Sentences with phrase «global rights index»

«In the ITUC Global Rights index which ranks countries on standards of fundamental rights, the UK ranks alongside Georgia, Russia and Iran.

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For a nation that was waiting for a messianic vision and direction from his government, President Buhari does not have the privilege or the right to remain silent on issues such as the current fuel scarcity (save for a one - page press release signed by him), the Mainagate, the NNPC $ 25bn contract scandal, the continued Fulani herdsmen attack on communities, despite their being listed as the fourth deadliest terror group in the Global Terrorism Index, and the full report of the Presidential Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate a former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Lawal Babachir, and a former DG, National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, because beyond election, the validation of the legitimacy of any government through good governance rests on this core element which is communicating.

Just like the Internet, the telegraph was a global web of wire - linked nodes operated by people at desks tapping purpose - built clickers with their right index finger.

The MoneySense Global Couch Potato portfolio (see «Indexing the world» to the right) has outperformed most global mutual funds for Global Couch Potato portfolio (see «Indexing the world» to the right) has outperformed most global mutual funds for global mutual funds for years.

The ETF pays S&P Global a licensing fee of 0.03 % of assets under management (AUM), plus an annual fee of $ 600,000, for the right to use the S&P 500 name and duplicate the index with its ETF, according to its annual reports.

On the global Environmental Performance Index recently released by the U.S. universities Columbia and Yale, Turkey ranked pretty much right - smack - dab in the middle.

If «equity» is defined as the human right to sustainable development, then only two approaches to a global fair - shares reference framework — cumulative per - capita budget sharing and «responsibility and capacity index» based effort sharing — are at all promising, and the BASIC paper clearly moves these two approaches forward.

Media Legal Defence Initiative, the Open Society Justice Initiative, Index on Censorship, English PEN, Global Witness and Human Rights Watch jointly intervened in the case to express serious concern about the costs of defending libel and privacy claims in the UK.

In addition to the official IAEG global indicators — measuring the proportion of victims of violence that report their victimization to the police as well as unsentenced detainees as a proportion of the overall prison population — WJP's Index scores provide a holistic picture of the accessibility, affordability, impartiality, and effectiveness of civil justice systems, and of the capacity of criminal justice systems to investigate and adjudicate criminal offenses through an impartial system that protects the rights of victims and the accused.

The Index provides global insights on open government, aggregate country rankings, country profiles, and scores on four dimensions of government openness: publicized laws and government data, right to information, civic participation, and complaint mechanisms.