Sentences with phrase «basic human liberties»

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There is a basic incompatibility between Islam's belief in all encompassing doctrines that embrace religion, private and public life and the American principles of liberty of belief and speech and the absolute separation of state and church affairs For Americans belief is a private matter, not so for Islam, where theocracy rules over all human affairs.

It is hard for us to enter into this mindset, living as we do in the pluralistic twenty - first century, where religious liberty is widely accepted as a basic human right.

Second, slavery is not «wrong» merely because it is illegal or because it is «socially unacceptable»; rather, for the same reasons that r@pe and murder are inherently «wrong,» slavery is inherently wrong because it causes demonstrable harm and suffering in the deprivation of a fundamental human right to basic liberty and bodily autonomy.

Basic concepts analyzed by St. Thomas — concepts of the human person, conscience, liberty, the source of political power in the people, and the twin principles of the consent of the governed and the «mixed regime» — provided rich soil for the free institutions that were to arise much later in history.

As the title of his lecture signals, Berlin's basic intellectual move was to distinguish between «negative liberty» and «positive liberty,» and then to defend the former as the only concept of liberty that could be actualized in the «real world» of inevitably conflicting interests, diverse concepts of the good, and competing human projects.

Section 1 does not forbid deprivation of life, liberty, or property, but only deprivation of those basic human goods without the legal procedures that fairness and justice require.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prospehuman rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prospeHuman Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

In addition to presenting a significant barrier to resolution of the Israel - Palestine conflict, by constituting a substantial obstacle to the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, the ICJ similarly notes that the existence of these settlements «violates the basic human rights of the Palestinians by impeding liberty of movement and the inhabitants» right to work, health, education and an adequate standard of living.»