Word: asserting
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...that needs to be resolved soon. Each candidate was asked to propose the best and fastest way to conclude the United States’ involvement in Iraq. Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) both stressed the need for Democrats to assert their power in the House and Senate. “I don’t think it’s acceptable to give the President more of a carte blanche than he’s already received,” Obama said. But while the candidates criticized President Bush, they...
...example to journalists and the public that the government has basically unlimited power to do what they want, and if you try to assert your human rights, your basic constitutional rights, which we should have under law, you will be punished unmercifully...
...first things I did while in prison is start an organization called Free The Media, which my Dad helped develop the website for. Basically, it's a web 2.0 interactive environment where people can collectively brainstorm and work towards developing campaigns to help assert the rights of the media against both governmental and corporate pressures and influences. [PrisonBlogs.net is another project where prisoners] will write to a central p.o. box to obtain a sponsor, then their sponsor will write to them and let them know, 'Here's my address, and you can send me letters or art [for posting].' This...
...March 20, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights criticized Poland for having no effective legal framework for pregnant women to assert their right to abortion on medical grounds. It awarded 36-year old Alicja Tysiac 25,000 euros, or about $33,250, in damages after doctors refused to grant her permission to terminate her pregnancy despite serious risk to her eyesight. Tysiac, who suffers from severe myopia, became pregnant for the third time in 2000. Three doctors told her she could go blind if she gave birth but, contravening Polish law, refused to write her a certificate that...
...Women's rights groups assert that, as it is, Polish women are unable to exercise their right for an abortion even when they qualify for it under the existing strict law. Speaking at a pro-choice rally Wednesday, Tysiac said the existing abortion rules legitimize injustice and harm the poor. "When one has money, she can easily get an abortion illegally. But what about people like me? Nobody cares," said Tysiac. Unsanctioned abortions may number 80,000 to 200,000 annually, according to estimates by women's rights groups. Only about a hundred abortions - within the letter...