Sentences with phrase «also against the convention»

Also against the convention: both pro and anti-abortion groups, environmentalists and gun rights organizations.

Not exact matches

The U.N.'s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), tasked with monitoring compliance by 185 states party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (also called CEDAW), uses UNFPA data regularly to argue that abortion is an international human right.

Political analysts said Curran may also have been helped by Democratic voters coming out in larger numbers to send a message to President Donald Trump; union turnout against the state constitutional convention ballot question; or by the surprising underperformance of Republican Hempstead Supervisor Anthony Santino, who lost to underdog Laura Gillen to give town control to Democrats for the first time in 100 years.

The League says state lawmakers who were also against the constitutional convention now have to step up to the plate and enact real reforms to combat corruption and improve voting access, among other things.

Since it required a two - thirds vote of delegates to its state convention, the California Labor Federation's backing of de León was a self - conscious protest against Feinstein's habitually centrist instincts, and a sign of a strong leftward breeze in Golden State politics (the CLF also endorsed gubernatorial front - runner, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who has carved out a strong progressive profile in his latest campaign).

There were also plenty of right - leaning groups that aren't associated with organized labor who worked against the convention, notably the state Conservative Party.

Media reports also allege that UK officials are frustrating members of the Council of Europe with a last - minute intervention into the two - year - old negotiations on the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence.

«By including civil society in general, the bill will also undermine both section 22 of the 1999 Nigerian constitution and article 13 of the UN Convention against Corruption, both of which have given the media a critical role to ensure that the government, at all levels, is accountable to the citizenry.»

She is also covered under the definition of «public officials» contained in the UN Convention against Corruption to which Nigeria is a state party.

With a flourish, he also emphasized a central theme of the convention: that the Republican Party, in New York and Washington, is a retrograde organization aligned against minorities and women.

«The alleged diversion also shows a serious breach of anticorruption legislation including the EFCC Act, and Nigeria's international obligations under the UN Convention against Corruption and the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption both of which the country has ratified.

The three were also up against literary conventions regarding subject and style.

He concluded: «Model conditioning need not be restricted to calibration of parameters against observations, but could also include more nebulous adjustment of parameters, for example, to fit expectations, maintain accepted conventions, or increase accord with other model results.

Sedley LJ spelt out the requirement for clarity of procedure and also the requirement that a person who faces what is now to be regarded as a criminal charge under Art 6 of the Convention should understand in detail the true nature and cause of the accusation against him.

However, the Convention also sought to balance the rights of the passenger by safeguarding them against injury and death where the airliner had not taken all measures available to them.

Bennett Blachar and Erin Evashevski, also second - year students, represented a Jamaican man detained at Krome Service Processing Center who sought relief under the Convention Against Torture.

The UN Committee Against Torture, in the 2011 case of Mondal v Sweden, also found that the existence of such laws violates article 3 of the UN Convention Against Torture.

The United Nations Convention against Torture and other Cruel or Degrading Treatment, ratified by the UK and over 100 other countries, condemns torture as an international crime of the utmost gravity, but it also requires each state to ensure that its legal system provides every victim with «an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation».

In each case the employer was pursuing a policy of nondiscrimination against service - users, and the right not to be discriminated against on grounds of sexual orientation was also protected under the Convention.

They are also illegal under the Convention Against Torture of 1984, to which the United States is a signatory, and illegal under the War Crimes Act of 1996 (though the Military Commissions Act of 2006 makes an attempt to shield those who applied the «alternative set of procedures» from legal consequences under this law).

The ECtHR has also held that the UK — by virtue of being a member of the Council of Europe — can not extradite an individual if this would result in a breach of Art 3 of the Convention (protection against torture or inhuman treatment) by the foreign requesting state.

The right to housing is an element within the right to an adequate standard of living and is recognised as central to the realisation of all economic, social and cultural rights.32 The right to adequate housing is also recognized in other international human rights instruments including; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

The right to water is also specifically articulated in article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child [38](CRC), and article 14 (2)(h) of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women [39](CEDAW).

Turnbull also recently announced the government would ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, a key protection for people in prison, and appointed June Oscar, Chief Executive Officer of Marninwarntikura Women's Resource Centre in Fitzroy Crossing, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.

The groups are also calling on the Federal Government to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, which Australia signed in 2009; and to properly fund Aboriginal organisations to engage with the Royal Commission.

The CTR Coalition is also calling for the Australian Government to immediately ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT).

See also International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and Convention on the Rights of theAgainst Women; Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and Convention on the Rights of theagainst Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and Convention on the Rights of the Child.

It also raises concerns under Article 6 of the Convention, which provides that «States... shall assure to everyone within their jurisdiction effective protection and remedies... against any acts of racial discrimination.»