"Those values include freedom of speech, the right to disagree, the right to argue in public, the right to have a government under the rule of law, the right to have a tolerant society with a strong democracy.
As I'll be arguing in the IQ2 debate "Animal rights should trump human interests" in Sydney on Tuesday night, the assertion of an animal right to life is non-sensical.
"We argue in the human rights community that there are a lot of things that could be happening in parallel while the [African Union] decides whether to move forward with this".
A19 Widow Argues for Right to Sue Jennifer K. Harbury, the Harvard Law School-educated widow of a Guatemalan rebel leader, argued in the Supreme Court for the right to sue government officials who did not tell her all they knew of his capture, torture and death at the hands of the Guatemalan military in the 1990's.
I remember being rather puzzled as to why Rushdie's defenders were so vigorous in arguing for the right to offend Muslims.
In arguing for the right of the terminally ill to choose how they die, Dr. Kevorkian challenged social taboos about disease and dying while defying prosecutors and the courts.
He told the Commons: "If NHS foundation trusts... can muscle in on the private market then private providers will feel more justified, and the courts could well agree, in arguing the right to compete for far more NHS services".
She also argued in the book that civil rights lawyers should stop attempting to gradually reduce segregation by proving the inequality of so-called "separate but equal" facilities, but should forthrightly argue that segregation itself was unconstitutional.
This is because from the point of view of fairness – as it has been argued in the case of human rights obligations – "a sound case for transnational obligations cannot be made, intellectually or politically" [and in this case morally], without eventually defining the scope and limits of national obligations" [ 27].
The Brennan Center for Justice, the Sentencing Project, the ACLU of Northern California and other groups have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Valdivia v. Brown, arguing for the right to counsel in all instances where someone could be sent back to prison for a parole violation.
