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What was more pertinent, and continues to be so about ancient Athenian democracy, was the inclusion of the working poor, who not only acquired the right to free speech, but more importantly, crucially, they acquired the rights to political judgments that were afforded equal weight in the decision-making concerning matters of state.
Slavery, the treatment of human beings as property, deprived of personal rights, has occurred in many forms throughout the world.
This was about scientific freedom, medical progress, the rights of patients.
After much pressure from human rights groups, the dictator reluctantly agrees to let you visit the island and speak to the prisoners under the following conditions: you may only make one statement, and you cannot tell them any new information.
He deprived women of the rights that the revolution had given them and even reinstated slavery in the French colonies.
It was thanks to Napoléon that the continent was reshaped from a chaotic patchwork of fragmented feudal and religious territories into efficient, modern, and secular nation states where the people held more power and rights than ever before."
The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's rights: "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man.
The Civil Rights Movement, the movement against apartheid, and more recently, the movement for gay and lesbian rights here in the United States and elsewhere.
And what becomes of our rights if authorities think they can identify the people likely to commit crimes before they even make a conscious decision to act?
One study showed that when subjects were exposed to news stories that were negative about Muslims, they became more accepting of military attacks on Muslim countries and policies that curtail the rights of American Muslims.
Yet along with the growth of the industry, there have been horrific abuses of human rights.
Number three: property rights.
We can create one where those who do wrong are held accountable, where survivors get the support and justice they deserve, where the authorities get the information they need, and where there's a real deterrent to violating the rights of another human being.
So, too, is climate change, human rights, gender equality, even conflict.
But it's not a great model for human rights.
A sex worker can refuse to see a client at any time, for any reason, and 96 percent of street workers report that they feel the law protects their rights.
If you care about gender equality or poverty or migration or public health, then sex worker rights matter to you.
We want full decriminalization and labor rights as workers.
But just as technology has allowed the government to circumvent reporters' rights, the press can also use technology to protect their sources even better than before.
After all, these tools weren't just built to help the brave men and women who expose crimes, but are meant to protect all of our rights under the Constitution.
Unfortunately, Cervantes had sold the book’s publishing rights for very little.
I used to be a disability rights lawyer, and I spent a lot of my time focused on enforcing the law, ensuring that accommodations were made.
About a year ago, I read an article about a tireless and intrepid civil rights leader named Bryan Stevenson.
And while there’s been a shift towards free-range farming due to animal rights and environmental concerns, most of the world’s more than 22 billion chickens today are factory farmed.
Those interested in sport could share information about how famous sports stars were putting their image rights into offshore companies, thereby likely avoiding taxes in the countries where they plied their trade.
There's a big question at the center of life in our democracies today: How do we fight terror without destroying democracies, without trampling human rights?
I've spent much of my career working with journalists, with bloggers, with activists, with human rights researchers all around the world, and I've come to the conclusion that if our democratic societies do not double down on protecting and defending human rights, freedom of the press and a free and open internet, radical extremist ideologies are much more likely to persist.
Tunisian cartoonist Nadia Khiari has summed up the situation with this character who says, "I don't give a damn about human rights.
Freedom House, the human rights organization, reports that 2015 marks the 10th straight year in a row of decline in freedom worldwide.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has warned that "preventing extremism and promoting human rights go hand-in-hand."
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