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  FOIANet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Liberty Institute through civic campaigns, debates, surveys and educational activities, strives to establish values of civil liberties, active citizenship, public accountability, rule of law, transparency and free market in public life, politics, legislation and within public agencies.
Liberty Institute is implementing activities directed at raising public awareness about civil rights and liberties, as well as fact-finding activities revealing human rights violations throughout the country.
Liberty institute is active both in the capital and the regions.
www.foiadvocates.net /members/li.htm   (1296 words)

  
 Liberty-Institute of Faith Based Counseling
LIBERTY INSTITUTE OF FAITH-BASED COUNSELING is a proprietary, non-profit school committed to high standards of credibility in the training, certification and continuing education of Christian Counselors.
Liberty Institute is not supported by, or in any way connected to any with church, synagogue, mosque, or temple.
Liberty Institute Counselors and staff who are familiar with church ministry and others who have served in church settings themselves are available for individual consultation on an hourly basis.
www.liberty-institute.org   (3498 words)

  
 Economic Freedom of the World Network - Member Organizations
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), Ghana was founded in October 1989 as an independent, non-governmental institution dedicated to the establishment and strengthening of a market economy and a democratic, free, and open society.
The Institute of Economics, Zagreb, established in 1939, is a major scientific and research institution for the study of economic processes and the application of contemporary theories in economics.
Its specific objectives are (1) to increase awareness of the moral foundations of liberty and to promote liberty as an individual right necessary to achieve the highest levels of economic and human development; and (2) to foster changes in social organization and public policies by influencing the thinking of policy makers, community leaders, and citizens.
www.freetheworld.com /member.html   (5881 words)

  
 -::Liberty Institute Of Information Technology ::-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Liberty is the most reliable institute that has an integrated team of professionals to help students reach their destinations.
Liberty Institute of Information Technology (LIIT) was established in 2002 with a view of meeting the increasing demand for specialized trainings in the emerging field of Information Technology (IT).
The institute is an independent for Educational research and Career counseling to study at various reputed colleges and universities in the world.
www.libertyinfotech.com   (476 words)

  
 Liberty Legal Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
It is outrageous that the school district has singled out this grandmother and barred her from an entire block of a public sidewalk.
Liberty Legal Institute (LLI) filed a brief today on behalf of a father and his daughter in the U.S. Supreme Court case
The Liberty Legal Institute is increasingly aware that international law is playing a role in decisions by the United States Supreme Court in a diverse array of issues, including issues regarding domestic public policy.
www.libertylegal.org   (1367 words)

  
 law.com - Texas' Liberty Legal Institute Has DOJ's Ear
On April 20, the non-profit Liberty Legal Institute announced at a press conference that it would reject the PISD board's offer to settle Liberty Legal's clients' claim that the school district violated a third-grade pupil's constitutional rights when it barred him from passing out candy cane pens bearing religious messages at his class party.
If Plano-based Liberty Legal seems prepared for an extenuated fight with its hometown school district, the nonprofit's endurance could be tied to its success in generating the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division's interest in its causes.
Two Texas lawyers who have opposed Legal Liberty in religious freedom cases and want to remain anonymous say they believe that the nonprofit uses its relationship with the DOJ as a threat.
www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1114679111978   (1842 words)

  
 The Claremont Institute: Religious Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Some conservatives have tried to resolve the seeming contradiction between individual liberty and the tradition of government support of monotheistic and Biblical religion either by embracing liberty and rejecting the tradition of support (libertarians like the Cato Institute), or by embracing the tradition and rejecting the Declaration of Independence (traditionalists like Russell Kirk).
And whereas we are required, by the benevolent principles of rational liberty, not only to expel civil tyranny, but also to guard against that spiritual oppression and intolerance wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes have scourged mankind,.
The view of liberty, which is grounded in moral relativism, leads people on the left to demand the expulsion from American public life of the few remaining remnants of traditional morality and religious expression.
www.claremont.org /writings/970101west.html   (10636 words)

  
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According to the investigation by the Liberty Institute activists, numerous procedural violations are apparent in the detention of Revaz Okruashvili.
In addition, Liberty Institute claims, the protocol of the search of Okruashvili and the offices was not handed to the defense on the day of detention, as foreseen by the law.
Another Liberty Institute leader, Levan Ramishvili, claims the Interior Minister's tough course in punishing criminals is widely used by police officers in Georgia as an excuse to torture the detainees.
www.civil.ge /eng/print.php?id=7552   (887 words)

  
 Directory - Society: Politics: Liberalism: Libertarianism: Institutes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty  · iweb · Promoters of a free society informed by religious faith and moral absolutes.
Institute for Private Enterprise  · An Australian institute promoting the cause of private enterprise and arguing for a reduction in the role of government.
Liberty Institute  · iweb · A Delhi, India based policy institute promoting awareness and appreciation of a free society.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=582192   (934 words)

