"We are all equal in rights, and we all have obligations to carry on for this country, " he said.
In fact, the SEC reopened negotiations with ESPN just last last Fall to discuss an increase in rights fees.
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The Center's report excerpts and analyzes relevant passages from a book published and translated by Saleha S. Mahmood Abedin called Women in Islam: A Discourse in Rights and Obligations by Fatima Umar Naseef.
The World Conference on Human Rights reaffirms the important and constructive role played by national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, in particular in their advisory capacity to the competent authorities, their role in remedying human rights violations, in the dissemination of human rights information, and education in human rights.
In particularly pointed references, the president made a forceful call for gay rights that equated the issue with the struggle for women's rights in the 19th century and civil rights in the 1960s.
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And earlier this year, the Ladies in White received the US government's Human Rights Defender Award for what Washington called their exceptional valour in protecting human rights in the face of government repression.
Beyond the airy assessment of rights in the abstract, in reality rights are obtained by force, either literal physical force or more metaphorical political force.
The West does not seem to notice the steady deterioration in human rights in Turkey, instead extolling it as a model for the Arab spring.
Senator PATRICK LEAHY (Democrat, Vermont): Our great country, America, was once viewed as a leader in human rights in the rule of law and justly so.
Proponents of the property approach want to create, as soon as possible, a market in which rights to spectrum blocks can be freely traded rather in the way that pollution rights now are.
With the EU rights due to run out in 2007 and the US rights in 2023, the hospital hopes a sequel will extend its rights over the famous characters which have yielded large royalties from film versions.
At the core of the solution is investing in women- in our rights and in our health.
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We may have differences in policy, but we all believe in the rights enshrined in our Constitution.
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As a follow up, key players in human rights education in Scotland were asked to put forward case studies and resources.
The World Conference on Human Rights reaffirms that States are duty-bound, as stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and in other international human rights instruments, to ensure that education is aimed at strengthening the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
In human rights, as in much else, Mr Fox has promised a lot but delivered little.
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After a long struggle, they succeeded in codifying those rights in the Treaty of Rome in 1957.
"We believe in selling our rights in an open and transparent way, and whoever wants to bid can bid, " he said.
The damage done by increasingly hefty and dominant government investment goes beyond undermining markets as a phenomenon to that of allocating the spoils artificially created when the government tax power gets involved in the very production of knowledge itself, rather than in merely protecting rights in the property and wealth that new knowledge makes possible.
In addition to pushing for access to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and oil reserves off the east and west coasts, however, some industry reps are also rehashing the argument that the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) presents an opportunity further to secure American oil by "locking in" drilling rights in our Arctic continental shelf.
It was aimed at allowing people to claim the rights enshrined in the Convention without having to go to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Since the end of the Vietnam War, the concept of human rights has been systematically co-opted by groups less interested in actual human rights than in the promotion of leftist politics in the U.S. and abroad.
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It was clear from the debate that the House did not accept this would put them on a slippery slope in human rights terms, and, in the end, the motion was not pushed to a vote.
"This is just the beginning of a process at the U.N. level to reveal and address the many aspects of gross and systematic human-rights violations in Iran, " said Hadi Ghaemi, the director of the New York-based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.
Champion new resolutions on Guinea and Kyrgyzstan calling for accountability and heightened commitment to human rights protection and promotion in the wake of human rights crises in both countries.
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We are societies that believe in human rights and core freedoms that are enshrined in our founding documents.
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As a result, the Civil Rights Division remains actively involved in the enforcement of civil rights laws in a variety of settings relevant to AAPI communities.
And as in any civil rights movement in any part of the world, it always starts like this.
He has spent what for him I'm sure is a small fortune in exercising his rights, in addition to it distracting from his professional career.
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