respecting basic rights and procedural fairness, rather than from achieving concrete results; a failure of performance does not endanger the system itself.
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China may brutalize Buddhists in Tibet and Muslims in Xinjiang, while denying basic rights to the rest of its 1.3 billion citizens, but "woke" activists pushing intersectionality keep mum on all that.
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While states can spend their local tax revenue differently on infrastructure and have different tax rates, there are some basic rights that should be assured to all citizens of all the states.
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Future Forward's spokeswoman said they did not notify authorities because the rally was based on basic rights, while police said that the failure to do so was a breach of the law.
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It's the same basic playbook, a culture war narrative paired with a try-anything-once legislative approach that, if and when it works, will have devastating consequences for all Americans' basic rights.
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The country has witnessed rising tensions amid protests from Oromo groups in the Oromiya region, and a crackdown from the government which, human rights groups say, has suppressed basic rights and freedoms.
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It turned basic rights that should be guaranteed under international law — including some painfully secured through previous hunger strikes — into privileges its prison service decides to grant us or deprive us of.
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"The only logic for keeping this hated ban in place for so long is that, if this ban fell, women would insist on other basic rights - and they absolutely should," she added.
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By barring national enforcement of basic rights, the Supreme Court set the legal basis for a century of lynching, intimidation and impunity that destroyed democracy in the states of the former confederacy.
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"We demand respect because it is granted by law... the cabin crews demand their basic rights and not even the vile threat of shutting the Portuguese hubs scares us," the union said.
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But it does matter that we all recognize that this is an attack on our basic rights to information about what the U.S. government does in our names and with our tax dollars.
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Added to the work, it is almost like they are living in a bygone era, a time not only without electricity and running water, but also a time without basic rights and freedoms.
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That man, known as Ata Ullah, featured prominently in a series of videos released online in October and November detailing the group's stated mission, which is simply to restore basic rights to Rohingya.
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With dairy economies down and farmers' children being forced to choose other work, undocumented immigrants, often with little to no understanding of their basic rights, now represent 60% of all farm labor nationwide.
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"We are appreciative of the countries that take us in, but the ultimate dream is to be able to go back to Myanmar and be recognised as citizens with basic rights," he said.
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Some of the major challenges include a lack of public awareness of their basic rights and entitlements, the limited reach of institutions providing legal aid and too few courts and judges, say activists.
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The hunger strike is a way of "bringing prisoners closer to their basic rights and demands and preventing the occupation from harming the dignity of the Palestinian prisoners," he said in a statement.
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Opposition leaders, who say the years of socialism under Hugo Chavez and then Maduro have wrecked Venezuela's economy and stamped on basic rights, accuse the election board of being in the government's pocket.
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Kuwait's acting oil minister Anas al-Saleh on Monday called oil sector workers to return to work, stressing that the reforms would not impact their basic rights, their salaries, gratuity and additional benefits.
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Rouhani's supporters also expect him to fight for basic rights that affect their daily lives, like preventing security forces from harassing women for the way they dress or the judiciary from cancelling concerts.
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President Trump would do well to remember, even in the midst of heightened diplomacy on North Korea, that governments which trample on the basic rights of their own citizens are unreliable international partners.
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"Tubman played a critical role in some of the most significant efforts in our country's history to ensure the basic rights of all Americans," wrote Cummings and Katko in a June 6 letter.
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"People who are being displaced from their land, people who are being killed for asking for their basic rights, I'm very happy to stand in front of you as their voice," he said.
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The hunger strike is a way of "bringing prisoners closer to their basic rights and demands and preventing the occupation from harming the dignity of the Palestinian prisoners," he said in a statement.
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"People want some basic rights," said Alastair Mactaggart, the 51-year-old real estate developer who has put more than $2 million of his own money to get the measure off the ground.
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The Rohingya are a Muslim minority that has lived for generations in Myanmar and yet has been long treated by the Buddhist majority as interlopers from Bangladesh and denied citizenship and basic rights.
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Though China has quickly developed, the West has also greatly benefited from this partnership through the exploitation of many Chinese basic rights in terms of labor, environmental damage, corruption, among other such issues.
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There are districts that the United States-led coalition considers to be under government control that don't have access to basic rights and services, like education, clean drinking water or local government representation.
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But somehow, as the definition of democracy has been handed down to us over the years, the word has come to mean the existence and exercise of a few basic rights and principles.
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Kline urged Widodo to issue a message to the "police that efforts to address the complex problems of drugs and criminality require the security forces to respect everyone's basic rights, not demolish them."
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But it also highlights how common statelessness is in their landlocked corner of Southeast Asia, an impoverished region where a lack of citizenship routinely deprives people from ethnic-minority groups of basic rights.
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" Rather, the firm's statement said that Ms. Tymoshenko "was denied basic rights under Western legal standards," was "improperly incarcerated during the trial" and that "in the West, she would receive a new trial.
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"We believe that students needed to understand their basic rights as it related to the First Amendment and as it related to free speech and the free practice of their faith," Landry explains.
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Did we really need to normalize the word "slut," or the behavior associated with it, when there was so much else at stake — especially in a country where women struggled for basic rights?
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Mr. Obama and President George W. Bush often spoke of the importance of encouraging other governments to guarantee basic rights but played down that message when it might have conflicted with other interests.
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What happened that day reinforced the fact that negotiating with immigration officers for basic rights for detained people, such as health care, privacy and dignity, has become a necessary part of our work.
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On the left, for instance, an argument continues over whether "identity politics" — or what many of us call our basic rights — are a distraction from "economic issues," which are framed as more pressing.
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In its annual report on Wednesday, Amnesty International said round-the-clock curfews had left civilians in some areas in Turkey's southeast unable to access basic rights such as food, education and medical care.
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A Palestinian state would be impossible under these conditions; Israel would in effect be asserting permanent control over Palestinian territory without granting the Palestinians basic rights like the ability to vote in Israeli elections.
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In states across the country, we're working not only to keep Trump and Congressional Republicans from rolling back the clock on our basic rights, but to expand them and give us true reproductive freedom.
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Their failure to respect the law, in letter as well as spirit, means that all too many workers continue to toil away in the absence of basic rights to which they are fully entitled.
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"The availability of affordable housing is severely threatened in the entire city of Berlin and the regulation therefore justified," said judge Rautgundes Schneidereit, rejecting an argument that the regulation violated home owners' basic rights.
