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But some rights-based efforts underway at the state level require urgent support: Vermont is on the cusp of adopting a human rights-based health system, yet without support from activists across the country, this effort may yet succumb to the same political and industry pressures that marred the federal reform.
Anja Rudiger: With all eyes on the 'market,' health reform overlooked human rights Anja Rudiger 2010
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But some rights-based efforts underway at the state level require urgent support: Vermont is on the cusp of adopting a human rights-based health system, yet without support from activists across the country, this effort may yet succumb to the same political and industry pressures that marred the federal reform.
Anja Rudiger: With all eyes on the 'market,' health reform overlooked human rights Anja Rudiger 2010
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This tangled web of economic, security, and rights-based interests leaves us in the dark about what intel Tom and his spy friends can get off our iPhones, though he clearly wants us to keep using them.
Seth Engel: How Tom Cruise Is Stealing Your Liberty Seth Engel 2012
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Making a taboo of population is bizarre when the win-win solution to factor P voluntary, accessible family planning within a rights-based framework is actually so life-saving, a humanitarian measure.
John Guillebaud: Fewer Humans, More Humanity? John Guillebaud 2011
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This tangled web of economic, security, and rights-based interests leaves us in the dark about what intel Tom and his spy friends can get off our iPhones, though he clearly wants us to keep using them.
Seth Engel: How Tom Cruise Is Stealing Your Liberty Seth Engel 2012
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He does not accept the rightwing critique that our rights-based culture means troublemakers have lost fear of the police, but believes ordinary officers worry they would not be supported by their bosses when it came to complaints.
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But some rights-based efforts underway at the state level require urgent support: Vermont is on the cusp of adopting a human rights-based health system, yet without support from activists across the country, this effort may yet succumb to the same political and industry pressures that marred the federal reform.
Anja Rudiger: With all eyes on the 'market,' health reform overlooked human rights Anja Rudiger 2010
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They urged President-elect Obama to adopt a rights-based approach to the problem.
New Report Examines the Use of Raids to Fight Trafficking in Persons « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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But some rights-based efforts underway at the state level require urgent support: Vermont is on the cusp of adopting a human rights-based health system, yet without support from activists across the country, this effort may yet succumb to the same political and industry pressures that marred the federal reform.
Anja Rudiger: With all eyes on the 'market,' health reform overlooked human rights Anja Rudiger 2010
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It is hard to reach common ground when one person is arguing from a strict rights-based point of view while the other is arguing from a utilitarian point-of-view.
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