On 19th March 2002 the Court held a public hearing on the admissibility and the merits of the case, which Ms Pretty and her husband, Brian Pretty, attended. ... The Strasbourg court granted Mrs Pretty an expedited hearing after the law lords rejected her plea that the UK's ban on assisted suicide violates her rights under the European convention on human rights. ... The government had to strike a balance between the interest of the community as a whole and the fundamental rights of the individual. ...

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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishing the right to protection from gender violence as a core dimension of women's human rights. ... These reports helped to define violence against women as a human rights violation along with the duty of states to exercise "due diligence " in preventing violence against women in the family, the community, and the public space. ...

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THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA AND THE `LEGAL AND POLITICAL STRUGGLE' OVER INDIGENOUS RIGHTS[*] ABSTRACT/RESUME Many Indian leaders have recognized that the Supreme Court of Canada has changed direction very significantly on issues of treaty and aboriginal rights. As a result, Indian ...

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