His government has further threatened to open indigenous territories to mining, commercial agriculture and damaging infrastructure projects, even citing dubious claims of national security to forgo our right to consultation.
"We will not forgo our right to self defence," says Marwan Barghouti, the leader in the West Bank of Mr Arafat's Fatah movement.The Palestinian hope is that the quiet which Mr Arafat's ceasefire has imposed on the occupied territories in the past three weeks will convince the Americans to exert a little more pressure on Israel the next time Mr Zinni arrives.
This means forgoing our right as eligible Asian American voters to appoint the government that will set guidelines--on immigration, national security, healthcare, and the economy--that will, regardless of their nature, affect our community as designated citizens.
I didn't realise until I became involved with asylum seekers in my community that if you ask our government to protect you and offer you permanent residence here, you first have to forgo your right to work and your financial freedom.
"But you start to blame yourself," she added, "because in that moment, it's almost like you forgo your right to raise an issue by letting it pass".
"The length of your sentence is based on your willingness to forgo your right to trial, not what you did or your culpability," said Jamie Fellner, author of a Human Rights Watch report about the abuse of prosecutorial power titled An Offer You Can't Refuse.
It is that spirit that the believers in republican democracy on the right and left should try to regain if we are to avoid imprisoning ourselves in our identities, to cease amplifying the conflicts that come with competing to outdo each other in victimhood, to forgo our claims to the rights supposedly attached to victim status, and to step back from the glamorization of hate.
Without a willingness to forgo higher incomes right here and right now, and join the charmless and unrefined poor in their struggle for economic justice, the middle-class socialist's solidarity doesn't really amount to a hill of beans – let alone a hill of beans with a city on it.
Without a willingness to forgo higher incomes right here and right now, and join the charmless and unrefined poor in their struggle for economic justice, the middle-class socialist's solidarity doesn't really amount to a hill of beans – let alone a hill of beans with a city on it.
Is it progress for high-profile women to willingly forgo their right to a maternity leave?
The employees are particularly unhappy about the use of forced arbitration, which means victims forgo their right to sue.
