In recent years, heated arguments over everything from gay and lesbian rights to military coups have made their way onto their agenda.
In one, a poor devil who is the only regular in his local bar not to have made it on to television, rights matters by throwing himself out of a nearby upper window.
Although it is encouraging that regional governments have taken responsibility to challenge these insidious forces, the strategies employed to date have made the human rights and humanitarian crises even worse.
Over the past week we've heard many speeches about the Constitution and the rule of law, and the many sacrifices that the American people have made throughout their history to defend their rights and their freedoms.
But that tends to be the nature of most of the biggest changes that have been made to the Constitution: affecting the rights and behavior of citizens as opposed to the structure of the government itself.
Firms will have to cut their own emissions, or buy the rights to cuts made by other firms.
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court cited First Amendment free-speech rights in striking down a law that made it a federal crime to falsely claim to have been awarded military medals.
And the schools and vendors who made millions through merchandised intellectual property rights should have a trust established to share the royalty revenue with players after they achieve certain benchmarks.
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This year we must take the opportunity to set a long-sought pathway to protection for workers' and immigrants' rights -- so that May Day 2014 can be a day to celebrate the progress we have made together.
Already, many Asia-based nations have made progress on strengthening the rights of intellectual property creators, but more work needs to be done.
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To be sure, Prime Minister Tony Blair manfully asserts that he has retained the sovereign rights that have made possible a U.S.-U.K. "special relationship" independent from Continental Europe.
And he made several references to freedom in his final sermon in Havana, addressing a nation that human rights groups have routinely denounced for its abuses.
As he did in last year's speech to the NAACP, Obama said Monday that "we have more work to do" even after the gains made from the struggles of the older civil rights leaders.
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