Sentences with phrase «human rights director»
Vinay Sharma, Human Rights Director for UNIFOR, Canada's largest private sector labour union adds, «We can't just get rid of workers that are already here.
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«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.
Commentary by Ryan Roemerman, the founding executive director of the LGBT Institute at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia, and Bob Witeck, a leading LGBT business strategist and consultant, president of Witeck Communications, and a native Virginian.
New World Health Organization director - general Tedros Ghebreyesus announced in a recent speech that Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe — who has faced allegations of human rights violations and «crimes against humanity» — would be a «goodwill ambassador» to the global health agency.
Patricia Jurewicz is Founder and Director of Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN), which champions human rights in the mining and harvesting of raw materials found in products we use every day.
We can't afford to have a passive Australia on the rights council, says Human Rights Watch executive director Kennethrights council, says Human Rights Watch executive director KennethRights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth.
«The European sense of privacy as a fundamental human right has been codified in law for a long time,» Michelle De Mooy, the director for privacy and data at the Center for Democracy & Technology.
Pictured at previous FORTUNE events (clockwise from top right): Helena Foulkes, Executive Vice President, CVS Health and President, CVS Pharmacy; Craig Venter, Co-founder and CEO, Human Longevity and Dr. David Agus, Director, USC Center for Applied Molecular Medicine; Martine Rothblatt, Chair and Co-CEO, United Therapeutics; James Park, CEO of Fitbit.
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.
Elizabeth Chyrum, Director of Human Rights Concern - Eritrea (HRC - E) said: «It is an insult that the legitimate patriarch of the Orthodox Church is confined to the servants» quarters in the same compound where two junior bishops live in a villa.
The Rev Johan Candelin, Director of the Religious Liberty Commission, World Evangelical Fellowship believes 200m in 60 nations are being denied their basic human rights because they are Christians.
Pro-Life Lefties «Abortion», writes the political director of the Huffington Post UK, «is one of those rare political issues on which left and right seem to have swapped ideologies: right - wingers talk of equality, human rights and «defending the innocent», while left - wingers fetishise «choice», selfishness and unbridled individualism.»
Douglas Casel is director of the Center for International Human Rights of Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago.
In particular, Lutheran theologian O. Frederick Nolde, who represented the Federal Council of Churches and was the first director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), lobbied very effectively for inclusion of human rights in the UN Charter and for specific provisions in the Universal Declaration.
Editor's Note: Harry Knox is Director of the Human Rights Campaign's Religion and Faith Program and is a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
The board of the Human Rights Commission will decide whether to ask the Kentucky Supreme Court to hear the case after reviewing the opinion, Ray Sexton, the agency's executive director, told the Lexington Herald - Leader.
The Christian Post cited Osama Edward, director of the Assyrian Human Rights Network, as saying, «The negotiations... have been suspended due to the unbearable demands of the terror group.
The best reaction would be «somber reflection,» says Halperin, who is also director of Southern Methodist University's Embrey Human Rights Program.
«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).
Previously, she led diversity initiatives at the Human Rights Campaign and was the first transgender person to lead a national LGBT organization as exective director of OutServe - SLDN.
Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division, said: «The Rohingya have been stripped of so many things but their name should never be one of them, and we hope that the Pope will use the word Rohingya in his Mass (on Wednesday).»
This idea was recently introduced by Karel Vasak, former director of the Institute of Human Rights at Strasbourg.
But other human rights specialists, such as A. H. Robertson, formerly director of human rights for the Council of Europe, have argued that the «rights to solidarity» should not be characterized as human rights at all.
UNFPA executive director Thoraya Obaid still thinks global contraceptive use is too low and told the press in March that the world needs a «wake up call to the urgency of giving couples the means to exercise their human right to freely determine the sizes of their families.»
Nina Shea, director of the Puebla Program on Religious Freedom for Freedom House in Washington, D.C., says such incidents illustrate «why China is the foremost example of the human - rights dilemma of how to treat a trading partner.»
President Lagos appointed her to the Commission on Torture and Political Prisoners, which is headed by Sergio Valech, a retired bishop and the last director of the Vicariate of Solidarity, the Catholic Church's human rights agency, founded during the darkest years of the Pinochet era.
«The packaging award criteria reflects the right intersection of science, environment and consumers because all of them are extremely critical to the success of the product in the market,» said Sanjay Ghoshal, senior director and global head, Packaging, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. «Most of this packaging will eventually go to create value for human lives; that's really very inspiring for me.»
