On paper South Africa has one of the world’s most impressive legal arsenals for protecting women’s rights. But the gap between principle and practice is often wide.

立法上，南非拥有世界上最健全的保障女性权利的法律，然而实际生活中糟糕的实践让这些条文几乎成为一叠废纸。

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So it's a pleasant surprise that in 2009 the company launched an environmental and Labour rights programme with best practice policies.

当公司2009年推出了一个环境和劳工权利的最佳实践政策时，这是个让人惊喜的举措。

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Many millions of people in the world today are still far from enjoying these rights in practice.

时至今日，地球上仍然有数以万计的人们无法享有基本权利。

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human rights investigators applaud moves made by President Barack Obama in pledging to close Guantanamo Bay and stopping the practice of torture and extraordinary rendition.

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"So my suggestion is that there should be a type of mechanism that United Nations aid, United Nations cooperation and United Nations support to the democratic regimes must be linked, should be linked with this protection of human rights and particularly getting rid of this practice of enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and secret detention centers."

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The rights group condemns the practice as tantamount to torture, urging that the latest punishment must not be enforced.

BBC: Amnesty 'outrage' at Saudi paralysis sentence

The trial deals with a practice that human rights groups call "extraordinary rendition, " and they say the United States has often sent suspects to countries that practice torture.

CNN: Berlusconi may be called in CIA 'kidnap' trial

Whatever your own constitutional perspective may be when it comes to the propriety of either state or federal government establishing an official religion, each of us must consider the impact such a practice would likely have on the fundamental rights we have long valued as Americans.

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