Second, they were more valuable even though many had onerous provisions in their corporate charters that gave family members voting rights in excess of their economic ownership.
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They asked for a formal apology, the speeding up of the investigation into his death, punishment of the perpetrators, the payment of compensation to the fisherman's family and talks over fishing rights in the disputed area.
Casey, the state treasurer, is a pro-gun rights, anti-abortion Democrat whose family name carries weight in Pennsylvania politics.
This discrepancy between the family's voting rights and its share of profits in the company at the bottom of the pyramid is crucial.
As MPs debated a motion tabled by the government on the application of article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which enshrines the right to a family or private life in law, on 19 June 2012, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said she backed ministers' aim to deport more foreign criminals.
Ibrahim Ag Idbaltanat, a descendent of slaves himself, born to a black Tuareg family in northeastern Mali, has been championing human rights and equity since the late 1970s, after becoming aware of injustices against families of slave descent by traditional slave masters, including physical violence and the confiscation of both land and herds of cattle.
"It is about how to balance rights against each other: in particular, the individual's right to family life, the right of the individual to be free from violent crime, and the right of society to protect itself against foreign criminals, " she said.
The key bit for judges trying to balance up an individual's right to a family life against the "rights and freedoms of others" comes in 8.2, and perhaps the most important word in that is "necessary".
Zimmerman has said he shot Martin in self-defense, but Martin's family and civil rights activists across the country said Zimmerman, who is white and Hispanic, racially profiled Martin and ignored a 911 dispatcher's advice not to follow him.
During deliberations, which capped a five-day trial in Sauk County Circuit Court, dozens of farmers, food-rights activists and Hershberger family members filled the courthouse, sharing raw milk from Mr. Hershberger's farm.
And it is kids who deserve the same rights afforded their friends and classmates -- the right to grow up in a legally sanctioned family, regardless of who their parents are and how they came into being.
Following a challenge by the family of Patrick Shanahan in Northern Ireland, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that any failure to hold an inquest within a four and a half year period was a breach of international and human rights commitments.
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.
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When Iraqi women's rights activist Zainab Salbi noted that the key issue for women in the Muslim world is changing the family law that governs their societies, Amanpour didn't ask her what she meant.
Its family code, known as the Moudawana, was revised in 2004 to give far greater rights to women (including equal status in the household, the power to initiate divorces and the right to inherit equally).
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In 1995 his half-sister, Janie, formed Experience Hendrix with other family members which owns rights to the musician's name, image and recordings.
Small family companies will explore these new opportunities to be rewarded tax-free, in exchange for surrendering rights they never use.
The World Conference on Human Rights also stresses that the child for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality should grow up in a family environment which accordingly merits broader protection.
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