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"I won't feel like a second citizen anymore and I can have the basic rights like anyone else, from as simple as having a library card to having healthcare," she told reporters by phone.
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If you're putting your life on the line to defend the most powerful military nation on Earth, then you should be entitled, whenever possible, to enjoy the same basic rights as those back home.
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Women won't be 'punished' for exercising their basic rights," she said, a dig at presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who once suggested women who get illegal abortions should face "some sort of punishment.
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The cause of this widespread denial of basic rights—the sort of derogation which, if it happened abroad, would be denounced by American diplomats—is the volatile and eccentric way those rights are subsidised.
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The Palestinians who were displaced were spurred by Arab leaders to cling to their refugee status – and were widely denied citizenship or even basic rights as residents in Arab countries where they found themselves.
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When that happens in a country under authoritarian rule, the entire public sphere is transformed into a zero-sum game between those wielding near-absolute power and those whose basic rights are in jeopardy.
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If we take it as read that public libraries exist and are good and important, then we're saying that the services they provide are basic rights that it is our government's responsibility to safeguard.
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"That Europe, which is the richest bloc in the world, is not able to take care of the basic rights of some of the most persecuted people in the world is shameful," Shetty said.
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Still, the controversy over the legislation has hardened views around the world toward Mr. Xi's China, particularly regarding the lack of judicial independence or basic rights for defendants plunged into the Chinese judicial system.
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Protection for refugees made the list because it was an urgent issue at the time and because it was seen as a way to uphold stability and basic rights amid any future humanitarian crises.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Europe's top human rights court rebuked Russia on Tuesday for multiple violations of the basic rights of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after complaining of mistreatment.
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The Rohingya have long been denied even basic rights in Myanmar, a majority Buddhist country where most people regard them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, though many have been in the country for generations.
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Another community that is clearly a target under the so-called religious liberty mantle are LGBT people, who must be afforded the same basic rights, human dignity and respect for their families as others.
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What might seem like a small administrative change sends a powerful message of inclusion at a time when transgender people are having to fight in courts, legislatures and schools for basic rights and dignity.
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Although marriage equality is important for queer couples who choose to get married, the scene speaks to the harsh reality that LGBTQ people still have to fight for basic rights like housing because of discrimination.
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Why it did so isn't immediately evident, but the irony of a nation infamous for denying basic rights to its female citizens imbuing a robotic Audrey Hepburn lookalike with rights is not lost on us.
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Britain apologised last year for its "appalling" treatment of thousands of Caribbean migrants - the "Windrush generation" - who were denied basic rights after a tightening of immigration policy, despite having lived in the country for decades.
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In it, HRW suggests that the rise of "populist leaders" in the United States and Europe, and "strongman leaders" in Russia, Turkey, the Philippines and China, pose a dangerous threat to basic rights protections globally.
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On the other hand, because of a number of terrorist threats our authorities have the right to take the necessary measures for maintaining public order and protecting the basic rights and freedoms of our citizens.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government launched a review on Wednesday into the treatment of some Caribbean migrants who were invited to Britain after World War Two but have been left without documents and denied basic rights.
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Women won't be 'punished' for exercising their basic rights," she said in a tweet, a dig at Republican candidate Donald Trump, who once suggested women who get illegal abortions should face "some sort of punishment.
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For two weeks, British ministers have been struggling to explain why some descendants of the so-called "Windrush generation", invited to Britain to plug labour shortfalls between 1948 and 1971, had been denied basic rights.
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Shame on any elected official or candidate for office who, because a Republican president might get credit for his foreign policy, withholds expressions of hope and confidence in a subjugated people's pursuit of basic rights.
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The basic rights of voters are being abridged by the champion of a shameful campaign that is being whipped up in Republican-controlled statehouses: using ID requirements to suppress voters who tend toward the Democrats.
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Americans are feeling more anxious these days, and with people growing more divided by the hour, there's no lack of reasons, especially as a woman, to feel afraid of losing basic rights, protection, and care.
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When trans youth are acknowledged by mass media, it often happens as they are fighting for their basic rights — like bathroom access, or having their correct name called during graduation — which troublingly invites further scorn.
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Like the heroine of Mr. Lelio's previous film, "Gloria" (2013), Marina insists on her own dignity — her basic rights to respect, safety and the pursuit of pleasure — in the face of condescension, indifference and contempt.
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"The escalation of the conflict since March 2015 has dramatically aggravated the protection crisis in which millions face risks to their safety and basic rights," the relief agency said in its 2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview.
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The move is likely to further worry rights groups and Turkey's Western allies, who say Ankara has sharply curtailed freedom of speech and other basic rights in the crackdown that followed last year's failed coup.
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There are an estimated 10-15 million stateless people worldwide who are not recognized as nationals of any country and are deprived of basic rights most people take for granted such as education and healthcare.
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In this environment, it's important that employers understand their basic rights and responsibilities when they encounter immigration agents so they can protect their rights and the rights of all their employees, regardless of immigration status.
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He was an unofficial ambassador for America for decades, traveling the world trying help dissidents fighting for freedom and basic rights and believing to his core that America has an obligation to use its power.
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Liberals accept that the business world operates according to the principles of property rights and free exchange, rather than the popular will, and that individuals possess basic rights that cannot be overruled by democratic diktat.
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The progressive idea here is usually that people with vastly more wealth than the common run of citizens wield vastly disproportionate political power and therefore imperil democracy and the equal worth of our basic rights.
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Britain apologized last year for its "appalling" treatment of thousands of Caribbean migrants - the "Windrush generation" - who were denied basic rights after a tightening of immigration policy, despite having lived in the country for decades.
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I never cease to be astonished that when it comes to these basic rights — family-friendly protections that are fundamental to reducing work-life stress — American workers are so far behind their counterparts in other nations.
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But people have grown impatient with calls to reach across the aisle simply for the sake of bipartisanship; those who use their power to systematically deny women and minorities their basic rights are not "decent" people.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's interior minister Amber Rudd on Monday apologized to thousands of British residents who arrived from the Caribbean decades ago and are now being denied basic rights after being incorrectly identified as illegal immigrants.
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We don't like to think about big-time college basketball as a billion-dollar industry, one that saddles the athletes we love rooting for with absurd financial restrictions, intense demands, and a lack of basic rights.
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"They are not paid minimum wages and do not enjoy basic rights such as the freedom of movement, the freedom of choice of employment and lack of right to education for their children," the study said.