  
 Institutes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Institute for Private Enterprise - An Australian institute promoting the cause of private enterprise and arguing for a reduction in the role of government.
Liberty Institute - A Delhi, India based policy institute promoting awareness and appreciation of a free society.
Pioneer Institute - A Boston-based public policy research institute advocating individual freedom and responsibility, limited and accountable government, and expanded application of free-market principles.
dmoz.luman.biz /Society/Politics/Liberalism/Libertarianism/Institutes   (956 words)

  
 EurasiaNet Human Rights - Liberty Institute Staffers Believe Attack in Georgia Linked to Government Corruption   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
The institute has assisted investigative reporters from the Tbilisi Press Club in the preparation of reports that have received wide play in the Georgian media, and which have forced the resignations of several officials.
Despite the antagonism between Sharadze and the institute, Liberty Institute staffers say the conduct of the attackers is indicative of a government role.
Institute staffers believe the object of the raid was to serve as a warning to the institute to drop its anti-corruption activities.
www.eurasianet.org /departments/rights/articles/eav071602.shtml   (1072 words)

  
 Directory : Society : Politics : Liberalism : Libertarianism : Institutes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
An Australian institute promoting the cause of private enterprise and arguing for a reduction in the role of government.
Lithuanian policy institute promoting the ideas of classical liberalism based on the principles of individual freedom and responsibility, free market, and limited government.
Its philosophical outlook is based on respect for individual liberty, the value of ideas, the rule of law and free enterprise.
www.senszycia.pl /katalog/index.php?c=Society/Politics/Liberalism/Libertarianism/Institutes   (679 words)

  
 Leaders for Liberty Foundation is a nonpartisan, educational foundation whose mission is to advance and preserve the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Leaders for Liberty Foundation is a nonpartisan, educational foundation whose mission is to advance and preserve the cause of liberty worldwide through furthering understanding of the Cold War — in particular, its peaceful resolution
To accomplish its mission, the Foundation will establish an academic institute for students and scholars, the Institute on Liberty and the Cold War, and an exhibition hall and conference center for the public, Leaders for Liberty Center.
The Institute will host speakers, conferences, and workshops, conduct symposia, and sponsor and publish papers, articles, books, monographs, newsletters, and periodic research notes, thus becoming an important international resource for original research, analysis, and course development.
www.leadersforliberty.org /HOME.htm   (576 words)

  
 Barun Mitra Awarded Freedom Torch Medal
Mitra is founder and director of the Liberty Institute (a non- profit, independent public-policy research and educational organization based in New Delhi, India).
The Institute is dedicated to promoting market-based responses to contemporary social and economic and environmental issues with the aim of promoting awareness of the institutional pillars of a free society – individual rights, the rule of law, limited government, and free markets.
ISIL rep James Shikwati (Inter-Regional Economic Network – Kenya) and ISIL member Thompson Ayodele (Institute of Public Policy Analysis – Nigeria are members of his network of individuals working to break the bonds of poverty in their countries – and both have attended Mitra's seminars in New Delhi.
www.isil.org /resources/fnn/2004fall/barun-mitra-award.html   (518 words)

  
 Post-Soviet Georgia struggles to find democracy | csmonitor.com
A dozen youths stormed into the offices of the Liberty Institute, an NGO funded by the US government and the Soros Foundation, and beat up several staffers earlier this month.
The Liberty Institute, which functions something like the American Civil Liberties Union, had been instrumental in pass ing a freedom of information law.
The Liberty Institute accuses the government of staging the attack on it as an assault by Georgians angry at the institute's defense of religious freedom.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/0724/p07s01-woeu.htm   (961 words)

  
 Words in Defense of Liberty - Mises Institute
In the absence of the capitalist economy and all its underlying institutions, the world's population would, over time, shrink to a small fraction of its current size, with whatever was left of the human race systematically reduced to subsistence, eating only what can be hunted or gathered.
The very institution that is the source of the word civilization—the city—depends on trade and commerce, and cannot exist without them.
As we look to the next twenty years, thanks to the Mises Institute and those who support her, we need not despair, but rather look to a future in which liberty and learning triumph against all odds.
www.news.mises.org /story/1412   (2244 words)

  
 Welcome to Freedom House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
The Liberty Institute has advocated religious tolerance and respect for the rule of law in Georgia, and has played a leading role in drawing attention to police corruption and torture of those in police custody.
During the attack, a member of the Liberty Institute ran to the office's balcony and called down to a police officer standing nearby.
The Liberty Institute has been subjected to a campaign of harassment for its work advocating for religious tolerance, and an end to the violent attacks against religious minorities that have occurred in Georgia over the past two and half years.
www.freedomhouse.org /media/pressrel/071502.htm   (416 words)

  
 In The News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
The Liberty Legal Institute is a legal organization committed to the defense of religious freedoms and First Amendment rights.
In July 2003, Liberty Legal supported the state and filed a brief in support of the Texas law to prohibit federal and state funds to be used for abortion services.
Liberty Legal Institute (LLI) filed a brief today asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to return the Bible removed from the 50-year-old monument outside the Harris County Civil Courthouse last year.
www.libertylegal.org /inthenews.htm   (3266 words)

