Sentences with phrase «rights of one's citizens»

These are often carried out by state actors attempting to prevent lawyers from doing the crucial job of enforcing the legal and human rights of their citizens and of holding Governments to account.

It doesn't require tearing apart school districts, dividing educators and removing basic voting rights of citizens.

Moreover, we are aware that some foreign governments have noted the possible impact of the proposed settlement on the exclusive rights of their citizens.

Public legal education resources can help us understand the balance between the necessary powers of the police and the necessary rights of citizens.

So how is restricting ballot access supposed to protect the voting rights of every citizen?

The purpose of this directive is to facilitate the fundamental right of every citizen of the Union to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States.

Most legislation protecting civil rights is written to protect against the threat of infringement on the civil rights of a citizen by her OWN government.

Ologbondiyan said Buhari's administration had destroyed the nation's democratic order and eroded constitutionally - guaranteed rights of citizens, while foisting a siege mentality on the people.

«The Nigerian Military is a thoroughbred professional organization and upholds the fundamental rights of every citizen including children.

He added: «This is a clear example of an attempt to adversely affect the basic rights of the citizen without the clear authority of Parliament.»

However, we are on our way to anarchy if we encourage or allow law enforcement agencies the latitude to abuse the fundamental rights of our citizens under the guise of fighting corruption.»

Unlike traditional liberal ideology or political liberalism, it focuses on protecting not individual rights of citizens, but the liberties of united individuals in the face of assorted national and confessional unities.

The dismissal of the first indictment today sends a strong message to Planned Parenthood and their political cronies that colluding to suppress the First Amendment rights of citizen journalists will never work.

The Canadian Bill of Rights sets out the legal rights of the citizen in respect of life, liberty, and the security of the person, and such basic political rights as freedom of speech and of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom of assembly.

As someone raised largely in the US, it would seem through my rose - colored glasses that revolution is a basic right of the citizens of any democracy.

Since we are not in a military junta but a democracy, Nigeria's constitution should not be turned to Military decrees with which rights of citizens are trampled upon without question.

Courts which sit under our Constitution can not and will not be made party to lawless invasions of the constitutional rights of citizens by permitting unhindered governmental use of the fruits of such invasions.

Now the government is steam rolling the religious rights of their citizens and creating a dictatorship of moral decadence in the country.

The repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment was not primarily effected by the argument that prohibition in some fashion violated the inalienable right of citizens over their own bodies or that it infringed on a supposed constitutionally guaranteed equality of beverage choices.

That legislation, they say, was predicated on the application of EU law, thereby protecting the EU rights of citizens of the devolved nations.

The movie isn't so much about an FBI agent's effort to stop the terror but his battles with an overzealous general who is abusing the civil rights of citizens while the city is under martial law.

What is the purpose of fighting for the various religious and personal rights of our citizens if we are so critical of someone who is expressing their faith just because we do not like her politics?

«A decision to impose the death penalty would further demonstrate the Iranian authorities» utter disregard for religious freedom, and highlight Iran's continuing violation of the universal rights of its citizens,» the White House statement said.

However, as the model that emphasizes the national government and the individual rights of all its citizens triumphed, it pushed the discussion of rights into areas that evoked a different response.

Such neutrality is impossible given the need for government to «define the political rights of citizens and establish the tax, contract, and property laws forming the background against which citizens pursue their own ends.»

The principles of social economy, agrarian reforms, collective rights of citizens and workers, freedom to travel and to setting, systems of social protection, public and civic responsibility must prevail.

Bishop Paulose who was deeply concerned about civil liberties and other fundamental rights of citizens realized that the Emergency was an attempt to crush democracy by an authoritarian regime.

In fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other means.

In the Justinian code, compiled a century before the time of Prophet Mohammad, it was enacted that the heathens were to be baptized if they wanted to enjoy the common rights of citizens.

Guidelines could be written that would respect the individual rights of citizens eager to benefit from current and future medical and technological advances, but would also put individual rights in the context of the well - being of the larger community.

The body said it has «consistently expressed concern that incidents of high level corruption and impunity of perpetrators is deepening poverty in the country, contributing to the systematic violations of internationally recognised social and economic rights of the citizens, including the rights to food, health, and education»

In a statement posted on her Web site, Senator Clinton said: «Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.»

The rest like the future rights of citizens or future trade conditions after the exit of Britain from the EU are completely negotiable and purely optional.

• INTERNET A broad coalition of technology companies, think tanks and privacy advocates called Digital Due Process has formed to ask Congress to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) to better protect the digital rights of citizens.

«The two, white suburban legislators, they propose that the white county executive appoint a commissioner who will have parallel authority to the democratically elected school board, and in my book, that's an attack on the democratic rights of the citizens of Milwaukee, the majority of whom are black and brown,» Peterson says.

(August 19, 2011) Venezuela's dictator, Hugo Chavez, was in the news this week for brashly announcing an expropriation of the mineral rights of the citizens of his country.

In another lawsuit, he challenges the constitutionality of the federal Violence Against Women Act, alleging that the law «was created by feminist organizations to provide alien wives alleging abuse a fast track to permanent residency by violating the U.S. Constitutional rights of citizen husbands.»

Finally, it is necessary to consider the issue of the acquired rights of the citizens of Scotland.

Chapter 4 puts the case that the process for developing the NIC Principles is not consistent with Australia's obligations to ensure the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of its citizens.

One could argue to the Supreme Court that something a State was doing regarding their election results violated some Federally protected right of its citizens.

This means any country that participates in the CLOUD act can't trample the basic civil rights afforded to us as citizens of the U.S. — and that rights of citizens in other countries can't be trampled by the U.S. government.

The purpose of the amendment was to secure the basic civil rights of all citizens, regardless of race, and to give federal judges both...

The real purpose is clear: restrict the First Amendment rights of citizens to petition their government with their grievances and to express those grievances as they wish.

Palm Lane, Vegara and Friedrichs represent efforts to reassert the legal right of citizens guaranteed by the United States Constitution to determine their own destiny.