Sentences with phrase «human rights institutions»

[17] This process is broadly based on the accreditation procedures for National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) at the United Nations and international level.

The Permanent Forum recommends that national human rights institutions and other relevant national and regional bodies, including the African Commission on Human and Peoples» Rights, promote the rights of indigenous peoples and monitor the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and ensure that the international standards on indigenous peoples» rights are translated into national laws.

Meeting in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) to discuss their role in the implementation of the Declaration, the meeting of representatives from National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) adopted a resolution today which recognised the Declaration as a comprehensive statement of rights and responsibilities.

The Expert Mechanism engage with other international human rights mechanisms, including the treaty bodies, as well as with regional and national human rights bodies, in particular national human rights institutions and the Working Group on Indigenous Populations / Communities of the African Commission on Human and Peoples» Rights.

important role of national human rights institutions and regional human rights mechanisms in protecting and promoting the rights of indigenous peoples and in implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

[23] Advisory Council of Jurists & Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, Terms of Reference on the legal obligations of States for the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights, with respect to the right to education: Questionnaire for the Background Paper on the right to education, Response of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (12 May 2006), p 4 - 5.

The Advisory Council of Jurists of the Asia - Pacific Forum on National Human Rights Institutions endorsed the idea that the protection of the environment is «a vital part of contemporary human rights doctrine and a sine qua non for numerous human rights, such as the right to health and the right to life».

HuriSearch offers a fairly sophisticated front end, allowing you to query any of four types of source (NGOs, national human rights institutions, academic institutions, and intergovernmental organizations), search in any of sixteen languages, and use word variations if you wish.

It explains which independent human rights institutions for children exist in Canada, as well as information about what a child rights impact assessment is.

The CHRC played a leadership role in the Geneva - based International Co-ordinating Committee for National Human Rights Institutions.

This case has the potential to affect the manner in which human rights claims are adjudicated across the country, and to affect the historical relationship between courts and statutory human rights institutions.

One of the projects of the interesting HuriDocs, HuriSearch offers you a fairly sophisticated front end, allowing you to query any of four types of source (NGOs, national human rights institutions, academic institutions, and intergovernmental organizations), search in any of sixteen languages, and use word variations if you wish.

Scientists have much to contribute to the work being undertaken by human rights organizations, national human rights institutions, and United Nations field offices throughout the world.

«Other priorities for the Nigerian delegation at UNGA 72 include strengthening human rights institutions; the rule of law; support for Internally Displaced Persons as a result of terrorist acts and recent flooding, and mitigating the effects of climate change.

The Joint Committee on Human Rights concluded that «the proposed reforms constitute a very significant development with the potential to transform the Office of Children's Commissioner into a national human rights institution capable of becoming an international example of best practice if sufficiently well - resourced.»

Mr. Imoru Jamaldeen, the Volta Regional Administrative Officer of the Commission, said offices in the Region were highly understaffed with the few offices lacking furniture and other logistics to operate effectively as a human rights institution, an administrative justice and an anti-corruption Agency for the public sector.

AR is a human rights institution for visual artists and a platform dedicated to persecuted art practitioners.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is to receive United Nations (UN) accreditation as a national human rights institution.

The Commission is Australia's national human rights institution and is established by the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth)(AHRC Act).

HREOC is your national human rights institution.

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Big losers will include our cultural institutions, including the CBC and the Canada Council who will likely face further devastating cuts, as well as human rights, international development and arts organizations who were funded historically by the Canadian government (some of whom had already lost funding under the minority Conservative government).

In particular, laws and domestic institutions based on the rule of law and human rights are indispensable for justice.

Still, the liberal peace is right to hold that laws and institutions ought to be based on human rights.

the liberal peace answers: The building of law and institutions, international and domestic, that protect human rights and punish violators of human rights.

But we have dramatically reduced poverty, shown ways to build institutions that respect human rights and liberties, virtually eliminated famines, found ways to prevent and remedy diseases, dramatically increased the longevity of people everywhere, and come to include more and more persons in the «circle of exchange.»

