He now leads the small social-democratic Party of Civic Rights.
Former Labour justice secretary Jack Straw said the Strasbourg court had "extended its jurisdiction" from "fundamental human rights into social and civic rights, for which we have not signed up".
The authorities have kicked out American aid groups, such as Counterpart International, which was delivering medical supplies and improving water, as well as Internews, which trains journalists in impartial reporting, and Freedom House, which teaches civic rights.
Our disastrous war on drugs has devastated inner-city communities, and led to large numbers of African-Americans being legally barred from voting, jury duty, public housing, food stamps, student loans, and many other civic rights and benefits, often for life.
It is essential that literacy programmes incorporate the values of peace, human rights and civic values, if literacy is to become a true means of empowerment.
In Britain as in Israel and indeed throughout the free world, those norms are based on the understanding that the ability of a society to remain a free society is contingent on its citizenry's recognition that there can be no civil rights without civic duties.
The Freedom of the City is an honorary status and does not confer any special rights to the recipient other than the right to attend some ceremonial civic events.
This initiative forms part of an agreement , signed in 2011, by the Ministry of Education, the AIHR, the Tunisian League for Human Rights and the UN System, for the reform and mainstreaming of civic education within schools and curricula.
Immigrant and voting-rights advocates see non-citizen suffrage as a matter of taxpayer fairness and civic engagement.
In March Britain announced that it was ending a scheme under which it trained Colombian soldiers in human rights (though it is maintaining counter-drug aid and giving money to civic groups and the judiciary).
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The depth of the President's sense of global civic duty is also evident in the recent move to engage with the United Nations Human Rights Council, whose membership includes some of the world's most egregious human rights violators and other undemocratic countries that use their position to launch hyper-politicized attacks on democratic Israel.
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