And, outside of Texas, the National Governors' Association is lobbying to increase the freedom of states to determine how to organize and administer assistance programs.
The case for same-sex marriage rests on the libertarian ideals of freedom of association that the antidiscrimination law rejects.
In 2008, the Illinois State Rifle Association gave the Reeses the Defenders of Freedom Award.
And I think what's also very important is we have not waited for the events of the past several days to bring up our concerns and the concerns of the Egyptian people about what I said: association, assembly, freedom of expression, freedom -- Internet freedoms.
There are still strong authoritarian tendencies within the state and a number of repressive laws, restricting freedom of speech and association, remain on the books.
The letter was also signed by the Association of Colleges, the Independent Academies Association, the Principals Professional Council and the Freedom and Autonomy for Schools National Association.
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True closed-shop contracts are already prohibited by federal law, on the grounds that they violate the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of association.
That method permits prisoners to have considerable time out of their cells and freedom of association at the risk of being shot if they misbehave.
The details of free school applicants was originally requested under the Freedom of Information Act by the Guardian newspaper, the Association of Colleges (AoC) and the British Humanist Association (BHA).
The Syrian people have called for the freedoms that all individuals around the world should enjoy -- freedom of expression, association, peaceful assembly, and the ability to freely choose their leaders.
"We looked at the laws, the institutional capacity to implement the laws and then we looked at what was really going on on the ground - child labour, force labour, freedom of association and discrimination, " Dan Viderman of the New Hampshire-based consultancy Verite that helped draw up the guidelines told the BBC's World Business Report.
Jan Kleijssen, Director of Standard Setting in the Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe, and William Horsley, Media Freedom Representative, Association of European Journalists, will also speak.
Sing Tao Daily reports independent writers said it was ironic to hand Mo the Nobel Prize given he is the deputy chairman of the government-sanctioned Chinese Writers' Association, which is seen as an institution that helps Beijing suppress freedom of speech.
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Rather, that the banning of someone from having such access is a breach of rights, in the same way that banning someone from freedom of speech or association is.
The First Amendment claim was similarly an argument that his right to freedom of association was unconstitutionally infringed by virtue of the threat of criminal prosecution for mere non-criminal membership.
William Horsley is Media Freedom Representative of the Association of European Journalists.
Mr Cameron said there needed to be a renewed focus on tackling the causes of poverty - highlighting the importance of reducing corruption, promoting the rights of women and minorities and backing freedom of expression and association.
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The Internet Service Providers Association said any change in the law must be "proportionate, respect freedom of expression and the privacy of users".
Our belief in their right on the freedom of expression, of association and of assembly -- we have, and I outlined some yesterday, some very specific things that the government must begin to do immediately.
Then, in December, the European Court of Justice agreed to review a complaint from three French animal-rights campaigners, backed by the European Commission on Human Rights, who say that the French law letting shooters on to smallholders' land violates property rights and freedom of association because it forces people to become de facto members of the local field-sports association.
"I consider this the opening salvo in a step-by-step process of providing relief for law-abiding Americans everywhere that have been deprived of this freedom, " said Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association.
But Lee pushed the process hard, allowing freedom of speech and association, as well as a vibrant free press.
Those groups include the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Muslim Students Association, the Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation, which is run by a convicted felon and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Mr Schily's former Green colleagues he changed parties in 1989 oppose what they see as a threat to the freedom of speech and right to free association.
One often ignored element of CSR is individual rights more specifically, the responsibility to protect freedom of expression, freedom of association, and freedom from arbitrary arrest, search, and seizure.
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When his case made it to the Supreme Court in 2000, the court ruled that it would violate the Boy Scouts' First Amendment protection of freedom of association to require that it accept gay members.
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Al-Assad on Tuesday accepted the terms of the peace plan brokered by Annan that included an end to all violence by the government and opposition, the delivery of timely humanitarian aid, the release of arbitrarily detained people, freedom of movement for journalists, respect for peaceful demonstrations and freedom of association.
The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom released its annual list of most frequently challenged books of 2011 yesterday, and the increased popularity of Suzanne Collins' dystopian saga -- in large part fueled by buzz surrounding the blockbuster film -- drove the books higher on the list.
Citizens were denied freedom of speech, press, assembly and association, and the government attempted to control all information.
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