Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] rights [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) in late August 1989 visited prisons at the request of the government , which claimed that organizations such as the permanent human rights commission ( CPDH ) and the support group for families of political prisoners were falsely estimating that there were between 6,000 and 7,000 inmates . |
| 2 | The legislation , hailed as the strongest civil rights protection for the disabled anywhere in the world , prohibited discrimination in employment , public accommodation , transport or telecommunications . |
| 3 | As tensions and clashes continued in eastern Ethiopia between government forces and forces of the Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) , an organization known as the Ethiopian Human Rights Council on July 16 published in Addis Ababa a report claiming that 13 people had been summarily executed by the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) in the period March to June 1992 . |
| 4 | Just 13 days ago the couple seemed happy enough at the New York premiere of Malcolm X , the controversial film about the black civil rights leader . |
| 5 | It provides a useful point of departure for a historian of the present-day civil rights movement in the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | Independent living forms part of the aims of the international civil rights movement of disabled people . |
| 7 | It then traces the development of the conflict from the seminal activities of the Catholic civil rights protest of 1968 to the introduction of the British Army in 1972 . |
| 8 | As anticipated , the assembly elected the leader of the victorious Human Rights Protection Party , Tofilau Eti Alesana , for a further three-year term as Prime Minister . |
| 9 | Danielle Mitterrand , head of the privately-funded human rights group France-Libertes , told reporters searches were under way for more bodies in the debris of the hospital at Raniya after the air raids on Saturday and Sunday . |
| 10 | An additional kind of refusal was provided by the activities of the various civil rights movements , starting with blacks , then incorporating gay and women 's liberation . |
| 11 | A SON of Martin Luther King and a number of the assassinated civil rights leader 's associates yesterday described as ‘ frightening ’ and ‘ sick ’ a newspaper report that the US army spied on King using informants , spy planes and elite troops . |
| 12 | Kurdish journalists , local politicians and members of the Turkish Human Rights Association have been the principal victims of extra-judicial executions . |
| 13 | YAVUZ BINBAY : a shopkeeper and president of the Turkish Human Rights Association , he was severely beaten by police on the morning of 21 March 1992 after he had attended celebrations of Nevruz , the Kurdish New Year ; |
| 14 | Last but not least we have the Communist Party led by that veteran Miss Sinclair , who is the chairman of the whole civil rights movement . |
| 15 | On July 2 a commission of inquiry was announced , composed of six lawyers and human rights activists , including Kamel Rezzak Bara , chairman of the National Human Rights Monitoring Group , and Yousef Fethallah , head of the Algerian League of Human Rights . |
| 16 | Marco Tulio Hernández , 28 , a member of the Honduran Human Rights Defence Committee and of the Committee of Relatives of Missing Detainees in Honduras was shot dead in San Pedro Sula on July 22 ; the military was widely believed to be responsible . |
| 17 | This march was modelled on the famous Selma-Montgomery march of the American Civil Rights campaign . |
| 18 | We are the inheritors of a political culture that does not have a history of mass street action : civil disobedience , yes , but never on the scale of the American civil rights movement . |
| 19 | Danforth 's efforts to draw up a compromise bill followed the approval of a Democrat-sponsored civil rights bill by the House of Representatives and a pledge by Bush that he would veto the measure if it was endorsed by the Senate . |
| 20 | Ali Haroun , who had entered the Cabinet at the head of a new Human Rights Ministry in June 1991 , and since January had been a member of the HCS , was no longer a member of the Cabinet . |
| 21 | The Quebec authorities proposed the creation of a special human rights tribunal to try Mohawks charged with offences during the siege , while Indian leaders demanded that Indian police agencies be established because of the widespread distrust of white law enforcement . |
| 22 | The formation of a National Human Rights Society led by the former Prime Minister , Tunku Abdul Rahman , was announced on Aug. 29 , 1989 . |
| 23 | The ‘ central element ’ of the new government 's policy was to be the creation of a national human rights commission . |
| 24 | AI welcomed the formation by the Tunisian Government of an official human rights council on 9 April 1991 , although the organization remained concerned at continuing reports of torture and ill-treatment of political detainees in garde à vue detention . |
| 25 | Part of the answer lies in the growth of an Irish Civil Rights movement , stimulated , in turn , by the emergence of a larger , better-educated Catholic middle class , less willing to accept a status of inferiority and blatant discrimination than earlier generations . |
| 26 | Sebastian Arcos Bergnes , vice-president of an unofficial human rights group , was brought to trial in early October for ‘ enemy propaganda ’ ; the prosecution has called for a six year sentence . |
| 27 | Little Rock had forced the Eisenhower administration to act and in the same year , 1957 , the President had put his support behind the first Civil Rights Act passed for over 80 years . |
| 28 | Your letter condemns governments for persistently refusing to recognise rape and sexual abuse as a serious human rights violation . |
| 29 | Through a local human rights group , to whom copies of appeals had been sent , he got hold of photocopies of all the letters from around the world that had been written on his behalf . |
| 30 | The use of the term ‘ civil rights ’ by NICRA inevitably invites comparisons with the Black civil rights movement in the United States . |