«The World Conference on Human Rights urges Governments, institutions, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to intensify their efforts for the protection and promotion of human rights of women and the girl - child&raHuman Rights urges Governments, institutions, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to intensify their efforts for the protection and promotion of human rights of women and the girl - child&rRights urges Governments, institutions, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to intensify their efforts for the protection and promotion of human rights of women and the girl - child&rahuman rights of women and the girl - child&rrights of women and the girl - child».

She convincingly argues, among other things, that «where repression is especially severe, where institutions (schools, trade unions, churches, professional associations) have been purged and subject to constant governmental vigilance,» little discussion of human rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 human rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 ff.).

The implementation and monitoring of human rights enforcement going beyond mere legislations but insisting on the creation of national structures, institutions and organs of society which play a given role is stressed.

Political ethicist Michael Ignatieff argues: «If we want human rights to be anchored in the world, we can not want their enforcement to depend on international institutions and NGOs.

And few people who are serious about human rights are naive enough to believe that democratic institutions can never be used to violate human rights.

Since the legitimacy of institutions of governance» be they democratic or otherwise» depends ultimately on their capacity and willingness to preserve and promote the common good by, above all, protecting fundamental human rights, the failure of the institutions of American democracy to fulfill their responsibilities has created what is truly a crisis.

In Conscience and Obedience, William Stringfellow has it right, I think: «The principalities (governments, institutions, and even the church) are autonomous in relation to humans; they are created beings in their own right, not simply projections of human life, and their demonic character as fallen powers is no mere consequence of human sin either personal or corporate.»

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.

Thanks in significant part to the Universal Declaration, the last half century has seen explosive growth in human rights consciousness and activism, and in international human rights laws and institutions.

What the church has to say about the secular institutions follows solely from the preaching of Christ, and the Church possesses no doctrine of her own which is valid in itself with regard to eternal institutions and natural or human rights such as might command acknowledgement even independently of faith in Christ.

While abundant, dramatic violations of human rights still dominate the headlines, the last half - century has seen explosive growth in human rights consciousness and activism and in international humans rights laws and institutions.

«Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution,» says St. Peter, «whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right» (1 Peter 2: 13 - 14).

The idea of human rights has thus to extend to the social institutions (the institutional arrangements) that would facilitate the realization of fundamental standards.

Processes of economic growth that immiserate ever larger groups of people are usually not perceived as a gross violation of human rights by most Western governments, donor institutions, or as a matter of fact, by many human rights organizations.

Since the end of World War II, Christian leaders have strongly endorsed human rights and called for greater commitment to international institutions.

The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, which scrutinises government institutions, accused police of using «unlawful and unacceptable» levels of force.

Since the legitimacy of institutions of governance — be they democratic or otherwise — depends ultimately on their capacity and willingness to preserve and promote the common good by, above all, protecting fundamental human rights, the failure of the institutions of American democracy to fulfill their responsibilities has created what is truly a crisis.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

For indigenous institutions to work, however, the constitutional fundamentals of democracy, human rights and the rule of law must be in place.

This new institutionalism has sought to determine how institutions can serve the purposes of social transformation that adhere to the democratization and human rights processes (Thelen and Steinmo, 1992).

Constitutional judicial review has become the premier institution for securing human rights.

Reverse Trick - or - Treating is an initiative launched by the human rights organization Global Exchange in cooperation with Fair Trade company Equal Exchange and is a collaborative effort of countless children, youth, and adults supported by institutions including nonprofit organizations, faith - based organizations, Fair Trade companies, and schools.

Going by what is happening at the global stage, there is again, a telling proof that «for democracy to succeed, a relative level of literacy, a growing middle class, and political institutions that support free speech and human rights is desirable.

Reversely, leaving this institution today would be interpreted as a huge step backward toward autocracy and a very bad sign about Human Rights in Russia.

To be allowed to apply to join the EU, Catalonia as an independent nation must be able to demonstrate they meet the Copenhagen Criteria which are defined as follows Political criteria: Stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities; Economic criteria: A functioning market...