Rights in sentence

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And significantly, there's also a clear focus on both the rights of individuals and the rights of communities.

The government also promises land and hunting rights in the surrounding states.

Everything can be measured before Wounded Knee and after, because it was in this moment, with the fingers on the triggers of the Hotchkiss guns, that the US government openly declared its position on Native rights.

I know that none of us want to be accessories after the fact of a human rights abuse in a global supply chain.

But right now, most of the companies involved in these supply chains don't have any way of assuring us that nobody had to mortgage their future, nobody had to sacrifice their rights to bring us our favorite brand name product.

We need to recognize just how serious a deficit of rights we have.

We don't have a system to ensure that human rights, basic dignity, are ensured.

And eventually President Clinton, in 1996, convened a meeting at the White House, invited industry, human rights NGOs, trade unions, the Department of Labor, got them all in a room and said, "Look, I don't want globalization to be a race to the bottom.

And let's face it, the contract from a major multinational brand to a supplier in India or China has much more persuasive value than the local labor law, the local environmental regulations, the local human rights standards.

Multinationals are protecting human rights.

I hate the idea that governments are not protecting human rights around the world.

"You want me to deliver human rights throughout my global supply chain.

And human rights comes down to a very simple proposition: can I give this person their dignity back?

That's my simple understanding of human rights.

She learned about her rights.

So even property rights have ambiguity built into them.

But one person added to another person, added to another person, multiplied by millions, were able to become the advance guard of the civil rights movement.

And if you're in this room today, most of us grew up in a world where we have basic civil rights, and amazingly, we still live in a world where some women don't have them.

The Million Signatures Campaign of women inside Burma working together to change human rights, to bring democracy to that country.

Millions of girls in this world are being denied their basic rights because of being female.

People were taking shots and photos; people were reporting violations of human rights in Egypt; people were suggesting ideas, they were actually voting on ideas, and then they were executing the ideas; people were creating videos.

It was amazing how everyone was so empowered and now asking for their rights.

I wrote about Nia Martin-Robinson, the daughter of Detroit and two civil rights activists, who's dedicating her life to environmental justice.

And in 1921, the Montana Supreme Court ruled in a case involving Prickly Pear that the folks who were there first had the first, or "senior water rights."

These senior water rights are key.

In some states, senior water rights holders can leave their water in the stream while legally protecting it from others, and maintaining their water right.

I sent out some Facebook messages, some Twitter messages, and I gave people the opportunity to buy the naming rights to my 2011 TED Talk.

So even with that caveat, I knew that someone would buy the naming rights.

And that being said, through honesty and transparency, my entire talk, "Embrace Transparency," has been brought to you by my good friends at EMC, who for $7,100 bought the naming rights on eBay.

There's oil spills, environmental disasters, water rights disputes, breakaway republics, famine, endangered species and global warming.

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