She insists Muslim women are accorded equal rights but not necessarily the same rights as men.

A woman would carry on her spouse's business and be accorded certain rights, such as entering guilds.

We disagree that people should be accorded special rights based on their sexual behavior.

A society that grants substantial rights to its citizens may be less willing to accord those rights to strangers.

The Iranian legislation does not accord the same rights to women as to men in all areas of the law.

He was accorded fewer rights than a murderer would have received had he been arrested in his home.

I completely share the view that they must be accorded human rights, but the report as a whole does not attach enough importance to these issues.

This proposal would enable homosexuals to be accorded full rights if there were partnership legislation in their own countries.

Some leaders said they would continue to oppose the language, in part because it abolishes the 1959 law that accorded specific rights to women.