  
 Georgia: "Vicious" Assault on Rights Leaders (Human Rights Watch, 12-7-2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Five other Liberty Institute members were beaten, one of whom also remains bedridden.
Liberty Institute staff reported to Human Rights Watch that the deputy chief military prosecutor informed them in November 2001 that an officer of the state defense security service had been arrested in parliament, while trying to use Levan Ramishvili's identity card, which had gone missing in the burglary.
The Liberty Institute has vigorously opposed the rise in religious mob violence and intolerance which Georgia's law enforcement agencies have facilitated and indulged over the last three years, while Sharadze has acted as one of the main public advocates of religious intolerance.
www.hrw.org /press/2002/07/georgia0712.htm   (1003 words)

  
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Liberty Institute members are sure that the use by Sharadze or Mkalavishvili of ultra-nationalistic rhetoric was intended to create a favorable atmosphere for the July 10 violence and attack on Liberty Institute offices.
Liberty Institute members suspect that the intruders were not simply Sharadze’s supporters, but governmental agents ordered to attack with cruelty.
The head of the Liberty Institute, Ramishvili, was involved in an automobile accident yesterday with a car from the Ministry of State Property.
www.idee.org /nij282-283.html   (5672 words)

  
 Ben Franklin on Liberty - Mises Institute
Unfortunately, the result has been that attention which deserves to be paid to what Franklin said about America and the liberty it was designed to protect has often been crowded out by that paid to his other accomplishments.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
www.news.mises.org /story/1144   (750 words)

  
 Local Liberty Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Local Liberty is the blog of the Center for Local Government at the Claremont Institute.
As for Senator Byrd, his use of his individual power to foist a curriculum onto government and educational institutions is a perfect example of the bullying of the contemporary administrative state: the will of one person becomes the law of the land.
Also in the LAT (Sam Enriquez): Mexican presidential candidate protests decision of its Federal Electoral Institute to prevent him from campaigning in the U.S. This Thursday he was expected to address a crowd of as large as 100,000 in Huntington Park.
www.claremont.org /localliberty   (5467 words)

  
 Institute for Liberty and Democracy(ILD)
The Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) was founded in 1990 as a non-partisan private organization dedicated to the research and analysis of public policy issues, and promotion of political, economic and social freedom.
The principal components of its research and advocacy efforts involve the promotion of a secondary role for the state, and an economy based on private enterprise, open competition and a social plan that targets the most needy.
The Institute’s target audience is comprised of members of Congress, journalists, government officials, economists, analysts, union leaders and academia.
www.cipe.org /programs/global/partners/program7e46.htm   (127 words)

  
 Liberty Institute
It considers that the institutional arrangements adopted to tackle the problem should be the one that maximises net-income generation in the long run and on a sustainable basis.
In this paper the author traces the roots of sustainable development to economic control instituted by the socialist planning that saw the rise of apparently apolitical technocrats.
The author seeks to highlight the danger to individual liberty, freedom of choice and democratic institutions posed by this new breed of apolitical experts.
www.libertyindia.org /jscentre.htm   (2441 words)

  
 East Asia and the Indian Subcontinent (ISIL Freedom Network)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Liberty Institute was founded in 1997 to promote awareness and appreciation of the four institutional pillars of a free society: individual rights, the rule of law, limited government and free markets.
One man, one vote is history, civil liberties reduced, private ownership of Hong Kong firms cronyized to mainland insiders, and English language education curtailed in spite of parents' wishes.
Co-sponsored by Liberty Institute and the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.
www.isil.org /network/asia   (2982 words)

  
 WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR: THE LIBERTY INSTITUTE
Barun Mitra, president of the Liberty Institute in New Delhi, comes immediately to mind as one who works tirelessly to teach the principles of a free society to his fellow Indians.
Linda Whetstone also brought new meaning to the Liberty Institute's motto: "Where the Mind is Without Fear" as she tied it to the visions of her father, Atlas's founder, Sir Antony Fisher.
Liberty's recent newsletter (May 1999) gives a good synopsis of recent activities at the institute.
www.atlasusa.org /highlight_archive/1999/H1999-03-LibertyInstitute.html   (805 words)

  
 Debate - Institute - Liberty University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
The Liberty Debate Institute is a summer workshop open to all high school students of all experience levels.
It is designed for beginning students who want to learn how to debate in the classroom or in competition as well as for intermediate and advanced (junior varsity and varsity) debaters who want to sharpen their debating skills and knowledge while getting a head start on preparing for the competitive debate season.
Students at the Liberty Debate Institute have access to a private computer lab (no fighting the rest of the student body for time on a computer), an on-site copier, a workroom for cutting evidence, and a high-tech classroom for topic lectures.
www.collegeyourway.net /academics/communications/debate/index.cfm?PID=1030   (471 words)

  
 Liberty-oriented links
We are committed to the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.
Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
Lew Rockwell, founder and president of the Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala., and vice president of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, Cal., is an opponent of the central state, its wars and its socialism...
www.smith.mn /liblinks   (3486 words)

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