It was challenged in the courts on the ground that it violates fundamental rights.
Mr Cameron also wants a watertight opt-out from the charter of fundamental rights .
"You have to think about people's fundamental rights, " says Habib Rahman of the JCWI.
At home, Mr Bush will be seen as having trampled on the fundamental rights of fellow Americans.
South Africa's Victims' Charter was drafted in 2004, granting seven fundamental rights to every victim of crime.
Fundamental rights to life, liberty, and property precede government and reside in the people as natural rights.
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We must also place science at the service of all, while observing the fundamental rights of the individual.
They also addressed the specific challenges faced by countries emerging from dictatorial regimes to ensure these fundamental rights.
Judges providing purposive interpretations of their country's most fundamental rights are an important component of any true democracy.
"We're going to court because people shouldn't have to surrender their fundamental rights to a popular plebiscite, " Olson said.
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The treaty gives legal force to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, a sweeping catalogue of social and civil rights.
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We have to come together around fundamental rights and development drivers, in a spirit of global citizenship and partnership.
She claimed that the role of MEPs should be to debate fundamental rights "rather than simply the shape of cucumbers".
He had also appeared on television as part of a campaign highlighting the fundamental rights and freedoms enshrined in the constitution.
For instance, it entrenched in law the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, which gives workers the right to free job-placement help.
Discrimination trespasses on fundamental rights and freedoms and it violates human dignity.
Under Article 22 of the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, there is a provision for respect of minority languages used in Europe.
Public education is one of the most fundamental rights of American citizens.
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The European Parliament has already adopted a provision stating that internet access is "critical for the practical exercise of a wide array of fundamental rights".
The British remain unhappy with aspects of the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Humanity is never more connected than through our fundamental rights and freedoms.
And this brings me to the final area where we are leading -- our support for the fundamental rights of every human being.
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But what looks like a clash between parliamentary sovereignty and fundamental rights is in fact just a new front in an old political battle.
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Or the adoption of a legally binding Charter of Fundamental Rights?
We persuaded our partners that the charter of fundamental rights should list the rights of Europe's citizens but not extend the powers of the Union.
They argued that the measures are disproportionate, risk fundamental rights and freedoms and that the text is too vague, leaving it too open to interpretation.
Claiming that he risked suffering torture and other violations of his fundamental rights if returned, Mr Saadi appealed to the European Court to prevent his deportation.
The British suggested that it should be made clear that the constitution's Charter of Fundamental Rights would not limit the rights of managers to sack workers.
Freedom of expression and freedom of information are fundamental rights of human beings and they are under attack in Venezuela, and possibly in Bolivia and Ecuador.
U.S. officials were working with the opposition in Syria "to ensure that a transition would guarantee fundamental rights as well as those of minorities, " he said.
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