Sentences with phrase «human rights called»

At the same time, it kept silence about numerous acts of religiously motivated violence, which the recent report by the Brussels - based International Partnership for Human Rights called «crimes against humanity.»

Physicians for Human Rights Call for Letters on Behalf of Turkish doctor and human rights defender Şebnem Korur Fincancı June 22, 2016

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Records suggest that one official made a «courtesy call» to Eritrea's permanent representative to the UN about the country's poor human rights record.

Bede Sheppard of Human Rights Watch calls Malala a «radiant example that children can be intelligent and savvy advocates for their own rights.&Rights Watch calls Malala a «radiant example that children can be intelligent and savvy advocates for their own rights.&rights.»

«The human brain is divided into two hemispheres, the left and right, connected by a bundle of nerve fibers called the corpus callosum.

It was, ironically, the ghastly violence and horrible human toll of the World War I that first inspired such assertive calls, calls that characterized gay rights movements around the world in the 20th century.

«Nearly one in five job ads for China's 2018 national civil service called for «men only» or «men preferred,» while major companies like Alibaba have published recruitment ads promising applicants «beautiful girls» as co-workers,» Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said.

The amount of Cook's contribution to the Washington - based Human Rights Campaign wasn't disclosed, but the advocacy organization called it «substantial.»

Their «No Ceilings Full Participation Report» identifies the significant gains women have made and the challenges that remain in the 20 years since the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing — where then - first lady Clinton called on the international community to ensure «women's rights are human rights.»

Chinese state media also praised May for her wisdom and pragmatism in sidestepping calls to challenge Beijing over issues of human rights and Hong Kong's sovereignty.

The UN Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to voluntarily align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment, and anticorruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues.

The report is yet another call to action for Canada to work with First Nations as partners to realize our human rights, including our Aboriginal and Treaty rights.»

He has said that Facebook's systems prevented hate speech and genocide in Burma, and human rights groups called him a liar.

Indigenous peoples and human rights groups say that a new United Nations report on Canada's human rights record should be a wake - up call for all Canadians.

The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.

Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, has emerged as a prominent critic of Facebook's approach to making money from user data, calling user privacy a «human right.»

In our engagement with China in Canada, respecting Canada's sovereignty and traditions is no less essential and calls us to uphold principles of intellectual freedom, civil society, and human rights through enforcement of our legal and regulatory standards.

May 26 and 27, 2017 at the Palacio de Minería, Calle Tacuba 5 in the Historic Centre of Mexico City «We call on social movements, trade unions, farmers, indigenous nations, migrants, environmentalists, human rights groups and all other interested sectors / organizations from Mexico, United States and Canada to come together to strengthen trinational work in the -LSB-...]

Political Life and Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.»

God has the right to «kill» every human being, but a lousy criminal called Muhammad, never had got this right.

«We call upon the international community to hold the Sudanese authorities to account for the safety of these human rights defenders.

The president's 2009 Cairo Speech, for example, eloquently called for human rights but lacked any plan to actualize its words.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

Word of the sentences came from an Iranian - based group called the Committee of Human Rights Defenders, according to Diane Ala'i, another Baha'i U.N representative.

I agree with L.Nielsen's sentiment that you are «almost there» — close to realising that this is the only life you have and that all your effort should be directed at living it well for it's own sake, close to realising that you are strong enough as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you are a good human being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.

«It is a source of great concern to us and we are calling on the government to immediately release all these human rights activists and religious leaders.»

• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»

So much, in fact, that First Things editor R. R. Reno announced in the May 2016 issue that he has become increasingly opposed to human rights and pledged that «First Things will never call for dialogue.»

So, legitimate protest against a a regime known for human rights abuses, but never called out on it by the capitalistic west, is «causing unrest?»

Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.

So this is really promotional material for President Carter's new book: «A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power» and the letter he sent seeking Papal «blessing» or endorsement for his campaign on human rights abuses against women.

But consider the demands for fair and equitable human rights that he called for 50 years...

It reshaped Catholic teaching on human rights and made an impassioned call for peace amid the Cold War.

Professor MacKinnon is quite right to draw attention to the fact that here is a very large and most important sphere of human life which lay beyond the range of experience dictated by Jesus» particular calling.

While it seems tedious, the U.S. State Department constantly calls out and pressures China to crackdown on Human Rights violations in exchange for normal trade relations.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

But if you insist then I would say, Lahwla Walaqwa Alla Bilah, and then thank you for helping me to know and understand that those things you call for are not possible and all just ink on paper, unreal and just was and is being used for what is called propaganda and that all we will harvest being over here are flags in the name of practicing your human rights or your freedom of speech.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Only a God who in some way transcends the world, who has special care for the downtrodden, who calls humans (if among the oppressors) to practice justice, and who calls humans (if among the oppressed) to demand their rights — only this God can or will say no to oppression and invite others to do as well.

I will call these formative rights the rights to private liberties, where the term «private» means here that the freedoms in question can be defined without any explicit reference to human association.

We realize that those who have been called «slaves» are human beings with integrity of their own, and that they have rights of their own, including the right not to be enslaved.

«We condemn Iran's continued violation of the universal right of freedom of religion and we call on the Iranian authorities to respect Mr. Abedini's human rights and release him,» U.S. State Department spokesman Darby Holladay said in written statement.

Like so many prisoners before him, Sharansky discovered personally what Jefferson meant by calling human rights «unalienable.»

Following Apel, I will use the term «communicative rights» to designate the formative rights that belong to all humans as potential participants in moral discourse, and I will call the formative principle in question the principle of communicative respect.

In what human rights activists have called a backwards step for internet freedom, Judge Hassouna Tawfiq ordered the government to block access to the video - sharing website for 30 days after the trailer for Innocence of Muslims sparked outrage.

Jeremiah was known by God before he was born that he is gonna be a Prophet, God blesses even the unborn children, but when a parent slaughters a child we call it a crime and when she aborts a baby we call it human right.

This Vienna Declaration, as it is also called, is a grievously flawed document that compares unfavorably not only with the U.S. Bill of Rights but with the UN's own Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

In the forthcoming Victories of Reason he will go even further, contending that the most significant advances in knowledge, liberty, human rights and material well - being — what we like to call progress — stem not from Greece or the Enlightenment or modernity but from Christianity itself.

But when the older thinkers called the Law of Right and Wrong «the Law of Nature,» they really meant the Law of Human Nature.

And, again like John Paul II, Reagan understood that the Soviet Union was ideologically vulnerable: that a steady, fact - based, morally - driven critique of communism's abominable human rights record would rattle the men in Moscow, expose cracks in the Soviet system, encourage brave dissidents to exploit those cracks, and hasten the end of what Reagan called, perhaps undiplomatically but certainly truthfully, an «Evil Empire.»