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The garb, which mimicked that of the Hulu show based on a 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, was meant to invoke the fictional world where women have been stripped of virtually all of their basic rights.
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Supporters however say rigid regulatory obligations protect incumbents and hinder the entry of digital startups which offer looser work arrangements to workers in the 28-country European Union looking for more flexibility, albeit without basic rights.
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The EU executive voiced trust in Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's ability to manage this "internal matter", but also called for dialogue between the sides and reminded Madrid of a need to respect citizens' basic rights.
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But the country has not signed the landmark 1951 Refugee Convention, which spells out the legal obligations of states to protect refugees, nor does it have any domestic legislation in place to ensure their basic rights.
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"We support them giving basic rights to the people of Iran and we support them stopping being a state sponsor of terror," Sanders said when she was asked about US support for regime change in Iran.
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"My father, Ilham Tohti, has used only one weapon in his struggle for the basic rights of the Uighurs of Xinjiang: words; spoken, written, distributed and posted," Ms. Tohti said in a statement to the foundation.
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Prince Mohammed acknowledged that Saudi Arabia has been dominated by an ultraconservative interpretation of Islam that was wary of non-Muslims, deprived women of basic rights and constricted social life by banning movie theaters and music.
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"The Trump administration has been whittling away at the basic rights of women and children since they came into office," said Michelle Brané, director of the migrant rights and justice program at the Women's Refugee Commission.
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When citizens are denied a fundamental right based solely on wealth, a bedrock principle of our Constitution — that our government cannot deny poor people basic rights in our society simply because they are poor — is violated.
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While the two worlds are ruled by different norms and different ways of expressing consent, the consensus was that we all have the same basic rights to have our wishes honored—especially when it's on camera.
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I'd like to challenge state legislatures to start acting in good faith and taking common-sense measures to protect the vote while also encouraging it, rather than swindling Americans out of one of their most basic rights.
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They have a deep, chilling fear that Roe v Wade (the anniversary of which is today) will actually be overturned and they will lose control not only of their bodies but of their basic rights and destinies.
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I made this decision a long time ago, and I will not let my children grow up under the rule of a criminal who killed and displaced his people only because they demanded their most basic rights.
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President Trump could push through such a nominee, moving the court even further to the right and undermining the ability of Democrats to count on the justices to protect basic rights and keep intact key government regulations.
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It will directly impact ongoing battles over trans rights in everything from schools to public bathrooms, and will in general strip away many of the basic rights from some of America's most vulnerable and discriminated against citizens.
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British ministers have struggled for two weeks to explain why some descendants of the so-called "Windrush generation", invited to Britain from its former colonies to plug labor shortfalls between 1948 and 1971, were denied basic rights.
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"The constitution represents those basic rights," she told Reuters in Bonn, Germany, where almost 200 nations are working on ways to bolster the 2015 Paris climate agreement after President Donald Trump decided in June to pull out.
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But when a candidate's comments pointed to a potential use of torture, prohibited under the Convention against Torture, a pact ratified by Washington, or to vulnerable groups possibly losing their basic rights, he had to speak out.
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Rights activists say the proposed rules could breach basic rights like privacy and could be subject to interpretation by vigilantes, the police and courts so that a party in someone's home could be deemed a public event.
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President Tayyip Erdogan, whose relations with outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama have at times been strained, meanwhile said he hoped Trump's victory would lead to "beneficial steps" for the Middle East and for basic rights and freedoms.
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Taiwanese wariness of Beijing has also intensified in recent months because of unrest in Hong Kong, where pro-democracy protesters say a "one nation, two systems" formula in place since 1997 has put basic rights in jeopardy.
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"This nomination poses a real and immediate threat to one of our most basic rights and places our freedom to make fundamental decisions about our reproductive lives in great peril," said Andrea Miller, the president of NIRH.
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After all, many of the laws that the Syrian Democratic Council has passed in terms of women's rights are in line with many constitutions around the world that guarantee basic rights for women and girls, including Turkey's.
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Although Afghan women have since won basic rights in education, voting and work—rights that the Taliban deem as un-Islamic for women—executions by the terrorist group still continue, many of which are never made public.
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By the latest count, more than 389,000 Rohingya Muslims—a ghettoized stateless minority denied citizenship and basic rights by the Myanmar government—have walked, swam, and crawled through jungles and hills and muddy ravines into neighboring Bangladesh.
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Now, with the alarming reality of his coming presidency and his choices for a number of cabinet posts, that fear has been multiplied among the nation's vulnerable, and those who stand to defend their most basic rights.
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Women's dignity, autonomy, and basic rights are placed behind other concerns, like financial incentives to keep the perpetrator in his job, or the tribalism of politics, or a desperate urge to keep power in their own hands.
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In a defensive war waged for liberty and to secure basic rights, the Americans invaded Canada in an effort to win by force of arms what could not be won by negotiation and blandishment — a 14th colony.
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In the past, the laws adopted by our society have required police officers to perform many unpalatable tasks, such as insuring legalized discrimination or even denying the basic rights of citizenship to many of our fellow Americans.
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Mr. Trump plans to cast his decision on Cuba as a matter of human rights, arguing that the changes will ensure that the United States is not rewarding a government that deprives its citizens of basic rights.
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"Thousands of transgender students across the country will have to wait even longer for a final decision from our nation's highest court affirming their basic rights," said Sarah Warbelow, the legal director of the Human Rights Campaign.
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The tribunal and the lawyers profit from more cases, the decisions on which are ruled by three highly paid (often corporate) lawyers who are not allowed to consider environmental, indigenous or other basic rights in their decisions.
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Stateless people, sometimes referred to as legal ghosts, are not accepted as citizens by any country, which means they are denied basic rights - leaving many unable to work or access healthcare - and are vulnerable to exploitation and traffickers.
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The government has been struggling to explain why some descendants of the "Windrush generation", invited to Britain to plug labor shortfalls between 1948 and 1971, have been denied basic rights and have been incorrectly labeled as illegal immigrants.
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While the US has made enormous strides over the past few years toward LGBTQ equality, there are many issues LGBTQ Americans still face — from basic rights in the workplace to which bathrooms trans people are allowed to use.
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MADRID, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Spain's ultra-conservative Vox party has filed a criminal complaint in a Spanish court against Twitter, alleging the social media company violated its basic rights by blocking it from tweeting, Vox said on Friday.
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LONDON, April 16 (Reuters) - Britain's interior minister Amber Rudd on Monday apologised to thousands of British residents who arrived from the Caribbean decades ago and are now being denied basic rights after being incorrectly identified as illegal immigrants.
