• He says he learned one fundamental thing from his encounter with evil: freedom matters and nothing is more fundamental to freedom than the right to self-preservation.

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  • People around the world have long proclaimed their fundamental right to freedom through the music.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN DHAKA

  • But abortion-rights advocates and women's groups say Mrs Corneau has a fundamental right to freedom, regardless of her religious views or the status of her pregnancy.

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  • States and societies are responsible for creating and maintaining the conditions required to preserve the fundamental right to freedom of expression, guaranteed by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and combating the impunity all too often enjoyed by perpetrators of attacks against journalists.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • He called upon the world to embrace four fundamental freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks at the University of Yangon

  • You mentioned Oliver Letwin, I mean what he is talking about are, are fundamental principles like human freedom, about ... community which Disraeli would recognise, actually.

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  • Unfortunately, the Obama administration has repeatedly conveyed a willingness to accommodate - or at least tolerate - this threat to one of our most fundamental constitutional liberties: freedom of speech.

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  • And if we remind them why the net's core qualities of openness and freedom are fundamental to its success, now and in the future, they may be a little more willing to listen to our arguments.

    BBC: Tunisian police

  • 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.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • Konji Sebati (Permanent Delegate of South Africa to UNESCO) strongly supported the view of freedom of information as a fundamental right central to democratic governance, empowerment, socio-economic development, geo-political understanding and tolerance.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • For some, it is based on the fundamental belief that gun ownership is the essential freedom upon which all other freedoms rest.

    BBC: President Obama's next campaign - against the gun lobby

  • "New York has finally torn down the barrier that prevented same-sex couples from exercising the freedom to marry and from receiving the fundamental protections that so many couples and families take for granted, " Mr Cuomo said in a statement.

    BBC: New York state approves gay marriage

  • Speaking at the Liberal Democrat spring conference, the party's leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg gave his support to gay marriage, saying the "freedom to love who you choose is a fundamental right in a liberal society".

    BBC: Gay marriage: Roman Catholic archbishops step up fight

  • She said the case "concerns interference with the right to freedom of expression which is a matter of such fundamental importance that it merits consideration by the appellant court".

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  • This, too, is an unfamiliar turn of events for a country that until recently saw the European charter of fundamental rights as much too lax in its defence of personal freedom.

    ECONOMIST: Living with Islam

  • Ever since then, UNESCO as the UN agency with the mandate to promote freedom of expression and its corollary, freedom of the press, has been promoting these fundamental rights in every region of the world.

    UNESCO: World Press Freedom Day 2013

  • The freedom to engage in economic activity is constitutive of a civil society and fundamental to our liberty.

    FORBES: To Live In Liberty

  • Now many Muslims and Jews are concerned their fundamental traditions are under threat and that circumcision may be the next element of religious freedom to be withdrawn.

    BBC: Dutch Jews and Muslims fight for circumcision right

  • But as you know, it is in the absolute core of our being as Americans that we allow freedom of expression that is written into our Constitution and is one of our fundamental principles.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • As president, Jefferson was voicing an idea that was fundamental to his view of religion and government, expressed most significantly in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which he drafted in 1777.

    CNN: Why U.S. is not a Christian nation

  • Two parties who agree to be bound by the law of a foreign jurisdiction when those foreign laws do not infringe upon any fundamental liberty or important public policy of the state of Oklahoma is as innocuous and conducive to the "freedom to contract" and the liberty inherent in private property as it sounds.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

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