Human rights lawyer and newly appointed Strategic Communications Director General for the Muhammadu Buhari 2019 presidential...
Kendyl Salcito is the executive director of NomoGaia, a think tank dedicated to helping multinational corporations respect human rights in their global operations.
Scope executive director Andy Rickell said: «This marks a watershed in the history of disability rights and highlights how disability is fundamentally a human rights issue.
The director of 12 Years A Slave praised the joint committee on human rights, which took the unusual step today of giving up on scrutinising the modern slavery bill and simply presented its own version instead.
This article is based on conversations with Catherine Barnard, professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge, Anand Menon, professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe, Steve Peers, professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex, Amy Porges, adviser and government representative on WTO negotiations and litigation and free trade agreements, John Springford, director of Research at the Centre for European Reform and other politicians, trade negotiators, civil servants and officials in London, Washington and Brussels who asked not to be named.
Boris O. Dittrich, acting director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Rights Programme at Human Rights Watch - 2011
Monday 16.00 - Internal Market, Infrastructure and Employment: Women on Boards, Karen Jochelson, Director of Economy and Employment Programme, Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC); Scarlet Harris, Women's Officer, Trades Union Congress (TUC); and (at 5.00 pm) Liz Murrall, Director, Corporate Governance and Reporting, Investment Management Association, and Joanne Segars, Chief Executive, National Association of Pension Funds Ltd (NAPF).
The first witnesses included Smethers, director of the gender and development network Jessica Woodroffe and human rights professor Dr Mary Ann Stephenson of Warwick University.
Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director of Human Right Watch, said something similar in in a recent high - profile piece: urging India to do more to secure rights globally.
«The devastating human impact of these events underscores that, nine years into the conflict, measures to protect Afghan civilians effectively and to minimize the impact of the conflict on basic human rights are more urgent than ever,» UNAMA's director of human rights Georgette Gagnon said.
Meghan Campbell is the Weston Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford University and Deputy Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub.
Dr. Pogge is a renowned expert on poverty and human rights, Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University.
Peter Tatchell is Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, which campaigns for human rights the UK and worldwide: www.PeterTatchellFoundation.org His personal biography can be viewed here: www.petertatchell.net/biography.
Buffalo Human Rights Center Executive Director and University at Buffal law professor Tara Melish said women still aren't on an even playing field.
Rory was appointed to a professorial chair at Harvard University as the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights on 1st January 2009 and became Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
«The government has ignored the CJEU's [court of justice at the European Union] ruling and denied the public a proper parliamentary debate about a law that will violate our human rights,» executive director Jim Killock said.
Kogi based Human Rights Activist and Director, Centre For Human Right and Conflict Resolution (CHCR) Idris Miliki has challenged Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello to...
CNN's Fareed Zakaria led a HuffPost and Microsoft sponsored panel on LGBT rights at the World Economic Forum in Davos which included J - FLAG Executive Director Dane Lewis, Russian and American journalist Masha Gessen, Human Rights Campaign Presi..rights at the World Economic Forum in Davos which included J - FLAG Executive Director Dane Lewis, Russian and American journalist Masha Gessen, Human Rights Campaign Presi..Rights Campaign Presi... Read
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Activist and Author David Mixner Freedom to Marry Executive Director Evan Wolfson Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation President Jarrett Barrios Board Chair of the Empire State Pride Agenda Frank Selvaggi Human Rights Campaign New York Marriage Director Brian Ellner Former Chief of Staff to Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and Deputy Campaign Manager to John Kerry for President Steve Elmendorf Senior Vice President for External Affairs at the Center for American Progress Winnie Stachelberg Democratic National Committee Treasurer Andy Tobias Former Clinton White House Advisor Richard Socarides Academy Award Winning Producer and AFER Board Member Bruce Cohen Gill Action Fund Executive Director Patrick Guerrero Gill Action Fund Deputy Executive Director Bill Smith
As the Commission has identified, one of the weaknesses of the Human Rights Act is that it suffers from a lack of public ownership,» said the group's deputy director Alexandra Runswick.
«DIHR aims to promote human rights around the world by engaging with all actors who interact with human rights,» said DIHR Director Jonas Christoffersen.
The motion, filed at the Human Rights Court, said «the decision to suspend was communicated to the country (Ghana) through the media by the Communication Director of the» NPP Nana Akomea.