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Rohingya face official and social discrimination in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, which denies most of them citizenship and basic rights because they are looked on as immigrants from Bangladesh, even though many of them settled in Myanmar generations ago.
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Ledecky and other college athlete Olympians may be luckier than McCaffrey, and a bit better compensated, but ultimately they remain just as subject to the NCAA's whims, and just as deprived of their basic rights as American citizens.
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Across the state, basic rights such as freedom of movement and access to healthcare are severely curtailed by government measures, while apartheid-like conditions further limit the prospects of the group in the highly militarized northern Rakhine region.
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Some protesters have been arrested in Tehran, which the State Department criticized, per the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "We urge all nations to publicly support the Iranian people and their demands for basic rights and an end to corruption."
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Corporate-backed "trade" agreements like the TPP, and its evil stepsisters TTIP and TISA, are exactly the wrong venue to be discussing policies that have profound implications for the basic rights of hundreds of millions of Internet users.
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While remarkably specific in his timeline, Toobin's dread is shared by many who saw Kennedy as a watchful moderating force on the court, some who was the human shield protecting basic rights from an ideological attack from conservatives.
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His plan makes no pretense of recognizing basic rights and freedoms for all people, but it does praise moderation, tolerance and equity, says opportunities for women will be expanded and raises the possibility of green cards for foreigners.
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BEIJING — An adviser to the United Nations has sharply criticized President Xi Jinping's crackdown on dissent in China, warning on Tuesday that the Communist Party's tight grip on civil society was undermining basic rights and risking mass unrest.
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's new tax on social media access limits basic rights and harms business, according to a petition filed by activists to the constitutional court against a levy that civic groups and opposition parties say is onerous.
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Hong Kong runs its own finances, education, immigration policy and judiciary, and people in the city enjoy basic rights like freedom of expression and freedom of the press -- rights that people in communist mainland China do not have.
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"By doing this, they circumvent all labor norms that would ensure that the homeworkers had guaranteed work and basic rights under Indian labor laws," Gopinath Parakuni, general secretary of Cividep India, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Monday.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government has accused opposition members of flouting a ban on political activity, among other charges, after they criticized it for reneging on promises to restore democracy and protect basic rights, police said on Friday.
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The expulsion "sends a chilling message to everyone in Hong Kong, highlighting Beijing's tightening grip on the territory and the steady erosion of basic rights that are guaranteed in Hong Kong's laws and international agreements," the editorial said.
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Austerity measures intended to reduce inflation and balance budgets in countries like Brazil and Argentina stand to anger large segments of the population that came to see such things as free education and generous pensions as basic rights.
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At least three distinct but interrelated factors accentuate the prospects for change: First, the internal dynamics: The mullahs' systemic, pervasive mismanagement of the economy has left the Iranian people's basic rights and demands unaddressed and out of reach.
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Rohingya face official and social discrimination in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, which denies most of them citizenship and basic rights because they are looked on as immigrants from Bangladesh, even though the families of many settled in Myanmar generations ago.
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Neither is it to overplay the messaging aspect of a bill that would give LGBTQ people tangible recourse if their basic rights are violated -- if, say, they're refused a rental lease because of their gender identity or sexual orientation.
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"It is important that we don't give up basic rights in order to use the products and services of the future," Myrstad adds, pointing to general trend of more and more connected devices being packed with data-collecting sensors.
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Rohingya face official and social discrimination in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, which denies most of them citizenship and basic rights because they are looked on as immigrants from Bangladesh even though the families of many settled in Myanmar generations ago.
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Legal experts with knowledge of Al-Anezi's case said it underscored the vulnerability of millions of stateless people globally who are sometimes called "legal ghosts" as they are not recognized by any nation and are deprived of basic rights.
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You can't imagine the relief that I experienced, just by being able to live my life as the girl I am, without being separated from my classmates as if I were less deserving of basic rights than they were.
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With the dramatic increase in refugees from Africa and the Middle East, it takes a well-funded and dedicated UN, and agencies like UNFPA to ensure that women's health needs, and basic rights, are not lost in general crisis.
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Congress should therefore encourage the State Department to communicate its concern to the government of Spain regarding the restrictions of basic rights, as well as calling for an end to the prosecution of Catalan political and civil society leaders.
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"We're going to have to put aside our religious differences and focus on basic rights like liberty and justice," said LeBaron, whose father was a prophet, and who has four wives, and until Monday, 39 children and 79 grandchildren.
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The international community has failed the Rohingya people in this crisis, the latest miscarriage of justice in a troubled history marred by a lack of accountability and shifting responsibility for the safety and basic rights of a persecuted population.
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Given this alarming situation, it's more important than ever for members of Congress and others in the international community to shine a bright light on the attempted demolition of democracy and basic rights that is taking place in Brazil.
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I love being a woman and I appreciate the expression of all kinds of femininity, but it's confusing and challenging in a world that sends mixed messages about our sexuality and has at times denied us our basic rights.
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"The Guarantee Clause is best understood as protecting basic rights of political participation within state governments," Chemerinsky wrote, arguing that it can be read as a protection for individual liberties as well as a structural boundary for the republic.
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Article of the Day Before reading the article: Start by gaining an understanding of the basic rights afforded to all people under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which were proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.
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As McBride sits in tears on the Senate floor, State Senator Karen Peterson is the only one to comfort her — for Peterson, who is lesbian, recognizes "the indignity of having to plead for your most basic rights," McBride writes.
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Attorneys for the family allege in their claim that Bulger was subject to a multitude of abuses, including deprivation of his basic rights and proper access to medical care, beginning from his pretrial imprisonment to the day he died.
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"[T]he reality is that even if these security issues were addressed, it would do nothing to protect the safety and basic rights of the millions of people who get swept up in Ring camera owners' footage," Greer continued.
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" Last week, the group released audio of the interview to the Washington Free Beacon that showed that one member immediately responded to the question by saying, "Well, if you're not in jail, you should still have your basic rights.
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Millions of people across the country do not have these basic rights that have become luxuries, she noted: I respect the perspectives of friends of mine who do not believe in abortion and say they would not choose it for themselves.
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"This is a far-reaching attack and attempt to take away women's basic rights and reproductive rights, period," Dawn Laguens, Executive Vice President of Parenthood Federation of America, said of the administration's latest proposal, in a call with reporters this morning.
