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This amendment made France, as of passage, the only nation to guarantee the right to an abortion. [27] The amendment describes abortion as a "guaranteed freedom"; [28] while Yugoslavia included similar measures in 1974 guaranteeing the right to "decide on having children", the French amendment is the first to explicitly guarantee abortion.
Freedom of Commerce and Industry (Liberté du commerce et de l'industrie) is a French legal principle established during the French Revolution governing economic activities. It describes am economically liberal regulatory framework characterized by free market access and competition , while allowing for public authorities to intervene for ...
France, [IX] officially the French Republic, [X] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
The December 1794 Treaty of La Jaunaye ended the Chouannerie in western France by allowing freedom of worship and the return of non-juring priests. [138] This was accompanied by military success; in January 1795, French forces helped the Dutch Patriots set up the Batavian Republic, securing their northern border. [139]
The Vichy regime sought to collaborate with Germany, keeping peace in France to avoid further occupation although at the expense of personal freedom and individual safety. Some 76,000 Jews were deported during the German occupation, often with the help of the Vichy authorities, and murdered in the Nazis' extermination camps .
Human rights in France are contained in the preamble of the Constitution of the French Fifth Republic, founded in 1958, and the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. France has also ratified the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights , as well as the European Convention on Human Rights 1960 and the Charter of Fundamental ...
Tourancheau and July v. France is a free speech case that was brought to the European Court of Human Rights.Patricia Tourancheau, a journalist, and Serge July, the editor of the French newspaper Libération were prosecuted, convicted and fined 10,000 Francs each for violating a statute of 1881, the Law on the Freedom of the Press of 29 July 1881, which prohibits the publication of any ...
The committee was the coordinating body which acted as the government-in-exile of Free France from 1941 to 1943. [42] [full ... of unionization and of freedom of ...