They also protect people against so-called catastrophic health expenditures, and provide early childhood education to their children, attempting to safeguard equality of opportunity.
Known as the "father of human rights law," Lou focused on a nation's obligations to safeguard the equality and dignity of its citizens in seminal books such as How Nations Behave and The Age of Rights.
"Both international and Iranian law require Iranian officials to safeguard the equality and human rights of all Christians, regardless of whether they are historic communities such as the Armenians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans, or Christian converts," Stork said.
Finally, the Philippine democratic government should represent its people, not just corporations, and must safeguard wealth equality for all citizens while also making sure that the country remains attractive as a place to do business.
State laws, codes of conduct and school board policies are great first steps in the process of safeguarding and bringing equality to LGBT students.
The holding in Gideon v. Wainwright enlarged the Constitution's safeguards of liberty and equality, finding the right to counsel "fundamental".
"In the current economic climate, it is vital that equality-safeguard practices are maintained to ensure that no-one is unfairly disadvantaged," she warns.
Along with equality, Israel must safeguard its national and security interests".
LGBT and civil rights groups are mobilising for a nationwide battle to safeguard the gains of the marriage equality movement, in the face of a gathering backlash that is spreading anti-gay bills across the country.
Internet users themselves form a diverse and powerful constituency who have worked together for more than a decade to safeguard principles of free speech, inclusion, equality, privacy and openness.
