What both the Brighton court's verdict and the abuse of the universal jurisdiction law show is that today in England Israelis cannot assume that the laws will protect them.
Significantly, the State increased funding for education and promulgated the universal basic education law which guarantees every child the right to free and compulsory education for nine years.
Non-governmental organizations should be free to carry out their human rights activities, without interference, within the framework of national law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
On the other hand, Republicans will be poorly advised if they seek to repeal the commitment to universal coverage in the Obama health law.
During her visit to Israel this week, British Attorney-General Patricia Scotland made clear that the British government is unwilling to cancel Britain's universal jurisdiction law despite the fact that anti-Israel activists exploit the law to abuse Israeli officials visiting her country.
The law required universal regulation of guns, including rifles and shotguns.
The criminal law should once again be more like the common law, with judges and juries not merely finding fact but making law on the basis of universal principles of fairness, circumstance, and seriousness, and crafting penalties to the exigencies of the crime.
Genuine human rights activists worldwide, are mustering to Wilders' side, in the growing conviction that Dutch law is being put to uses contrary to the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and more in line with sharia law standards and sensibilities.
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"We have and will continue to urge the SCAF to relinquish power to civilian elected authorities and to respect the universal rights of the Egyptian people and the rule of law, " he told reporters.
Non-governmental organizations and their members genuinely involved in the field of human rights should enjoy the rights and freedoms recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the protection of the national law.
The possibility that a court could ultimately unravel the law underscores just how difficult it is to enact universal health insurance a goal that had eluded presidents dating back to Theodore Roosevelt.
The Basic Law allows for the possibility no more than that of universal suffrage for both the legislature and for the post of chief executive after 2007.
As labour minister from 1997-2000, she implemented the 35-hour week - known in France as the "Aubry Law" - and universal sickness cover, as well as overseeing an important youth employment scheme.
Based on this premise, it is hoped that this calloboration would further strengthen universal respect for justice, the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms, regardless of race, gender, language or religion.
Rather, the more economists find out about the rule of law, the more desirable it seems and the more problematic as a universal economic guide.
Each year a universal health care law is introduced in the legislature and labor friendly changes to workers compensation laws are constantly sought.
But Massachusetts's universal health-care law has not (yet) bent the cost-curve, and Texas-style damage caps have not in fact increased doctor numbers.
Metropolitan Police detectives held Col Lama under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, a law that defines torture as a "universal jurisdiction" crime.
Detectives with specialist experience of war crimes arrested the officer under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, a law that defines torture as a "universal jurisdiction" crime.
Few nations have made the journey the U.S. has, moving from black slavery to a black president, from Jim Crow to equality before the law, and from widespread social acceptance of racism to near universal condemnation.
And today, I'm proud to stand beside the democratically-elected leader of Thailand, and to reaffirm the importance of upholding democracy, governance, rule of law, and universal human rights -- all of which I know, Madam Prime Minister, that you believe in very deeply.
The new law, Kennedy said, might have a major impact on passing universal health care nationally.
This turn of events is the logical flipside of Parliament's abject refusal to amend Britain's outrageous universal jurisdiction law.
The rarely-used 1988 war crimes and human rights abuses law is known as a "universal jurisdiction" offence.
The prize is presented to a living person, institution and active public or private bodies that make a significant contribution to defending, disseminating and embodying the values that were the foundations of Henri La Fountain's life and career in support of universal knowledge, international law and democracy.
Instead, Universal argued, state common law applies. (As a side note, at the end of last year, the U.S. Copyright Office performed a study at the request of Congress and recommended that pre-72 sound recordings be placed under federal jurisdiction).
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After he returned home, King said that he was struck by how Gandhi embodied in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation.
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