Sentences with phrase «human protection first»

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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released a list of toxic chemicals that will be the first reviewed under a recently enacted law that gives regulators increased authority to ban substances shown to endanger human health.

First, it is not only the Judeo - Christian ethic that provides a foundation for the protection of human life.

Christian education is in the world and for the world... man must work out his salvation in the concrete situation in which God has placed him; not by protection but by contributing to the whole human community of which he is an integral and inseparable part... parents, who have the first and the inalienable right and duty to educate their children, should enjoy true freedom in the choice of their schools, etc..»

Much of the discussion of the first directive has concentrated on the issue of non-violence, but it also says that «the lives of animals and plants... deserve protection, preservation and care».18 The church's record on this issue has been subject to criticism, and certainly modern European society has tended to exploit the natural world and to emphasize the gap between human and other forms of life.

The protection of innocent human life is the first responsibility of the limited state, and abortion is inescapably a public question.

The first is this: «The goal of conscientious Catholic politicians must be the maximum possible legal protection for unborn human life.

However, «The AAP Section on Breastfeeding, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Family Physicians, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, and many other health organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.2, 127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year of life.

‡ 2,127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year of life.

If a future Tory government carries out its plan, and withdraws from the European Convention, the UK government would be embracing pariah status; the first worldwide to introduce a new bill of rights with the aim of providing fewer rights to its citizens.Without the protection of European human rights law, UK citizens will be left systematically vulnerable.

It is a matter of first principles, however, that if Ted Cruz renounces any possible citizenship in Canada and makes it a public record, then that is his unalienable human right, and one of the protections implied by his American citizenship is shelter and protection from any sovereignty who says otherwise.

1118 - FCO - For first time in 64 year history the Commonwealth will have a formal Charter setting out core values: democracy; human rights; peace and security; tolerance, respect and understanding; freedom of expression; separation of powers; rule of law; good governance; sustainable development; environmental protection; access to health, education, food and shelter; gender equality; and the importance of young people and civil society.

At Human Rights First, he helped the organization earn a reputation for leadership in the areas of refugee protection, advancing a rights - based approach to national security, challenging crimes against humanity, and combating discrimination.

The British government is «the first government in the world that has issued patent protection on a human being at any stage in development,» claims author - activist Jeremy Rifkin of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C..

The committee's first report, Preserving Public Trust: Accreditation and Human Research Participant Protection Programs, was issued in 2001.

But in 1976, the U.S. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research — the country's first bioethics policy effort — issued a report that effectively brought human challenge experiments in prisons to a Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research — the country's first bioethics policy effort — issued a report that effectively brought human challenge experiments in prisons to a human challenge experiments in prisons to a halt.

What it gets right: Of any film on the list, I, Robot addresses Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics most directly: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2) A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said greenhouse gases from aircraft endanger human health, taking the first step toward regulating emissions from the domestic aviation industry.

«These are very promising findings and, as the first study to demonstrate protection from Zika in the pregnancy setting, are an important development in our efforts to combat Zika virus,» said Michael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, and Associate Director, Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Program at Washington University School of Medicine, and a lead author on the Cell paper.

As noted above, the first three metrics are associated with regulatory standards in different world regions for the protection of human health to acute or short - term exposure to ozone.

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, June 14, 2016 — American Humane, the country's first national humane organization, and the first to create historic protections for animals on farms and ranches, film and television, and other environments where animals live in human care, is announcing today the launch of a global program dedicated to helping ensure the welfare and humane treatment of the remarkable, endangered and disappearing animals living in the world's zoos and aquariums.

The email, dated 3 June 2002, reveals how White House officials wanted the CEI's help to play down the impact of a report last summer by the government's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in which the US admitted for the first time that humans are contributing to global warming.

This paper first presents the background to and context of current discussions and approaches surrounding climate change - related human mobility across borders (Part 1) before identifying the normative gaps in the present international protection regime together with institutional and operational shortcomings (Part 2).

First, the Court requires that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) effectively respects in its jurisprudence the CJEU's findings in Melloni and thereby gives supremacy to the primacy, unity and effectiveness of EU law over fundamental rights protection under the ECHR.

Eleanor Acer is the director of Human Rights First's Refugee Protection program where she oversees Human Rights First's pro bono representation program and advocacy on issues relating to refugee protection, asylum, and migrants&raquProtection program where she oversees Human Rights First's pro bono representation program and advocacy on issues relating to refugee protection, asylum, and migrants&raquprotection, asylum, and migrants» rights.

Eleanor Acer is the director of Human Rights First's Refugee Protection program where she oversees Human Rights First's pro...

Society of Human Resource Managers — Member State Bar of Montana American Bar Association Montana Defense Trial Lawyers Association First Judicial District Bar Association Lawyers» Fund for Client Protection, Board Member

• Animal Welfare • Child Protection • Class action litigation • Construction claims • Defamation • Employment law • Environmental liability claims • First party property claims (fire, explosion, theft, vandalism, and other weather - related claims) • Human Rights • Landlord / tenant matters • Occupier liability claims • Quasi-criminal prosecutions • Special risks • Transportation matters

The New York Legislature passed two bills in the first half of 2015 that amended the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL) to provide additional protections for pregnant employees and employees who have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.

The first case to be brought before the European Commission for the Protection of Human Rights against Cyprus was the case of Mavronichis v Cyprus (App.

«People have been sharing their meals with dogs since the very first canine joined humans for the share benefits of companionship, protection, and hunting,» says Andrea Arden, pet expert, dog trainer, and author of Barron's Dog Training Bible.

Although human rights belong to all individuals, they have special significance for Indigenous people — the first owners of this land, members of its most enduring cultures, and individuals for whom the issue of rights protection has great and continuing importance.

[38] Although the Intervention was not the first example of the Australian Government failing to comply with international human rights standards, it was a prescient reminder that the doctrines of representative and responsible government in Australia are at their weakest when relied upon to provide adequate safeguards for Indigenous rights protection in Australia.