This is not a cultural or religious issue, it is a human rights issue.
The figures were the first since the group's huge fundraising rights issue in October.
They see it as a human rights issue, especially in villages where plumbing can be nonexistent.
There are rumours that Asia's large sovereign-wealth funds might take part in the rights issue.
To grow its business, it needed more money and it had hoped to gain this through a rights issue.
"It really is a civil rights issue and an equality issue, " she adds.
Another option would be a rights issue, in which existing shareholders would be offered new shares at a discount.
If a rights issue makes survival more likely, shareholders may prefer to pay the price rather than risk everything or almost everything.
An emergency rights issue by HBOS was a flop: only 8.3% of the British bank's shares were taken up by investors.
Deputy Carol Steere said she believed it was an "important rights issue" which should not "be put on the back burner".
Human trafficking is a fundamental human rights issue, and according to the UN, the overwhelming majority of victims are women and girls.
Choice in education is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
We have tried -- I think you would hear of many civil rights leaders talk about education as a civil rights issue.
"Ending corruption is not just a human rights issue, " Pavel Khodorkovsky said.
The rights issue will now be put to shareholders at an Extraordinary General Meeting which is intended to be held on March 13.
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In August its shares dived by more than 20% after the firm said it was considering a rights issue in order to bolster its finances.
Scots form a large share of that, including RBS staff who say they were loaned money by the bank to subscribe to the rights issue.
Education -- education is the civil rights issue of this century.
On the gay rights issue, religious leaders issued a warning Wednesday about the impact on the immigration bill if Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
When the Bhutanese refugees began to resettle in the west RGOB thought that the Human Rights issue in Bhutan would again cover the front media of the western countries.
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Although the propriety of keyword advertising on a third party trademark has been hotly contested since at least 2004, I believe this is the first ruling addressing the publicity rights issue.
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Swedish Minister for Enterprise and Energy Maud Olofsson said the government intended to take part in the rights issue so that the state continues its present share ownership in the airline.
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It comes at a time when gay marriage is starting to be viewed not as a personal choice issue for homosexual couples, but an important human rights issue that affects every citizen.
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Shareholders duly signed up to the rights issue, and by the end of that year, not only had the chief executive lost his job, but they'd lost about 90% of their shares' value.
Rio instead raised cash to pay down hefty debts with a rights issue and also announced an iron ore tie-up with BHP (which itself had tried, and failed, to acquire Rio in 2008).
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