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"We urge you in the strongest terms to reverse course," the lawmakers wrote, "to demonstrate that Apple puts values above market access, and to stand with the brave men and women fighting for basic rights and dignity in Hong Kong."
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Their attacks, no matter how wrong, grant them the delusion that they are the great protectors of free speech, which I guess makes them feel better about themselves than what they are actually doing: denying LGBT seniors basic rights and dignity.
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"But that does not change the fact that the Democratic Party will continue to strongly support every woman's right to make her own decisions about her reproductive health and will fight Republican attempts to strip women of these basic rights."
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"It sends a chilling message to everyone in Hong Kong, highlighting Beijing's tightening grip on the territory and the steady erosion of basic rights that are guaranteed in Hong Kong's laws and international agreements," the paper said in an editorial Monday.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's parliament is drafting proposed revisions to the national criminal code that could ban all consensual sex outside marriage, sparking alarm among activists who it would breach basic rights and could be misused to target the LGBT community.
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"At its core, ISDS is about ensuring individuals, NGOs and businesses that are or have invested some basic protections so that foreign governments cannot steal their property, or deny them basic rights such as due process and non-discrimination," Dempsey said.
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"We commend the bravery of Amanda Mellet and all the women who have spoken out about their experiences of trying to get an abortion, but women should not have to look to international bodies to uphold their basic rights," she said.
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Around the world, too many women and girls are deprived of basic rights: access to schools, access to credit, the right to participate in political life, the right to inherit land, the right to equal treatment under the law, equal pay.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 10 (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers called on Friday for stricter EU supervision of Malta's application of the bloc's rules on money laundering and basic rights, stepping up pressure after the assassination of an investigative journalist on the island.
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"The US [is] the biggest supporter of the state terrorism, by unconditional support for the Zionist regime [that] has imposed decades of deprivation from the basic rights and living in permanent horror to the under-occupation civilians of Palestine," he said.
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The Rohingya face official and social discrimination in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, which denies most of them citizenship and basic rights because they are looked on as immigrants from Bangladesh even though the families of many settled in Myanmar generations ago.
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The story of social progress in America has been the struggle to take those principles more seriously than their authors did, to extend and deepen the family of those "created equal before God," due basic rights and protections under law.
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A new pro-growth economic platform that sets aside small-government monomania and focuses instead on protecting citizens' basic rights to commit "capitalist acts between consenting adults," as the libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick put it, has both practical and political advantages.
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"For example, you have denied the president the right to cross-examine witnesses, to call witnesses, to receive transcripts of testimony, to have access to evidence, to have counsel present and many other basic rights guaranteed to all Americans," Cippolone wrote.
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It also means using our voices to speak out in the face of injustice, whether it's the detention of migrant children in our own state or the lack of basic rights ethnic and religious minorities have in our ancestral country.
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" GRACE MACHEL, FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE ELDERS WITH HUSBAND NELSON MANDELA, LAUNCHING A CAMPAIGN FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE - "We have women and children dying unnecessarily because there is no primary health care system to take care of their basic rights.
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As the royal censor, her primary job is to ensure that the North Korean people remain deprived of the basic rights of freedom of speech and information, so that her family's unparalleled rule by crimes against humanity continues in perpetuity.
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Homes Lost and Lives Trampled, Rural Afghans Urgently Want Peace: Desperate for any sort of truce, many of those displaced by fighting already lack the basic rights that urban elites fear will be lost in a deal with the Taliban.
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THE HAGUE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An estimated 10 to 15 million people are not recognized as nationals by any country, often depriving them of basic rights most of the world takes for granted such as education, healthcare, housing and jobs.
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Their scare tactics — these people think way too much about where others pee — are familiar to many: ads styled like horror movies, suggesting that our law recognizing the basic rights of trans people in public was paving the way for restroom rapists.
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Omer Celik, spokesman for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party, said such a decision by the United States would "undoubtedly yield extremely wrong results regarding stability, human rights, basic rights and freedoms in countries of the Islamic world", he said.
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But on Tuesday the Court of Appeal allowed part of it, saying that schedule 7 failed to provide effective protection for the basic rights of journalists and those working with them, and as such was incompatible with the European Convention of Human Rights.
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The Clery Act requires higher education institutions to track and disclose crimes reported on campus, to send emergency alerts in the instance of a threat like an active shooter, and to provide several basic rights to students involved in sexual assault cases.
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"The fundamental cause has been the systematic failure of employers to respect the basic rights of employees, such as being paid on time and receiving their legally mandated benefits, and the failure of local government officials to enforce labor law," according to CLB.
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There is no reliable estimate for the number of stateless people globally although the U.N. estimates it could be 12 million and wants to end statelessness by 2024 as it can leave people with no access to basic rights like education and health.
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Multiple immigration lawyers Vox interviewed say the Trump administration's use of confidential records to detain kids longer violates medical ethics and the kids' basic rights to have their medical and psychological records kept confidential and out of the hands of law enforcement.
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On Saturday, the CHP, Iyi Party, Saadet Party and Democrat Party signed a declaration marking a four-way election alliance called the "Nation Alliance", pledging to remove polarization, instill independence for the judiciary and ensure basic rights and freedoms can be exercised.
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UNFPA, together with thousands of national groups and a host of international aid agencies, is part of the front line of aiding women and girls suffering in conflict and humanitarian disasters around the globe, helping ensure some of their basic rights are met.
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Whether we're traveling, waiting at the DMV, or voting, trans people are always aware that we could be denied basic rights because of outdated state information about our identities before transition, and similarly outdated agency policies that do not account for our existence.
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Indeed, in a world where billions of people still live under the yoke of repressive and authoritarian regimes, it is vital that governments, civil society actors, and corporations all commit to acting within their spheres to support basic rights around the globe.
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Sure, there was a lot of music this year that attempted to capture the doom and gloom you feel when you're trying to decide what you should be more worried about, the proliferation of climate change, loss of basic rights, or nuclear war.
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Increasingly, these workers are being expected to play a huge role in feeding people during this time of crisis, so it is time for their employers and the government to give them the basic rights we expect in any decent and just society.
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Although born of a genuine effort by the Carter administration to address their fate, Camp David instead hamstrung Palestinians' aspirations for statehood and left them under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza, stripped of basic rights like the freedom of movement.
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The human rights experts said they were concerned that the Xinjiang regulations and other measures to suppress dissent applied across China not only violated basic rights, but by "creating pockets of fear, resentment and alienation" could lead to more radicalization and extremism.
