Sentences with phrase «human rights stated»

As article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stated:

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that «parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.»

Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that «everyone has the right to life».

The UN Declaration of Human Rights states, «1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well - being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care...»

Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that «No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.»

As article 19 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states, Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

By way of example, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that «[e] veryone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing of himself and of his family, including... medical care.»

Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia's Human Rights State, 1953 - 84 by Dominique Clément University of British Columbia Press

Drawing on previously undisclosed human rights commission records, Clément explores the rise and fall of what was once the country's most progressive human rights legal regime and reveals how political divisions and social movements shaped the human rights state.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: «Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment.....

Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights states that «everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence».

Dominique Clément, Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia's Human Rights State, 1953 — 84 (2014).

«Also, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: «Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law».»

Not exact matches

The coup attempt failed within a day, and Erdogan was quick to use the opportunity to solidify his already increasingly authoritarian rule by implementing a three - month state of emergency, temporarily suspending the European Convention on Human Rights, and removing tens of thousands of employees from military and government positions.

The tiny State of Eritrea was the subject of a recent scathing report by the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Amnesty International says that in previous campaigns, the Shi'ite militias have committed «serious human rights violations, including war crimes» against civilians fleeing Islamic State - held territory.

Earlier announcements by the Shi'ite militias that they will be involved in the offensive on Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, triggered warnings from human rights groups of sectarian violence in the mainly Sunni province.

He has accused the state of breaching two clauses of the European Convention on Human Rights, one which prohibits «inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment», and one which guarantees the right of respect for «private and family life» and «correspondence».

In 29 states, it «s still not explicitly illegal to discriminate against both employees and prospective hires based on sexual orientation — and 32 states allow workplace discrimination based on gender identity, according to the Human Rights Campaign, America's largest civil rights organizRights Campaign, America's largest civil rights organizrights organization.

In their letter, the groups said the breach caused «incalculable harm» and suggested several of the affected individuals had already filed complaints with the Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights or other state authorities.

The United States and China enjoy a generally friendly relationship, with strong economic ties, albeit with frequent barbs about trade, jobs, currencies, human rights, Tibet, the South China Sea and North Korea.

Referring to Chinese spokespeople, he added: «They have been clear about their intent to glorify their head of state by inserting his thoughts into the international human rights lexicon.»

In a written statement, the Human Rights Campaign president said Cook expressed support for the three - state campaign when he first learned about it.

«The «feel good» language about mutually beneficial cooperation is intended to benefit autocratic states at the expense of people whose human rights and fundamental freedoms we are all obligated as states to respect,» Mack said.

GENEVA (Reuters)- China and the United States clashed on Friday at the U.N. Human Rights Council, where the U.S. delegation rejected a resolution brought by Beijing that it said sought to glorify Xi Jinping's «win - win» approach.

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.

One of those officials, Tom Malinowski, who stepped down as President Barack Obama's assistant secretary of state for human rights on January 19, corroborated those reports in an interview on Friday.

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 Turkish government's news media shutdown shows how the State of Emergency law is being used to deny the right to free speech beyond any legitimate aim of upholding public order,» Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

After a decade of backing human rights and reform, the United States is once again backing corruption and strongmen.

He said he would accept the inclusion of «sexual orientation» in the Canadian Human Rights Act if it were «clearly defined, but not if it were used as a precedent for further benefits like marital status,» the magazine stated.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Founded by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 1997, the organization trains and mentors women leaders as agents of transformative change in economic development, human rights and political participation.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

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ACC Accounting & Auditing, AFR Africa, AGE Economics of Ageing, AGR Agricultural Economics, ARA Arab World, BAN Banking, BEC Business Economics, CBA Central Banking, CBE Cognitive & Behavioural Economics, CDM Collective Decision - Making, CFN Corporate Finance, CIS Confederation of Independent States, CMP Computational Economics, CNA China, COM Industrial Competition, CSE Economics of Strategic Management, CTA Contract Theory & Applications, CUL Cultural Economics, CWA Central & Western Asia, DCM Discrete Choice Models, DEM Demographic Economics, DEV Development, DGE Dynamic General Equilibrium, ECM Econometrics, EDU Education, EEC European Economics, EFF Efficiency & Productivity, ENE Energy Economics, ENT Entrepreneurship, ENV Environmental Economics, ETS Econometric Time Series, EUR Microeconomic European Issues, EVO Evolutionary Economics, EXP Experimental Economics, FDG Financial Development & Growth, FIN Finance, FMK Financial Markets, FOR Forecasting, GEO Economic Geography, GRO Economic Growth, GTH Game Theory, HAP Economics of Happiness, HEA Health Economics, HIS Business, Economic & Financial History, HME Heterodox Microeconomics, HPE History & Philosophy of Economics, HRM Human Capital & Human Resource Management, IAS Insurance Economics, ICT Information & Communication Technologies, IFN International Finance, IND Industrial Organization, INO Innovation, INT International Trade, IPR Intellectual Property Rights, IUE Informal & Underground Economics, KNM Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy, LAB Labour Economics, LAM Central & South America, LAW Law & Economics, LMA Labor Markets - Supply, Demand & Wages, LTV Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty, MAC Macroeconomics, MFD Microfinance, MIC Microeconomics, MIG Economics of Human Migration, MKT Marketing, MON Monetary Economics, MST Market Microstructure, NET Network Economics, NEU Neuroeconomics, OPM Open Macroeconomics, PBE Public Economics, PKE Post Keynesian Economics, POL Positive Political Economics, PPM Project, Program & Portfolio Management, PUB Public Finance, REG Regulation, RES Resource Economics, RMG Risk Management, SBM Small Business Management, SEA South East Asia, SOC Social Norms & Social Capital, SOG Sociology of Economics, SPO Sports & Economics, TID Technology & Industrial Dynamics, TRA Transition Economics, TRE Transport Economics, TUR Tourism Economics, UPT Utility Models & Prospect Theory, URE Urban & Real Estate Economics.

The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilities in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Toronto: Human - rights Group Urges Sanctions Against Chinese State Media for Forced Confessions

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-...]

This includes recent legislation that discriminates against the LGBT community, as stated in a recent letter released by the Human Rights Campaign and Equality North Carolina and signed by numerous CEOs, including Howard Schultz.

We wrote Tuesday about the U.S. State Department's document, «Report of the United States of America Submitted to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights In Conjunction with the Universal Periodic Review.»

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.

Lefever was the founding president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and was nominated by Ronald Reagan for the human rights desk in the Department of State but was not confirmed.

To be sure, valid questions may be raised about whether Enlightenment justifications based on insecurity in the state of nature can truly ground human rights.

A report from Physicians for Human Rights - Israel states that the barrier imposes «almost - total separation» on the hospitals from the population they are supposed to serve.

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

The Secretary of State should rally corporate America and multinational companies to consider religious liberty along with other human rights concerns when companies decide where to invest.

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

These considerations are made even more relevant because of present United States commitments to international treaties on human rights, which could conceivably, at some time, put United States positive laws relating to abortion and the judges who implement them at variance with and in violation of a future international consensus on that issue.»