Sentences with phrase «universal civil liberties»

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But civil liberties activists question why it took a court decision to force the government to remove innocent people's DNA in the first place, saying the home office was engaged in creating a universal database by stealth.

According to them, modern democratic systems meet four basic criteria: 1) executive and legislatures are chosen through open, free, and fair elections; 2) universal suffrage; 3) protection of political rights and civil liberties; and 4) elected authorities possess real authority to govern (not subject to tutelary control by another unelected group).

The re-emergence of totalitarianism and racism in Europe, Brexit in England and the astonishing vitriolic attacks on the High Court Justices who decided that Parliament needed to approve it, the erosion of membership in the International Criminal Court, the rejection of refugees, the threat to civil liberties in Turkey, the re-emergence of the Russian bear, the destruction of Syria, the universal fear of ISIS and terrorism all cry out for a need for dialogue and collaboration to secure the rule of law and respect for human rights.