Sentences with phrase «human rights points»

For the poorest families — especially single mothers who, as Dianne Piche of the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights points out, must also deal with childcare issues — transportation can be the biggest obstacle of all.

Doubt was expressed by Lord Neuberger as to what should be done if the human rights point were to succeed.

Not exact matches

The high point came in 2012 when chief content officer Ted Sarandos famously compared Canada's low Internet usage caps to a «almost a human rights violation.»

Meicun Weng, the founder of Chinese community and news site Boxun (which regularly reports on Chinese human - rights abuses and is blocked in China), drives home the point about how the Chinese government wields influence with its economic power.

According to Citizen Lab, Netsweeper has been used to block access to websites on subjects like human rights and homosexuality, and sites dedicated to opposition points of view.

«Much of the tiring pre-purchase journey, which ranges from finding what you're looking for at the right price point to customer support and checkout, can actually be fully automated with the help of a personal A.I. shopping assistant without any human intervention,» said Friedman.

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.

«This is a systemic critique, pointing out how the board must accept responsibility for excessive political spending, inadequate energy policy, our changing climate, toxic hazards, and human rights abuses,» Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, said.

My point was that they may not be denied those rights even if, in some respects, they may not seem as developed as some of the higher animals, because rights belong to the whole human species, and thus to all its members.

The guidelines note that «abortion has once again become a focal point of human rights efforts.»

He came in saying if we just dialogued enough with China, N. Korea and Iran that that would have a significant impact on those regimes for human rights and peace because they would see our point and be persuaded to agree.

Contraception is a sin because it is God's decision whether or not a human is alive at any given point, right?

gordonhide: Those are human traits but they are still taught, thus my point stands - we are not born knowing right from wrong.

He pointed out that the human rights ordinance «had brought the community's conservative churches face to face with the problem of homosexuality for the first time.»

Brad is exactly right to point out the potential weaknesses for abuse in any system of theology (in any human system at all, really).

The League of Nations, with President Wilson's 14 points, failed; and global blood in ceaseless flood and genocidal gore inflicting millions of human casualties awakened the peoples of the earth to the urgency of the United Nations as a global guardian and sentinel on the qui vive of peace and security and respect for human dignity, worth of the human person and inalienable human rights.

Historians of the French Revolution have debated the point as to whether or not it was the ideas of the philosophers concerning human rights, equality, justice, democracy, freedom or the interests of the ordinary people pinched in belly and pocketbook that led to the uprising of 1789.

Also in the name of human rights, the number of rights is multiplied to the point that the very idea of rights is dangerously diluted.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

English actor Henry Ian Cusick is just right as the Christ — understated, enigmatic, appealing, somewhat distant, but completely human — a firebrand and rabble - rouser when provoked, self - assertive to the point of arrogance, warm and genuine.

The critical turning point was the 18th century: the age of human rights and the first democratic revolutions.

If they financially support an effort to deny a group of human beings a basic human right, one that the Declaration of Independence declared to be «inalienable» (the pursuit of happiness), then yes, they are in point of fact spreading hate.

Maybe humans just have a base need to be right, and make certain that others are wrong to drive home the point that they are right?

In the totality of Jesus» human life, obedient to the will of God even to the point of death, there is the enactment, on the stage of history and in the circumstances of human existence, of the right relationship of that existence with God.

At this point it is sufficient to say that for the moment we recognize that we are not what we might be, that human existence is in defection from its proper fulfillment, and that we are in need of the wholeness of life which will put us on the right path and enable us to become more and more what God intends for us to be.

Humans are morons at this point in our timeline, what makes anyone on the planet think they have anything right?

But on the other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that in a way it may be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole life may be sin, the well - known kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a human self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint of God as to what His will is for this self.

No doubt the church has been right in acknowledging the deity of Christ and the Incarnation as the fullest measure of the divine revelation of which human nature is capable; though it should be pointed out that the church as a rule undertook to stand fast and to hold the ground of the traditional, historical faith, enshrined in the New Testament, and — as the histories of dogma make clear - only took over metaphysical definitions which had already been hammered out on the anvils of logical and exegetical disputation.

Since freedom of propagation and conversion involves not only matters of religion, but also of culture and political ideas, any restriction at this point will affect the fundamental rights of the human person in general.

Case in point is the civil rights movement the responsibility of the church is to fight for the equal treatment of all human beings in all places at all times no matter what policies the state has in place.

We tend to forget that humans (religious or not) will fail at some point or another and will not get everything right.

A God who is so desirous of proving Himself right, that He plays around with humans lives, which mean nothing to Him, just to make a point.

For one thing, it recognizes the right of duly constituted civil authority to exercise control — and this at a point before which human nature is chronically reluctant, the payment of taxes!

To get the point across, Jenson builds community right into the definition of divine and human nature.

The real debate is not should abortion be allowed, it should only be at what point during pregnancy should we consider the embryo human and thus extending it human rights.

He points out the way in which a recognizable tradition of human rights is discernible in Confucianism and has been developed in the thought of modern Confucians.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

I myself would prefer to speak of natural law grounding human rights (this is perhaps the only misstep in the book); but in any event his wider point is no doubt correct that only a theory of natural law can rescue the campaign for human rights from being anything more than disguised power politics or cultural imperialism.

At one point Novak speaks of natural law theory «replacing» the idea of human rights.

«This goes back to the point i was trying to make that humanism and belief in individual human rights are irrational»

This goes back to the point i was trying to make that humanism and belief in individual human rights are irrational, and are a form of faith.

Anyway, it doesn't matter since we are a secular country, with specific prohibitions against mixing church and state (for good reason), and marriage, from a government point of view, is about financial and human rights.

Modern science and technology would have to be more modest, human rights would have to receive better grounds and be coupled with duties and gratitude, and the validity of a «personal point of view» on things would have to be recognized.

Forty - six percent of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form at one point within the past 10,000 years...» If it wasn't so scary, I'd be laughing right along with you.

Apparently this job is not the job of mere human reason, (although the Spirit of Truth works in the realm of human reason, showing, shining light onto and convincing and bringing about authentic conviction) it is Holy Spirits job to completely convince persons what is right and what is not right, to the point one is convicted in their inner being.

Is G. K. Chesterton right when he says that «all human beings, without any exception whatever, were specially made, were shaped and pointed like shining arrows, for the end of hitting the mark of Beatitude»?

Fourth, I fear that our societies have reached the sad point where the belief that some humans command a favored right to life simply because of their physical strength is now unquestioned orthodoxy.

Cardinal O'Brien made exactly the same point, and it's worth considering why he argued that gay marriage would be «a grotesque subversion of a universal human right»; note exactly where the language of human rights comes from here:

The app's creators point out that concerns for the environment, animal welfare and human rights has already led to meat consumption per person dropping by 4 per cent in EU countries, 10 per cent in the US and 12 per cent in Canada.

I know some are vocal on the media but the amount of noise out there would normally affect a human being and would start at some point questioning whether he is doing the right thing.