Sentences with phrase «human rights country»
Coming back to European Convention on Human Rights country list, I see that many, if not almost all Post-Soviet states (e.g. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Russia) have ratified several or all the protocols (some exceptions may occur) from the Convention.
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These findings — though not unique among the countries surveyed by Pew — could raise potential human rights alarm bells as both countries begin the long process of rebuilding their systems of jurisprudence in the wake of the U.S. exit.
Western countries and human rights groups have denounced Duterte for an anti-drug campaign that has included more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings by masked gunmen on motorcycles and others.
Yet Saudi Arabia is not without its critics, who lament its poor record on human rights, draconian executions of political prisoners and military intervention in the civil war in Yemen, a conflict that has caused a humanitarian disaster in the country and one which is seen as a proxy war between the kingdom and its regional rival, Iran.
Doing business in a country that faces allegations of human rights abuses such as Eritrea carries with it a certain amount of reputational risk.
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.
«How do you feel about your involvement in a country that has been described as the North Korea of Africa with respect to human rights violations?»
Plank also promised in the letter that Under Armour will take «other public positions on legislation around the country in support of the interests of our teammates whenever policy conflicts with human rights.»
In 2000, Estonia became the first country in the world to declare Internet access a basic human right — much like food and shelter.
Why she's awesome: Alamuddin is a highly accomplished human - rights lawyer who has clients include former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the country of Armenia in its fight for recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Generally, China and Russia are more willing than the US to send weapons to countries with spotty human rights records.
These weapons included 700 Russian - designed Konkurs missiles, which are only readily available in Belarus — a country ruled by dictator Alexander Lukashenko with multiple human rights violations that is generally off limits to arms dealers.
But the ban may actually backfire, said Human Rights Watch, which warned it could «increase abuses of workers who are forced to resort to unsafe and unregulated channels to enter the country» and thus become more vulnerable to trafficking and other dangers.
«A large part of the violence has taken place in this part of the country... is generated by the production of opium poppies,» Roberto Campa, the deputy interior minister for human rights, told AFP in February.
(If you expand your definition of «dirty» to include resources from countries that abuse human rights, disregard labour standards or fund terrorist organizations, as conservative commentator Ezra Levant does in his new tome, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the range of options shrinks even more.)
This capture of international sales is due to Beijing's geopolitical ambitions, along with a willingness to sell arms to nations that other countries may not feel comfortable dealing with — sanctioned states and human rights abusers such as Iran, Angola, and Sudan.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, more than 200 «anti-LGBTQ bills» were introduced across the country in 2016 sessions - most failing to pass - and more than 111 million people live in states without clear state - level protections against LGBTQ workplace discrimination.
As the US was rising to its power and glory during the 19 th Century, we had a horrible civil war, 15 depressions [Yes, with a D.], few human rights, little rule of law, periodic massacres in the streets, etc., etc. yet we still became the most successful country in the 20 th Century.
Last year, SNC - Lavalin defended the prison project, telling The Globe and Mail that the prison would be «the country's first to be built according to international human rights standards.»
According to Citizen Lab, a censorship watchdog at the University of Toronto, Netsweeper's customers have allegedly included telecom firms in a number of countries — including Qatar, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates — that have troubled records in terms of human rights and political freedoms.
He points out that New Zealand — a country that places a high value on human rights, rule of law and democracy, as Canada does — has benefited enormously under a free - trade agreement with China.
The report also included recommendations on the rights of migrants and refugees, accountability for Canadian corporations operating in other countries, and the infringement of human rights in the name of security and counter-terrorism.
Mexico - Daniela Rea, a Mexican journalist known for her searing chronicles of the violence gripping her country, was awarded the first edition of the Breach - Valdez Prize in journalism and human rights on Thursday.
Many feel that change in China has been frustratingly slow and that the country is failing to live up to international standards on political and human rights.
In the survey, we asked people whether they think human rights should be the Canadian government's top priority in its relationship with China, and whether they agree that Canada, in considering its trade relations, should not engage with a communist country with different values and cultures.
However, surveys have shown that many Canadians view the country's record of action on human rights in Asia to be ineffective.
The renegotiation process has to be transparent and participatory and any NAFTA replacement must ensure respect for human rights, improve peoples» lives and livelihoods, and protect the environment in all three countries,» said Ronald Cameron, coordinator of the Réseau québécois sur l'intégration continentale.