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If Fulkerson and his ilk were actually pro-life, they'd be concerned about the fact that women keep dying as a result of pregnancy — but then, I suppose fetuses don't use such shrill unpleasant voices as they demand their basic rights to healthcare.
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" In a letter to those leading the inquiry, White House officials said the "transparent rush to judgment, lack of democratically accountable authorization and violation of basic rights in the current proceedings make clear the illegitimate, partisan purpose of this purported 'impeachment inquiry.
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That movement has varying degrees of militancy, but generally asks the public to put aside its bias and learn something new — to not think of fat people as lazy; to not deny them medical care; to not exclude them from their basic rights.
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While neither side has any interest in ending Turkey's decade-long accession process, their relations are increasingly transactional, driven by mutual need in areas such as migration, trade and security, rather than by convergence towards European Union norms on democracy and basic rights.
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The arrest of the puppeteers, Raúl García Pérez and Alfonso Lázaro de la Fuente, in February 2016 set off a political controversy and was seen a bellwether for whether Europe's fight against terrorism was also threatening basic rights of protest and free speech.
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The liberal order led by the United States favored an open world connected by the free flow of people, goods, ideas and capital, a world grounded in the principles of self-determination and sovereignty for nations and basic rights for their citizens.
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The British government has also found itself mired in a scandal about treatment of some descendants of the "Windrush generation" of Caribbean migrants who were invited to Britain after World War Two but have been left without documents and denied basic rights.
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"Instead of focusing on policies that will help women and families get ahead, such as expanding access to birth control and paid family leave, they spend their time and resources attacking vital healthcare resources and working to dismantle our basic rights and freedoms."
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A nation that has suffered too much At least 3 million Venezuelans have been forced to flee their country as their health, safety and most basic rights have been stolen, as citizens were abused by their government, and as rule of law and democracy disappeared.
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Sandra, who had lived in captivity for 20 years at the Buenos Aires Zoo, garnered international attention when a judge declared she was a "non-human being," granting her basic rights, such as life, freedom and a premise of "no harm" either physically or psychologically.
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For nearly two weeks, British ministers have been struggling to explain why some descendants of the "Windrush generation", who were invited to Britain to plug labor shortfalls between 1948 and 1971, had been denied basic rights and in some cases detained and threatened with deportation.
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The Financial Times said in an editorial at the weekend the incident "sends a chilling message to everyone in Hong Kong, highlighting Beijing's tightening grip on the territory and the steady erosion of basic rights that are guaranteed in Hong Kong's laws and international agreements".
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The Washington Post tries to congratulate Berkeley for benevolently spending $600,000 on security at last September's lecture with Ben Shapiro, but how many hundreds of thousands of dollars is Berkeley spending to deprive their own students of basic rights with their white-shoe law firm?
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An insurgent group operating near Hama, located 210 km (130 miles) from Damascus, said it was ready to shell government militias in towns nearby in response to mistreatment of the inmates, who it said were demanding "basic rights" including trial, the British-based Observatory reported.
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Faced with a sense of in-betweenness, as an outsider exploring his country of descent, he was especially attuned to the relationship between locals and foreigners — largely Westerners — and their marked difference of conduct in a country whose citizens regularly face threats to basic rights.
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But when an able-bodied, healthy human says that I'm "lucky" just because I can smoke pot, I have to stop and let them know the truth about the pot-patient lifestyle: We give up a lot of basic rights just to access our medication.
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Acknowledging this makes it easier to focus instead on achieving equality and the basic rights that he says all Palestinians should enjoy, and to let go of what he sees as the fundamentally misplaced, overriding goal of a Palestinian state embraced by his father's generation.
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" In Islip, the new suit contends, at-large voting "has for many years systematically prevented members of the town's minority Latino community from electing any candidates of their choice to the Islip Town Board, thus denying the members of that community their most basic rights.
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The basic rights enjoyed by its citizens — equality before the law, freedom of association, of expression and to cultivate their own languages — meant that the monarchy was less repressive than tsarist Russia and more tolerant than imperial Germany in its management of national diversity.
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MOSCOW — Demonstrators packed a downtown Moscow avenue on Sunday, angered by plans for the mass demolition and replacement of huge apartment blocks and by what they called the highhanded way that City Hall, and by extension the federal government, trampled on their basic rights.
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The self is not the immortal soul or the complex firing of synapses, not the swelling network of causes and effects that led to you, and certainly not a being whose basic rights are enshrined by law and defended by the rest of humankind.
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"A majority of Americans and the vast majority of Democrats agree that our country should not give a blank check to Israel if the Israeli government continues with the violence of the occupation and denying the Palestinian people basic rights," co-founder Yonah Lieberman said.
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The US Constitution and its laws say that everyone has certain basic rights in the criminal justice system; that police and prosecutors have to respect those rights; and that those rights are so important that if police and prosecutors don't respect them, it costs them the case.
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"When one person has historically believed other people should not have the same basic rights as another, it's hard to treat these differences as benign—especially when that person once exercised their power to help make their beliefs a reality," wrote Laura Bradley at Vanity Fair.
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Research from LGBT advocacy groups suggests people who identify as transgender face disproportionate barriers to basic rights and needs compared to the general population, from access to education, employment, housing and health care to fair treatment in restaurants, stores, public spaces, hospitals and other public places.
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A charter of basic rights, the separation of powers, free and fair elections, representative legislative bodies, the rule of law, an independent judiciary, a free and independent press, and a professional nonpartisan civil service work together to make political authority something that can be legitimately exercised.
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In Shashemene, a town in central Oromia, a 17-year-old student who asked to be identified only by his first initial, M., said that what had begun as a movement for basic rights had been reduced to a struggle to escape persecution by Ethiopia's security agents.
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"It's plain as day that the United States can't disappear an American citizen into military custody and deny him his basic rights to appear before a court with the assistance of a lawyer to challenge his detention," Jonathan Hafetz, a senior attorney for the ACLU, told CNN.
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Separately, Congress can also play a critical role by passing binding legislation fully funding a robust human rights strategy while putting the Iranian regime on notice that tough sanctions will be coming back if it continues to egregiously deny the basic rights of its own people.
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"The Texas laws create fundamentally unfair legal processes that deprive all Texans of basic rights and will result in more pollution in our state," Jim Marston, the EDF's regional director for Texas, said in a statement Tuesday, the day after submitting the petition to the EPA.
