Sentences with phrase «basic civil rights for»

I've been called a socialist and a baby - killer for voting for Barack Obama, an enemy of the Church for asking questions about biblical inerrancy, a Buddhist for reading Thich Nhat Hahn, and a raging liberal for supporting basic civil rights for gays and lesbians.

«Well, that's because the Religious Right opposes basic civil rights for gays and lesbians,» I tell myself.

«Hopefully after you take care of those important things you can take up a basic civil right for a large portion of people,» Stewart said.

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For the basic thrust of today's civil rights posture looks to the «signing, on a certain date, of a certain paper by the President,» or by a federal judge, to deliver freedom to blacks.

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Brown notes the absurdity of the Democratic National Chairman's basic position that «there was no legitimate way for a candidate who opposed the civil rights bill to raise the quota issue.»

District Attorney Kathleen Rice believes the fight for equality for our LGBT communities is a battle for basic civil rights.

No person should ever be denied their civil rights or the basic freedoms others can enjoy... I am fully committed to continuing the process of securing the 32 votes necessary for passage and ensuring that all New Yorkers can realize the right of marriage equality which is fundamentally theirs.»

It's time for him to take a stand on the basic civil right of equal treatment under the law.

Never a particularly stylish or inventive director, Hudlin directs Marshall with smooth, competent, but ultimately anonymous efficiency, periodically dropping in clunky color desaturated, conflicting flashbacks better suited for second - or third - rate basic cable fare than a big - screen biopic of a Civil Rights pioneer.

Should the Supreme Court strike down disparate impact, it would end the most mischievous and destructive policies imposed by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and would also stop pernicious lawsuits (like one just decided in New York) that seek to eliminate basic standards for new teachers.

Beginning in 2011, however, the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) began asking schools to provide basic information on enrollment in such programs and to break out that enrollment by racial and ethnic groups.

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.

Sen. Al Franken's elicitation of her lack of understanding between growth and proficiency, her disdain for gun - free school zones (in front of a Newtown representative, no less), her view of sexual assault on campuses, her refusal to assure Sen. Tim Kaine that she would hold all schools that receive public funds — traditional, public charter, private, parochial — to the same standards of accountability: Shall we count the ways she equivocated on civil rights, equity, safety and basic comprehension of pressing educational matters?

For the purpose of assuring orderly and fair proceedings and to protect the basic civil rights of any accused person, the Board of Directors shall adopt and print rules of procedure and from time to time may amend these rules of procedure not inconsistent herewith for the conduct of such hearings, and such rules shall be binding upon the partiFor the purpose of assuring orderly and fair proceedings and to protect the basic civil rights of any accused person, the Board of Directors shall adopt and print rules of procedure and from time to time may amend these rules of procedure not inconsistent herewith for the conduct of such hearings, and such rules shall be binding upon the partifor the conduct of such hearings, and such rules shall be binding upon the parties.

The origins of the blues lie in the vernacular culture of African Americans living in the Mississippi Delta and New Orleans around the turn of the twentieth century — people for whom slavery was a recent memory and basic civil rights were far in the future.

With I, the Artwork Khalili asks what the legal conditions for basic self - determination are — a question absolutely key to questions around Palestinian human and civil rights.

Additionally, I wonder how you have accounted for any variety of negative externalities associated with using fossil fuels — say environmental impacts, health impacts, and the opportunity costs of enriching the governments of totalitarian states deny vast swaths of their citizens access to basic civil rights — as a start.

I'm a staff attorney with the Public Justice Center and coordinator of the National Coalition for Civil Right to Counsel, which works to establish a right to counsel in civil cases that involve basic human needs, such as shelter, safety, sustenance, health, and child cusCivil Right to Counsel, which works to establish a right to counsel in civil cases that involve basic human needs, such as shelter, safety, sustenance, health, and child cusRight to Counsel, which works to establish a right to counsel in civil cases that involve basic human needs, such as shelter, safety, sustenance, health, and child cusright to counsel in civil cases that involve basic human needs, such as shelter, safety, sustenance, health, and child cuscivil cases that involve basic human needs, such as shelter, safety, sustenance, health, and child custody.

When the American Bar Association in 2006 called for a right to counsel in basic human needs civil cases, it gave five examples of what those might be, and housing was one of them.

In 2006, the American Bar Association house of delegates unanimously approved a report calling for a national civil Gideon to «provide legal counsel as a matter of right at public expense to low - income persons in those categories of adversarial proceedings where basic human needs are at stake, such as those involving shelter, sustenance, safety, health or child custody.»

LFW Vision Civil legal aid is a basic human right, available and effective for all low - income people.

CONAF recognizes that difficulty obtaining vital documents such as birth and marriage certificates is a significant obstacle to accessing public services and claiming basic rights — especially for women and children in rural communities — and will carry out a series of capacity building and educational activities over the course of the next year to improve access to civil registry.

The principles of habeas corpus, the rules against unreasonable detention, let alone basic civil rights, are potentially destined for the United States scrap heap if his purge of unregistered migrants is more than theatrical rhetoric.

Drawing inspiration from international black civil rights movements in North America, South Africa and the United States, Sol brought the same spirit of civil rights activism to Australia, fighting for equal rights for First Nations Australians... At a time when First Nations people were denied the same basic civil services such as access to the mainstream legal and medical system, Sol worked to ensure First Nations people had their own Aboriginal controlled services to fill the gap.