Sentences with phrase «civil liberties related»

These prominent nonprofit groups work for various civil liberties related causes, ranging from free speech to the rights of the elderly.

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But it also has a very poor record on civil liberties and related issues about the quality of state power (e.g., the database state), things which also matter to egalitarian liberals as liberals.

Watson is perhaps best known as a dogged campaigner on issues related to civil liberties and privacy.

Bedford et al. v. Canada (Attorney General) 2013 SCC 72 Civil Rights — Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — Interpretation — Life, liberty and security of the person The applicants challenged the following three Criminal Code provisions that indirectly restricted the practice of prostitution by criminalizing various related activities.

a broad range of issues relating to the structure of the government and to civil rights and civil liberties — ranging from racial justice to federalism from the right to privacy to the separation of powers from the right to vote to the role of juries — have a unique impact and import in the context of the criminal justice system.

In fact, CCLA and other Canadian civil liberties groups have pointed out that the Criminal Code is an effective counter-terrorism tool that already allows police to properly pursue, investigate, disrupt, and successfully prosecute terrorism - related crimes.

The EPIC Alert, a bi-weekly publication of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington DC, covers issues related to privacy and civil liberties in the Information Age.