Sentences with phrase «around civil liberties»

As well as challenges to the government, we could use more space to talk through some genuine difficulties around civil liberties and security issues in a way which is consistent with liberal principles.

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Most importantly, further eroding civil liberties is likely to fuel what I believe to be the underlying cause of the unrest that's popping up around the globe: a deep frustration with a system that is seeing the world's growing wealth increasingly controlled by fewer and fewer people.

I try to imagine him around the Cabinet table urging Brown to recognise civil liberties as an issue, but I can't.

Those of us who care about civil liberties and therefore want the tradition of policing by consent to mean something in modern Britain should read this book, if only because one of the most intelligent policemen around does not really get it.

Today, civil liberties group Liberty sent a van around the capital attacking the Home Office for the «dog whistle» nature of the campaign.

On both of these criteria, the civil liberties issues around surveillance and the policing of protest score very high.

Considering the huge wave of repression happening in Turkey following the failed coup in summer 2016, and the restriction of civil liberties that goes along with a political climate hostile to democracy, I was expecting its democracy index to drop around ~ 2.0 or 3.0.

«Britain has a policing model much admired around the world and the police's political independence is as important as that of the courts,» civil liberties group Liberty's director of policy Isabella Sankey said.

You can say that is a product of changes around the Lib Dems — that it reflected the return of alienated left - wing voters who cared about Iraq and civil liberties to Labour under Ed Miliband.

The script's idea of being pro — civil liberties is to romanticize the notion of British secret agents going around the world killing anyone they please.

This is a riveting story of the old frontier but also a meditation on the Western, not least the sub-genre that draws on the violent heritage of the Civil War, which Tarantino quite rightly, in this film and in Django Unchained, identifies as the foundation myth of modern America, in sharp oppostion to the more comforting myths around the pursuit of human rights and liberty.

The study guide and map offer an overview of the basic architecture of democracy, give historical background information, and provide a framework for comparing the state of political rights and civil liberties in different countries around the world.

ACLU - CT, David McGuire primarily focused on civil liberties protections for students in regards to baseless searches and seizures of students» personal electronic devices and passwords citing «the patchwork of unequal privacy policies» used in districts around the state, urging the committee to expand protections in the bill that would uphold students Constitutional 14th amendments rights.

The dispute has been percolating for months, as union leaders, pro-charter groups, civil liberties advocates, parent leaders, students, teachers and principals have re-framed their ongoing debate about the quality of the city's schools around the safety of the 1,800 schools run by the Department of Education.

In the light of recent revelations around the National Security Agency PRISM program, a panel of journalists, civil libertarians and human rights experts will present the long history of domestic spying by government agencies, private sector cooperation, and the legal, ethical and business challenges of defending and preserving liberty and constitutionality in cyberspace.

As an organization devoted to civil liberties and human rights, the CCLA endorses the Women's March and stands in solidarity with women's rights activists in the United States and around the world to send a loud and clear message: Human rights must be respected, discrimination will not be tolerated.

It was inspiring to see lawyers banging out habeas corpus petitions from airports around the US, pulling all - nighters in defense of civil liberties.

In October, CCLA joined with nine other domestic civil liberties and human rights organizations from around the world to release a report, «Take back the streets»: Repression and criminalization of protest around the world.

Armed with the support of human rights and civil liberties organizations, Google is at the Supreme Court of Canada on Tuesday to appeal a ruling it says poses a threat to freedom of expression and access to information both in Canada and around the world.