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Now the president himself needs to build on this success and integrate human rights into all U.S. policy discussions with Chinese officials, including raising the issue of people who have been forcibly disappeared and those who have been detained for peacefully exercising their basic rights. 9.
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The last annual report by NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Vietnam's record remained "dire in all areas," with the Communist Party allowing no challenge to its leadership, restricting basic rights such as freedom of speech and association, as well as imprisoning and assaulting activists and bloggers.
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Foreign policy is about whether we continue to champion the values of freedom, democracy and justice, values which have been a beacon of hope for people throughout the world, or whether we support undemocratic, repressive regimes, which torture, jail and deny basic rights to their citizens.
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Blizzard's censorship and sanctioning of a Hearthstone player who expressed support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters is a human rights issue that demonstrates the video game company doesn't respect the humanity and basic rights of its customers, a prominent international human rights organization said Friday.
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As a signatory of the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol, Turkey acknowledges that refugees are entitled to basic rights like an obligation to be issued travel documents, a right to work, and education, as well as protection from being forcibly returned to their home country.
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"Assam is on the brink of a crisis which would not only lead to a loss of nationality and liberty of a large group of people but also erosion of their basic rights - severely affecting the lives of generations to come," Amnesty said in a statement.
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As cisgender, heterosexual black women, we often see ourselves as the bottom of the totem poll, the most oppressed group in the world, but black trans and queer women are still fighting to get some of the basic rights and dignities that we've managed to get for ourselves.
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In the end, although her memoir underscores that a slow change will have to come from within Iran, it is also proof of the stunning effects of her nonviolent struggle on behalf of those who bravely, and at a very high cost, keep pushing for the most basic rights.
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" On Friday, Lu Kang, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Hong Kong's affairs were a domestic matter and the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which outlined Hong Kong's return to China and the protection of basic rights for its population, was "history and of no practical significance.
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Although the ban on broadcasting in Kurdish was lifted in 2009 and Kurdish was finally allowed to be taught in public schools in 2012, even the attempts to grant Kurds the most basic rights have been inconsistent, as the recent crack-down on Kurdish schools and news outlets illustrates.
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"President Joko Widodo should send a clear and public message to the police that efforts to address the complex problems of drugs and criminality require the security forces to respect everyone's basic rights, not demolish them," Phelim Kine, the organization's Asia deputy director, said in a recent note.
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But human rights activists said the platform's been far more toxic in developing countries like Syria, Myanmar, and India, where people's basic rights, and sometimes their lives, are at risk because of hate speech, the weaponizing of the platform by authoritarian governments, and a complete lack of transparency.
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Yet, as Native Americans right now fight for their most basic rights in North Dakota, the National Football League and the Washington team have remained silent, offering not so much as a peep of support or solidarity -- even as they kick off another season to profit off demeaning our heritage.
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The national Republican leadership has, to an extent, backed away from Moore—the Alabama state Party has not—but it had earlier supported him even though he said that he did not believe that Muslims ought to be seated in Congress or that gays and lesbians should have basic rights.
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But he sensed that Uribe, with his open disdain for journalists and the basic rights of opponents, had become a liability, if not at home then abroad—that rampant state violence, while no doubt necessary to contain the guerrilla, was preventing Colombia from taking its place among modern, developed nations.
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Read More: Indian Officials Want White People to Stop Telling Indians How to Poop But India—partly because of its obsession with presenting a shiny, modern facade to the rest of the world—wants to check off this sanitation box, even if it means starving people of other basic rights.
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International Women's Day events: How the world will stand with women In campaigning for basic rights and protections for domestic workers in recent years, hundreds of workers have taken days off from work and lost wages to march in state capitals or to meet with legislators about the value of their work.
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But chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE's argument that the policy is not cruel because the children "will be taken care of — put into foster care or whatever" is reflective of the administration's larger project of denying the humanity of immigrants, including the basic rights and needs of parents and of children.
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HONG KONG — The Financial Times said in an editorial Sunday that the expulsion of one of its journalists from Hong Kong sends a chilling message about the steady erosion of basic rights in the semiautonomous Chinese city, as more than 15,000 people signed an online petition calling for an explanation from the government.
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There's a reason that LGBTQ groups are so worried — to the point even an unverified draft makes them panic: The Trump administration is filled with people, from Pence to Attorney General–nominee Jeff Sessions, who for decades have worked closely with conservative religious groups that have opposed even basic rights for LGBTQ people.
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But the most lasting and alarming legacy of the first year may be on the international front where the dysfunction in the White House and the devaluing of diversity and basic rights at home are sending the message to the world that the indispensable United States is slipping backward on basic values.
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All of them, like the civil rights revolution, sparked tense and sometimes violent clashes between competing views of the Constitution and basic rights, but in my version of history, those tensions proved not only survivable but fruitful, and working through them has been an engine of dynamism and renewal, not destruction and oppression.
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Ferguson flouted the Constitution's explicit promises of racial equality; pre-Warren cases slighted the Constitution's repeated affirmations of a "right to vote"; early-103th-century precedents ignored basic rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment as plainly understood in the 1860s; and pre-Warren jurisprudence also undermined bedrock constitutional rights of political expression.
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"These industries have often tried to snipe at each other in their public relations efforts to take attention off their own bad practices, but the reality is that monopoly power and centralization of both big telecom and big tech pose a significant threat to our most basic rights in the digital age," Greer said.
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But when there's a vacuum in our democracy, when we don't vote, when we take our basic rights and freedoms for granted, when we turn away and stop paying attention and stop engaging and stop believing and look for the newest diversion, the electronic versions of bread and circuses, then other voices fill the void.
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PARIS – Migrants who live through the trauma of camps in Libya, make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to Italy and try to push north get a double-whammy at the French-Italian border, where many languish in a no man&aposs land without adequate food, water, shelter or basic rights, a leading rights group said Friday.
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"This should probably be illegal, but until Congress takes action to ban facial-recognition surveillance, it's terrifyingly easy for anyone — a government agent, a corporation, or just a creepy stalker — to conduct biometric monitoring and violate basic rights at a massive scale," Fight for the Future's deputy director, Evan Greer, said in a statement.
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Look, our colleagues -- BAIER: Do Democrats have regrets that -- MENENDEZ: Our colleagues Dean Heller in Nevada, of course, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski who care about women&aposs health and others I think will have an opportunity to express themselves as to whether they want to support someone who in fact would erode those basic rights.
