There is no reason why Muslim Arabs, women included, should not have the democratic freedom enjoyed by people of other faiths.
Gyatso is one of a new breed of Buddhist activists who are on the front lines of battles to win democratic freedom.
Suu Kyi, a democratic freedom activist who spent 15 years under house arrest, traveled to Washington earlier this year to accept the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal.
Instead, this policy is a guarantee that the region remains open for cooperative trade, and that economic opportunity and democratic freedom continue to flourish across East Asia.
Many were suspicious, believing that after the handover China would be unable to resist meddling in a territory that enjoyed both prosperity and a degree of democratic freedom.
The king and his advisers believe legislative elections in 2007 may mark another step towards democratic freedom by producing a more coherent governing majority to replace the current unwieldy six-party coalition under Mr Jettou.
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In 2002, Paya delivered to Cuba's National Assembly petitions containing 11, 020 signatures calling for democratic elections and freedom of speech.
In 2002, shortly before former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's visit to Cuba, Paya delivered petitions containing 11, 020 signatures calling for democratic elections and freedom of speech to Cuba's National Assembly.
Forty years ago, in 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party stood at the Democratic convention in Atlantic City fighting to preserve voting rights for all America and all Democrats, regardless of race or gender.
"Civilised, democratic society depends on freedom of speech, which in turn depends on freedom of the press, " he said.
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Like these other ideologues, their unalterable objective is the destruction of our Constitution, democratic political system and freedom-loving country.
They have a solid democratic government with strong freedom of speech laws.
Other private publications such as weeklies are already allowed, but the April 1 return of private dailies has been hailed as another step toward greater press freedom and democratic change.
So now Lenarcic, a Slovenian ambasador, is under the gun to ensure that he appears just as critical of the US, which of course is leagues ahead of Russia in press freedom and democratic institutions.
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But Mr Gross's Social Democrats might lose their only remaining coalition partner, the right-wing Freedom Union-Democratic Union.
In short, our overarching objective is to sustain a stable security environment and a regional order rooted in economic openness, peaceful resolution of disputes, democratic governance, and political freedom.
Harymurti, the vice-president of the Press Council of Indonesia, described how his country managed, after several unsuccessful attempts, to enact constitutional amendments guaranteeing fundamental democratic principles and in particular freedom of expression and freedom of the press.
These are those who fought for the Polish freedom and for the democratic state, and they fought well.
President Bush pledged during his 2005 State of the Union Address that the United States would help the Iraqi people establish a fully democratic government because the victory of freedom in Iraq would strengthen a new ally in the war on terror, bring hope to a troubled region, and lift a threat from the lives of future generations.
But he leaves unaddressed the most likely counter-argument: that a democratic state is a free association and freedom of association involves a right of exclusion.
Barry Kenward, deputy chairman of the Driving Instructors Democratic Union, has put in a Freedom of Information request to find out how many accidents have occurred on the test so far.
In democratic countries, almost everybody agrees that religious freedom is a supremely important ideal.
It denigrates both the struggle of people who live under true political oppression, and democratic institutions like the right to assembly and freedom of expression, to treat these forms of protest as equivalent.
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Shariah demands the subjugation and destruction of societies like ours that believe in democratic rule, equal rights for women, freedom of speech and other basic liberties, the separation of church and state, etc.
During his fourteen years in power he changed Venezuela from a poor country with democratic institutions, a rule of law and freedom of the press to an even poorer country with a quasi-dictatorship, no rule of law and no freedom of the press.
The Center for Security Policy strongly believes that the Bush Administration would do a grave disservice to the cause of freedom, the prospects for genuine democratic and free-market economic reform in the Soviet Union and domestic fiscal responsibility if it were to waive Jackson-Vanik under present circumstances.
Votes from Catholic believers seem to be distributed over the three main competitors (Bersani's Democratic Party, Berlusconi's People of Freedom and Monti's coalition) and uncertainty over their reactions might exacerbate the tones of the campaign, now in its two last weeks, since the three parties might be willing to appease as many Catholics as possible.
The latter need democratic processes to rise to power and secure their freedom.
It will highlight the importance of freedom of information as an integral part of freedom of expression and its contribution to democratic governance.
Online and offline freedom of expression is the foundation for democratic societies, a pillar of individual rights and a force for social transformation.
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