I believe that it is important that children should be given independent rights.

I therefore hope that you will also agree to the independent rights that we want to grant them.

Although this view evolved to having independent rights for the wife, the concept of marital rape not as a crime went on with few challenges.

These have produced a conflict between state and parents' interests, whilst failing to advance the independent rights of children.

Most independent rights advocates in Iran have been forced into exile or into silence.

The same with the refusal to give the Kurds the independent rights over the northern oil-fields that they demanded.

Of course, it would be tempting to suggest that the independent rights of children are being forgotten in all of this.

It imposed a patriarchal model of identity, depriving married women of their independent rights and status.

The right to food and the right to housing have subsequently been defined as independent rights in other human rights instruments.

This overlap was not consistent with the notion that section 28(1)(c) created separate and independent rights for children and their parents.

He based his decision on several pieces of historical evidence, including a Supreme Court decision in 1910 that recognized Virginia's independent rights to the Potomac.

Seventy years ago your founder Eglantine Jebb drafted a revolutionary and challenging document, a charter which stated that each child has independent rights.

The administration shunned the scrutiny of independent rights monitors like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

Some parishes contained chapelries or chapels-of-ease, which may or may not have had independent rights to perform baptism, marriage and burial ceremonies.

You tell me she acknowledged in a letter to you "that it never occurred to her until last year that you had any independent rights in our money."

It argues that beyond the principle that a nation should have independent rights, Brittany also has everything to gain by such a process of emancipation, on economic, cultural or environmental fronts.

From the time of Venad Kings, had enjoyed independent rights in several respects over the neighbouring regions and temples and at times even over the entire Venad.

The government also announced amendments to Bahrain's laws - the penal code will be changed to criminalise all forms of torture and a national independent rights body will be formed.

The process went furthest in Lutheran Germany, above all in Prussia, where the Church possessed virtually no independent rights, and the ruler had absolute powers over all forms of religious activity.

SOCAN contended that copyright owners are entitled to compensation for communication of their works through internet downloads since reproduction and communication are different and independent rights under the Act.

"Maybe it's a 'Lord of the Flies'-type situation where basic social norms break down," said Mr. Garlasco, who is now a senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch, an independent rights monitor.

The standoff prolonged a crisis that has dominated politics here for a month and has prompted criticism of Slovenia from the Council of Europe, the Continent's human rights monitor, and from independent rights groups.

The position of women particularly was very important: equal pay for equal work, equal treatment by social security, independent rights in pensions and social security and a number of regulations relating to the combination of work and care.

This conflict marked the turning point where Rome became the dominant power in Latium although it still recognized the autonomy and independent rights of the various Latin city states and did not annex any of the cities to its banners.

Just as the Central Swiss communities around the Vierwaldstattersee had to struggle for their independent rights against the Austrian Hapsburgs, their confederates to the west of Bern had to confront the might of the Burgundian realm.