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Even if readers don't see their own families, as I did, in the tales of the Federal Housing Administration's discriminatory practices or the "kleptocracy" of black-owned land "taken through means ranging from legal chicanery to terrorism," we can see the forms of injustice that persist and speak to basic rights: Where can one live?
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But whatever the gender of the person, one must be aware that we&aposre at a time of great polarization in this country, and people are very afraid that some basic rights that have been constitutionally protected under the 14th Amendment for example, for the last 45 years, could just be vitiated by a new court.
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Imagine being a LGBTQ child in Taiwan and seeing an ad like that pop up while you are watching your favorite channels, at a time when adults are about to vote on the basic rights of LGBTQ people, and you are already confronted every day by banners and flyers that declare you are in a lesser category of human.
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It describes, among others, BP's support of the repressive Alivyev regime in Azerbaijan; its deals with the Indonesian government to extract gas in West Papua, where indigenous Papuans are denied basic rights; and its pursuit of deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico despite the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, after which the company pled guilty to 14 criminal counts.
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Last month, Human Rights Watch reported that, in 2016, Ethiopian security forces "killed hundreds and detained tens of thousands" in the Oromia and Amhara regions; progressively curtailed basic rights during a state of emergency; and continued a "bloody crackdown against largely peaceful protesters" in disputes that have flared since November 2015 over land displacement, constitutional rights and political reform.
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"It is deeply troubling that Lincoln Center, one of the world's leading cultural institutions, is helping the Israeli government to implement its systematic 'Brand Israel' strategy of employing arts and culture to divert attention from the state's decades of violent colonization, brutal military occupation and denial of basic rights to the Palestinian people," the letter reads.
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Ending the fighting would require the Taliban and the Afghan government to resolve major issues, including the formation of a future government, how power will be shared, and how to protect the gains in basic rights over the past 18 years, including rights of women who were confined to their homes during the Taliban's oppressive years in power.
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Sinn Fein, which has consistently raised the DUP's stance on same-sex marriage as a major stumbling block in the political talks, said the issue should be addressed by the local assembly but that it was inevitable that the British government's failure to defend "basic rights available everywhere else on the islands would be confronted", as it was by parliament on Tuesday.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Lewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid MORE, for one, took to the pages of the New York Times to warn that the basic rights of Americans are on the line.
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"This should probably be illegal but until Congress takes action to ban facial recognition surveillance, it's terrifyingly easy for anyone — a government agent, a corporation, or just a creepy stalker — to conduct biometric monitoring and violate basic rights at a massive scale," said Evan Greer, the deputy director of Fight for the Future, the nonprofit advocacy group that organized Thursday's action.
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White actors (who used items like burnt cork, greasepaint, and shoe polish to darken their skin) performed exaggerated and highly racist caricatures of black people, presenting white audiences with a dehumanized image of African Americans, who at the time were disenfranchised and denied basic rights under racial caste systems like Jim Crow laws (in fact, the name "Jim Crow" came from a minstrel character).
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Although some forms of modern originalism might not be inconsistent with all of these rights, and some originalists might say that stare decisis concerns — that is, the imperative to follow precedent — would lead them to approve some of them, it is still startling how many basic rights we take for granted would be endangered if a majority of the court employed originalism in good faith.
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"It's sickening to see both Republicans and Democrats add significant funding for invasive surveillance technologies to trample on millions of people's basic rights at a mass scale," said Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future, one of the groups involved in the protest alongside Access Now, Free Press Action, Demand Progress, and RAICES, the nation's largest immigration legal services non-profit, among others.
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It'd be impossible to recount them all, even in the broadest of strokes, but here are just a few: A rising tide of authoritarian governments worldwide have attempted to enact legislation to deprive parts of society that are already oppressed of basic rights—even now the United States Supreme Court seems divided on whether employers should be allowed to fire people for their sexual orientation.
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Women's basic rights are under threat like never before by President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, his administration, his Republican allies in Congress, and in state governments across the country.
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"It was a damp squib, proposing that Europeans obtain the status of 'third-country nationals' in the UK, with fewer rights than British citizens are offered throughout the EU." May's deputy, Damian Green, told BBC radio the government would preserve the basic rights of EU citizens in Britain, but reiterated that those rights could not be guarded by the European Court of Justice - a sticking point for the two sides.
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A lot of other organizers who I know are feeling this same mood now where, at the same time that we're terrified about what's coming down the pike, there's just an extraordinary sense of hope in how many people are stepping outside of their comfort zone—doing things that they've never done before; stretching themselves, politically, organizationally and tactically to fight for our basic rights and freedoms right now.
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Thankfully, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has made clear that supporting basic rights for the Iranian people and combatting the regime's spread of radical Islamic terrorism is a top priority of his administration.
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What he did instead was show queer and trans people what it looks like when straight, cisgender parents of queer children who say they care about LGBT rights actually do something about it — something of particular importance now, when the murder rate for all LGBT people is up, our basic rights to exist in public free from violence are in jeopardy, and Justice Anthony Kennedy's departure from the Supreme Court could endanger them even more.
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As a mother and one of the first women of color to lead a major international environmental nonprofit, I marched to ensure that my young daughter, and the millions of other little girls just like her, inherit a world where clean air, safe drinking water, and secure communities are basic rights for all of us — no matter where we live, what we look like, how much money we make, or how we vote.
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USCIRF has identified as EPCs and called for action against three of the most violent such groups: ISIS, which has committed genocide against Yazidis, Christians, and Shi'a Muslims in Iraq; the Taliban, whose extremist interpretations of Sharia law have led to honor killings and denials of women's right to education and other basic rights in Afghanistan; and the al Qaeda-aligned al-Shabaab that that has killed hundreds, perhaps thousands, in Somalia.
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Given President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's record of embracing foreign leaders with abusive human rights records, it's unlikely he will raise with Kenyatta the need for accountability, more respect for basic rights, or call for a halt to the well-documented killings by police.
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"It does not confer on President Trump the most basic rights of due process or seemingly alter Chairman Schiff's unfair process in the House Intelligence Committee in any way whatsoever," McConnell said on Wednesday, referring to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffHouse panel advances resolution outlining impeachment inquiry Overnight Defense: Pentagon shares images of al-Baghdadi raid | Bolton called for impeachment inquiry deposition | Russia ambassador pick pressed on surveillance flight treaty House calls for Bolton deposition as part of impeachment inquiry MORE (D-Calif.).
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