Results for “Bill of Rights”

we filed a civil rights action in Boston Federal Court charging

and reasoning about fairness and rights are needed

but should comprehensively protect crime victims’ rights by changes in court rules. If Congress

especially with regard to desegregation. In college I had joined the NAACP and had participated in a bus protest to Washington. In my second summer at law school I went to Howard University in Washington and trained to become a civil rights observer in the South. My family was...

one student leader refused to acknowledge that Mr. Oren had First Amendment rights of his own by interrupting him and shouting

against the fair trial rights of criminal defendants under the Sixth Amendment. I have generally been on the side of the First Amendment

under mounting pressure from the women’s rights movement

Rene Casin and Albert Schweitzer. Our great hope was the United Nations with its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our mantra was FDR’s “Four Freedoms:” freedom of speech and expression; freedom of worship; freedom from want; freedom from fear.

most of my focus was on domestic civil rights. I marched

my involvement in the human rights movement broadened

I began to explore the meaning of the term “human rights

I didn’t focus on Jewish rights or on Israel. There were bigger and more serious problems facing America

Sharansky and I were on a panel together discussing human rights. When it was over we got onto the same elevator. Remarkably

instead of being formally charged with a crime. I was in Israel at the time writing a long article on the practice of administrative detention (or as Americans call it “preventive detention”). I was critical of the practice though I understood why some Israelis believed it was...

it will have to make a choice: either to perpetuate its double standard on human rights