'elementary right' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize a fundamental right or an obvious right. For example: "All citizens have the elementary right to freedom of speech."
"Unfortunately, it was a regime where elementary rights and freedoms were suppressed".
There is an unsettling streak of misogyny running through the book, in which the securing of elementary rights for women is presented as an insidious emasculation.
On Comment is free this week, while many denounced Ahmadinejad, some commenters supported him, showing no embarrassment at lining up with a man whose government denies elementary rights.
For instance, as Alexander Stille has noted, "There is an unsettling streak of misogyny running through the book, in which the securing of elementary rights for women is presented as an insidious emasculation".
Germany is the EU member state that has pushed hardest for the weapons ban to be scrapped; it has extensive commercial ties with Uzbekistan, which it evidently regards as far more important than elementary rights.
A report, recently released by Amnesty International, shows a direct link between the security measures Israel expects of Mr Arafat and the denial they entail of elementary rights to freedom of expression and assembly.Another reason is the cast of mind Mr Arafat brings to leadership.
In a country where union activity is already curtailed, and where the desire to roll back the gains of the labour movement continues to obsess elites, it is perhaps not surprising if government and employers respond to struggles for elementary rights with such expedience.
This point of view is particularly absurd when these movements flout the most elementary rights". He claimed that, headed by Scientologists, sects were infiltrating UN and European human rights associations, financing some of their work, and collaborating on reports that condemned France "with virulence".
In them, for the first time, states and international communities recognized that there are people living outside normal legal protection and who required an additional guarantee of their elementary rights from an external body, as protection within individual states itself may not be sufficient.
