It keeps from Negroes only political rights, and refuses to make Negroes equal to white men.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

She wrote important stories at a time when women had few social or political rights.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

And he said the president as well as he could would protect the political rights promised to all people by the Constitution of the United States and the state constitutions.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

It offered equal political rights to all Cubans.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Noriega says maintaining sanctions will give the U.S.leverage to press Cuba's rulers to release political prisoners and grant their citizens political rights.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

In the last couple of months, the PKK - Turkish Kurds fighting for greater cultural and political rights since 1984 - have been steadily stepping up their attacks.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

President Raul Castro said Cuba is willing to discuss "everything" with the United States, including human rights, press freedoms and political prisoners.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

"These freedoms of expression and worship, of access to information and political participation, we believe are universal rights.

VOA: special.2009.11.21

Now the court says the restriction on political speech violates free speech rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

For example, the court will have to rule on whether companies with majority foreign ownership can enjoy the same expanded rights of political speech.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

We must not allow ideas like political correctness to divide us and cause us to reverse hard-won achievements in human rights and civil rights."

VOA: special.2010.05.09

The question was this: With political speech, do corporations have the same rights as people?

VOA: special.2010.03.05

He became a businessman, a political activist and a strong supporter of civil rights.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

The thing about the Titanic experience, what happened with the Titanic experience and the recognition she got from the New York Times in particular was that it gave her a platform from which to talk about some of the political and social issues -- miners rights,womens rights, the development of the juvenile court system, that sort of thing.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

The non-binding resolution expresses "very serious concern" at continuing reports of "systematic,widespread and grave violations of civil, political,economic,social and cultural rights,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

"All who embrace core democratic values long for a Cuba that respects the basic human, political and economic rights of all of its citizens.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

After the political agreement was signed scores of MDC supporters and rights activists were kidnapped and held in secret locations for weeks and months.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Polanco and other civil rights advocates say that for years the judicial and political systems in Guatemala blocked attempts to reconstruct the country's troubled past.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Debbie Stothard, coordinator of the rights group, Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma in Bangkok says it is still unclear whether real political reforms in Burma will follow.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

(VOICE) Kane says promoting women's rights and their access to quality health care across Africa will lead naturally to a stable political environment, economic prosperity, foreign investment, and sustainable development.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

It says this deferral indicates a lack of political will to deal with issues of accountability for violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law in Gaza and southern Israel.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

"The Cuban people are not free." Numerous other leaders expressed hope for sustained dialogue between the United States and Cuba that will lead to normalized relations, while addressing human rights and political reform on the island.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

"When women are accorded their rights and afforded equal opportunities and education and health care and employment and political participation, they invest in their families, they lift them up, they contribute to their communities and their nations,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Khin Ohmar, a member of the Forum for Democracy in Burma, says ASEAN needs to press Burma to talk with the democratic opposition and ethnic nationalities about the release of political prisoners and a halt to human rights abuses against ethnic minorities.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

"The international community should not be silent and also act very urgently and firmly, and send the strong signal to the regime that they can no longer act with impunity of such kinds of violations of basic human rights and democratic rights for her and also the other political prisoners,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.15