Freedom House monitors developments over time and makes its conclusions public in its Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties.

American Civil Liberties Union

Elected parliaments do not own our liberties.

Department of Legislation, Fundamental Rights and Liberties

The return of religion to politics and to public life in general is a serious challenge to the rule of democratically enacted law and the civil liberties that go with it.

The movie took some liberties with Gardner's true life story.

Freedom House monitors developments over time and makes its conclusions public in its Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties. If there is one book that should be compulsory reading for anyone who makes public statements about human rights, this is it.

The new era may not be so propitious for political liberties.

We should be uncompromising, therefore, in our defense of civil liberties.

It also includes promoting human rights, particularly civil liberties and political freedom.

They safeguard them, and should not diminish those liberties without an explicit mandate.

It is the context in which we find our liberties safeguarded or destroyed.

In renewing our liberties, we will renew our unity. We will renew Ukraine.

There is always a delicate balance, to be sure, between commonly held views and individual liberties.

A state that emphasizes security over civil rights and liberties is easily hijacked by security agencies.

The ACLU provides legal assistance in cases when it considers civil liberties to be at risk.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonpartisan non profit organization whose stated mission is to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

The case, American Civil Liberties Union v. Myriad Genetics , may have a tremendous impact on medicine and science.

Last week, King Gyanendra sacked his prime minister again, declared a state of emergency, and suspended civil liberties.

That seemingly endless emergency has resulted in the severe restriction, or even suspension, of individual and political liberties.

Over the next few years, Mussolini banned all political parties and curtailed personal liberties, thus forming a dictatorship.

But governments must also balance the need to tackle cybercrime with the protection of individual rights and liberties.

Once I realized that I could take some liberties with the subject, I did the following series of drawings.

But the more important issue, even before Russia granted him temporary asylum, is the status of American civil liberties.

Of course, civil liberties were bound to suffer in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Thatcher was always hugely supportive of the preservation of Hong Kong s rule of law, civil liberties, and democratic aspirations.

Legal and illegal migration triggers far right hostility in countries that customarily brag about their commitment to civil liberties.

Six decades after the United Nations was created, basic human rights and liberties are still infringed around the world.

In terms of civil liberties, examining the content of a message from a suspect non American source is less controversial.

Indeed, a hallmark of the Bush administration s violations of civil liberties is that many involve efforts to evade judicial review.

But both parties won after running on a moderate platform of constitutionalism, separation of powers, civil liberties, and women s rights.

New resemblances had been emerging, like the rolling back of civil liberties and the rise in the power of the police.

Yet, by responding properly to their economic and political challenges, they all delivered poverty reduction, greater social justice, and expanded civil liberties.

It is tactically useful for Russia, China, and others to conflate espionage issues with civil liberties and accuse the US of hypocrisy.

The EU parliamentarians called the Polish government s actions a witch hunt, and Geremek declared Poland s lustration law a threat to civil liberties.

Power in Russia is a product of inertia and personal willfulness, and a generally apathetic public has traditionally surrendered to the country s paradox of tyranny a weak state believes that it can function as a strong state by depriving citizens of basic liberties and the ability to make their own decisions.

They see a struggle for the soul of the Tea Party between true libertarians, who are worried about individual liberties, and traditional conservatives.

In the long run, however, the answer to Maoist totalitarianism is greater and more inclusive democracy, a vibrant free press, and civil liberties.

And documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union have Rumsfeld, in his own words, checking in on the sexualized humiliation of prisoners.

In addition, the United Kingdom is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights which covers both human rights and civil liberties.

The new constitution will enshrine the ideas of any free people in its charter pluralism, democratic rights, federalism, human rights and civil liberties.

In Tocqueville s imagination, at least, the old order s subjects had been eager to protect their particular liberties and jealous of their spheres of independence.

This means regular elections, a democratic constitution, and civil society, coupled with electoral fraud, skewed representation, human rights violations, and restrictions on civil liberties.

He makes a point that Moroccans are often accepting of non Islamic norms as reality, but are not willing to defend these liberties publicly.

The cases of Farkhunda and Rokhshana have caused many Afghan women to doubt if their lives, let alone liberties can be guaranteed in Afghanistan.