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There was a time in which, I don't know, people who were black couldn't have the same rights.
People who happened to be women didn't have the same rights, couldn't vote.
Seoul, because of broadcast rights, all the games have been in the late afternoon.
And even in those rare cases where law enforcement has chosen to act, victims have no rights during the resulting criminal process.
And through campus-level proceedings, Title IX goes so far as to give victims equitable rights during the campus process, which means that victims can represent their own interests during proceedings, rather than relying on educational institutions to do so.
So as a victims' rights attorney fighting to increase the prospect of justice for survivors across the country and as a survivor myself, I'm not here to say, "Time's Up."
More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.
Public libraries have always been about community support with all kinds of services and programs from assisting with job seeking efforts to locating resources for voter rights to providing free meals to kids and teens even.
They are of people, real people, like you and me, all deserving of the same rights, dignity and respect in their lives.
It was the human rights moment.
But perhaps most heartbreaking of all are the stories of the abuse of even the most basic human rights, such as the young woman shown in this image here that are played out every day, sadly, even in the very institutions that were built to care for people with mental illnesses, the mental hospitals.
It is for this reason that, some years ago, the Movement for Global Mental Health was founded as a sort of a virtual platform upon which professionals like myself and people affected by mental illness could stand together, shoulder-to-shoulder, and advocate for the rights of people with mental illness to receive the care that we know can transform their lives, and to live a life with dignity.
Starting in 2005, and this is how this open government work in the U.S. really got started, I was teaching a patent law class to my students and explaining to them how a single person in the bureaucracy has the power to make a decision about which patent application becomes the next patent, and therefore monopolizes for 20 years the rights over an entire field of inventive activity.
"Stationarity" is the notion that we can anticipate the future based on the past, and plan accordingly, and this principle governs much of our engineering, our design of critical infrastructure, city water systems, building codes, even water rights and other legal precedents.
The IMF, the World Bank, and the cartel of good intentions in the world has taken over our rights as citizens, and therefore what our governments are doing, because they depend on aid, is to listen to international creditors rather than their own citizens.
It is, I believe, to embody within the rule of law rights to information.
At the moment our rights are incredibly weak.
We need to get away from feeling, in the same way, human rights matters because of the other things it brings, or women's rights matters for the other things it brings.
If we set about saying, for example, torture is wrong because it doesn't extract good information, or we say, you need women's rights because it stimulates economic growth by doubling the size of the work force, you leave yourself open to the position where the government of North Korea can turn around and say, "Well actually, we're having a lot of success extracting good information with our torture at the moment," or the government of Saudi Arabia to say, "Well, our economic growth's okay, thank you very much, considerably better than yours, so maybe we don't need to go ahead with this program on women's rights."
But I was struck by the fact that America, a country with such a tarnished civil rights record, could be repeating its mistakes so blatantly.
But I was plagued by this question: How could anyone vote to strip the rights of the vast variety of people that I knew based on one element of their character?
How could they say that we as a group were not deserving of equal rights as somebody else? Were we even a group?
["What does equality mean to you?"] ["Marriage"] ["Freedom"] ["Civil rights"] ["Treat every person as you'd treat yourself"] It's when you don't have to think about it, simple as that.
The fight for equal rights is not just about gay marriage.
This is my contribution to the civil rights fight of my generation.
At the very least I hope it makes it harder to deny their human rights.
And every day, every day we wake up with the rule of the militias and their continuous violations of human rights of prisoners and their disrespect of the rule of law.
Well, ownership gives voting rights to shareholders.
But it was a film that starred Charlize Theron and it was about women's rights, women's empowerment, domestic violence and so on.
You know that all over the world, people fight for their freedom, fight for their rights.
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