An example of what Ottawa could do would be to assess and publicize the effect that any trade or investment agreement is likely to have on human rights in the country in question.
There is no doubt that countries Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Nigeria have earned their reputations for having horrible human rights and environmental records, but I have never heard Ethical Oil directly challenge the multinational oil companies that operate in those countries.
Her voice cracking with emotion, the mother of college student Otto Warmbier who died soon after being sent home from North Korea, says her family will keep speaking out about the country's human rights violations to «rub their noses» in what they did.
Second row standing from left to right: F. Robert Salerno, President & CEO, Cendant Car Rental Group; Richard Wistrand, Senior Vice President & Chief Fossil Officer, TXU; David Rader, Senior Vice President Finance and CFO, Frito - Lay Division, PepsiCo, Inc.; Mirian Graddick - Weir, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, AT&T; Lisa Martin, Vice President, Global Sourcing, Pfizer, Inc.; Theo Fletcher, Vice President, Supply Chain Compliance, Security & Diversity, IBM Corporation; A. Shuanise Washington, Vice President Government Affairs Policy and Outreach, Altria Group, Inc.; Bruce Perkins, Vice President, Manager, Supplier Diversity and Business Development Group, Merrill Lynch; Joyce M. Wichie, Director, Supplier Diversity, Worldwide Purchasing, Eastman Kodak Company; Dick Anderson, Vice Chairman, Planning & Administration, BellSouth Corporation; John D. Hofmeister, President and Country Chair, Shell Oil Company; Robert McCormes - Ballou, Director, Vendor Diversity, Office Depot; and Michael L. Eskew, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, UPS.
For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.
One more thing CA... I contribute every day to your country... Whenever I shop at Subway or WalMart or Target... some of that money goes directly back to your country... so suck it up and learn to stay on topic... this isn't about who lives where, this about some religitard dictating basic human rights!!!
«I pray that he'll be a good president and that he'll keep our country at peace — that he'll refrain from using nuclear weapons, and that he will promote human rights.»
That everyone in this country, even this whole world, deserve equal rights as human beings regardless of who they are, how they live, what they do or not do.
Michael Posner, assistant secretary for democracy, human rights and labor, urged countries with problems to continue to address them.
Americans are getting tired Islam's dictatorship in the countries they rule and the lack of human rights.
Conservatism pairs God and country, observes the legendary Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., while cosmopolitan liberalism chooses «universal empathy rather than patriotism and human rights or humanity rather than God.»
@Mathilda — Do you really believe that we have gone into other countries to bring them freedom and human rights?
People today are so preoccupied with making it illegal to even roll your eye's at the thought of gay marriage meanwhile over the last 10 years the powers that be have removed some of the most basic human rights that even Muslim countries have!
The concept of international human rights from which no country is exempt is consonant with the idea that Shari'a, the large body of legal tradition that informs the Muslim community about how God requires it to live, is in some sense the rule of God.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom's 2010 Annual Report took note of the shift, stating, «This change in phraseology could well be viewed by human rights defenders and officials in other countries as having concrete policy implications.»
It says that 100,000 people are alive today because of the country's laws on abortion and argue that «a world which continues to pit the rights of a woman against the rights of her unborn child is not advancing human rights.»
The objectives of the Charter of Medina provide a suitable framework for national constitutions in countries with Muslim majorities, and the United Nations Charter and related documents, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are in harmony with the Charter of Medina, including consideration for public order.
Among the reasons they cited for wealth being «increasingly concentrated» in the hands of the richest is tax evasion and the ability to exploit workers as human rights erode in countries around the world.
Meanwhile, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, has ruled that the government of Italy must remove crucifixes from public school classrooms throughout that country.
They estimated a «human freedom index» for each country based on 1985 figures for forty different indicators among them the right to travel, freedom of religion, freedom from unlawful detention, independent press, homosexual activities between consenting adults.
For example — Often used by many christians as an arguement for intolerence towards human rights... I pose that every religiously ran nation like that of Iran and Iraq are exactly what the religious in this supposedly tolerent country wish to turn this country into, where science and logically thought are frowned upon and knowledge of fairy tales are rewarded.
The Banana Republics and many other instances elsewhere prove the economic depletion and human rights subversion operated by advanced countries and their TNCs.
They promote needless fertilizer and deleterious pesticide imports and, on the whole, human rights are in peril in the economic, social and political spheres when the Bank - Fund dependencies syndrome afflicts the borrowing countries.