Mandela, 91, was praised for his life long struggle for equal rights for the children of South Africa while Machel was honored for her 25-year fight for the rights of vulnerable children in Mozambique.
Today, we are seeing the struggle for these rights unfold across the Middle East and North Africa.
Minister of Information Ernesto Villegas said initial investigations confirmed a link between the killing and the struggle for land rights.
The Macedonian government initially threatened to "eliminate" the rebels unless they accepted a deadline last week to give up their armed struggle for more rights.
This is the nation that cast off the scourge of slavery, overcame the Great Depression, prevailed in two World Wars, won the struggle for civil rights, defeated the Soviet menace, and responded with determined courage to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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In deciding the films to include here, I wanted to attempt a wide variety of types, times, and themes, all reflecting the struggle for civil rights for African Americans in the U.S. There is only one film here that is specifically all about King himself, since there are frankly just not many movies featuring King, besides documentaries.
In particularly pointed references, the president made a forceful call for gay rights that equated the issue with the struggle for women's rights in the 19th century and civil rights in the 1960s.
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Their struggle for dignity, rights and justice has led them this year to take to the streets, to mobilize campaigns and to build movements for peaceful change.
They were recognised for their "non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work".
The NLA began fighting in February for greater rights for Macedonia's ethnic Albanian minority but agreed to end its struggle in August when a peace deal expanding their rights was reached.
He had a special appreciation for the civil rights struggle and what African-Americans were going through.
It is a credit to all those in Latin America who struggle for justice, peace and human rights.
Ironically, the disappearance of old Harlem was in part an unintended consequence of the long and eventually successful struggle by African-Americans for civil rights.
Women in Egypt should not hold their breath or wait for a savior but rather continue to organize and struggle for social, political and economic rights and freedoms.
Not just the movement for civil rights, but the endless struggle to respond with decency, dignity and a sense of brotherhood to all the challenges that face us as a nation as a whole.
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We learned about the civil rights struggle, and the men and women who made it possible for our success today.
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem and Women for Women International founder Zainab Salbi joined Al Mansour, after the film for a discussion that spoke both to the global struggle of women's rights, and the regional differences.
Johnson's shoe-leather reporting and keen insights on the struggle of Southern blacks during the civil rights era won him the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1966, one of many honors showered upon him during a brilliant career that spanned more than 50 years.
Wright performed a duet with Darius Brubeck on "King For A Day, " a song written by Dave and Iola Brubeck for Louis Armstrong for their 1962 musical "The Real Ambassadors, " which dealt with allegations of hypocrisy for the State Department using jazz musicians as symbols of democracy while the civil rights struggle was raging at home.
When the victorious Americans arrived, they gave women, at least on paper, equal rights in politics, education and employment, prizes which women in other countries had had to struggle for.
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