Sentence examples for basic right to equality from inspiring English sources
The European Convention of Human Rights and the Human Rights Act do not include even a basic right to equality.
Human Rights Watch's research in Latin America confirms that the criminalization of abortion results in violations of women's most basic rights to equality, life, health and physical integrity and does nothing to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
While the basic right to political equality is taken for granted in many societies today and is explicit in the norms of international law (CEDAW 1979), in some cultures women are still not equal citizens.
Victories for marriage equality on Tuesday in Maine, Maryland, Washington and Minnesota affirm Americans' agreement that my basic right to marry whomever I choose does not threaten anyone.
There is no place for these and other exploitative employment conditions which deny basic rights to security and equality.
The main concern, he said, is whether the bill violates what is called the "basic structure" of the Constitution, most prominently the "right to equality," by guaranteeing some citizens preferred treatment without demonstrating "compelling reasons" for such measures.
Article 5. Every woman has the right to equality, freedom from discrimination, and equitable care.
It was the government that brought us advances like Title IV and Title IX, protecting basic rights to encourage access and equality.
The Western world was finally acknowledging the true horrors of Apartheid, a system of racial segregation that denied basic rights to blacks -- including citizenship and the right to vote -- and brutally oppressed a generation of South Africans fighting for equality.
