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Yet they also «are generally the people least responsible,» said Brooks Berndt, environmental justice minister for the United Church of Christ, headquartered in Cleveland.

He is liberal enough to call Cardinal Ottaviani a «reactionary» but conservative enough to comment that Rocco Buttiglione» rejected as justice minister for the European Union because of his traditional social beliefs» was subject to a «secularist media witch - hunt.»

Not exact matches

EU interior and justice ministers will gather in Brussels on Friday for a crisis meeting in the wake of the Paris attacks.

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said on Thursday that he believes social platforms like Facebook should be defined as media outlets for regulatory purposes.

Bitcoin slumped as South Korea's justice minister reiterated his proposal to ban local cryptocurrency exchanges, fueling concern that a government crackdown will erode one of the world's biggest sources of demand for digital currencies.

On Tuesday, EU interior and justice ministers convened in Brussels and on Wednesday EU leaders are meeting for an extraordinary summit.

As of late, he has come under fire for his firing of FBI director James Comey, his alleged sharing of guarded intelligence about ISIS with the Russian foreign minister, and allegations that Trump obstructed justice by asking Comey not to look into his former National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, who Trump has since fired for misrepresenting talks he had with Russian ambassador Sergei Kisylak.

She worked as Minister across nine Canadian government departments, and her service included the role of Vice Chair of the Treasury Board and chair of the cabinet committee for public safety, justice and aboriginal issues.

The organizations sent a joint letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland outlining their shared principles and priorities for a new trade model rooted in principles of equity, the primacy of human rights — including the rights of Indigenous peoples, women and girls, workers, migrants, farmers, and communities — and social and ecological justice.

Germany's justice minister has asked Facebook Chief Executive in a letter to be transparent with users by giving them more control, saying allegations of the improper use of data for millions of people is unacceptable, a German media group reported on Thursday.

BERLIN (Reuters)- Germany's justice minister has asked Facebook (FB.O) Chief Executive in a letter to be transparent with users by giving them more control, saying allegations of the improper use of data for millions of people is unacceptable, a German media group reported on Thursday.

Elsewhere on the regulatory front, Taiwan's Minister of Justice has indicated that the country is anticipating that there will be a regulatory apparatus for cryptocurrencies by November 2018.

The issue could a key early file for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his minister of justice, Jody Wilson - RMinister Justin Trudeau and his minister of justice, Jody Wilson - Rminister of justice, Jody Wilson - Raybould.

«CSW joins with the people of India in calling for justice and for the fulfilment of the Prime Minister's promise to put a stop to the harassment of religious minorities in India.

But there was another minister, not famous like King, who also influenced her views on social justice and stoked an intensity for action.

It is a romantic heresy to suppose that once the poor and the oppressed are ministered to with charity and justice, we in the church have done as much for them as God could wish.

Bishops who promised to be fathers to their priests toss to the wolves the innocent and the guilty alike, all in the name of «protecting the children,» but protecting, in fact, themselves and an institution that has no reason for being other than to minister the justice and mercy of God.

Or, as one minister said, «How can I preach justice for the poor and the oppressed when my congregation consists of mine owners and bankers?

The Buddhist majority country's minister for Justice and Buddha Sasana (Religious Affairs), Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, threatened to bar Dias from the legal profession unless he retracted his comments and apologised within 24 hours.

However, it must be pointed out that courageous local ministers frequently suffer as they seek justice for their Negro brethren.

I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country, from savage mobs to executive ministers of justice.

The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, a black minister of the American Baptist Church and longtime Harvard chaplain, wrote in the Boston Globe: «When lawyers, the courts, and the media all seem complicit in the cycle of vengeance and blood and no closure short of decapitation seems acceptable, then we have reason to worry about the climate for justice, mercy, and charity; and Salem in 1692 seems not so far removed in moral climate from Boston in 2002.»

CSW's Chief Executive, Mervyn Thomas, said: «CSW is urging the US government to raise the issue of widespread hate campaigns by state and non-state actors against religious minorities in talks with Prime Minister Modi, and to insist that justice is done for the victim - survivors of violence against religious minorities.»

On 16th October 1988, the Federal Minister for Justice announced the establishment of a National Committee on Violence, a joint Commonwealth - State initiative with a wide - ranging brief «to inquire into and report on violent crime and violence generally in Australian society (and) recommend preventive strategies.»

The will of God is clearly described for us in the biblical ideal of the Kingdom of God: peace, justice and mercy — when the captives are set free, the oppressed liberated, the blind healed, the poor ministered to.

The Irish Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, was quoted recently in the Irish Times as saying Ireland must shift from «overt paternalism» with regard to making decisions that are in people's «best interests».

The Child and Family Relationships Bill, created by former minister for justice, Alan Shatter, no longer includes his proposed provisions on surrogacy.

Justice minister Lord Faulks valiantly tried to salvage the debate for the government, telling peers the admission was «clearly regrettable», but it was difficult for him to make the case for the reforms once it became clear the Commons had voted on the basis of false information.

Lead counsel for beleaguered businessman Alfred Agbesi, has revealed that his client under oral examination by former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Martin Amidu will not divulge the alleged beneficiaries of the 51.2 million cedis he wrongfully received.

There are some who, having felt stifled by EU rules and regulations for so long, now see the allure of that buccaneering approach to global trade; but this would not be the «ambitious global role» a prime minister concerned for social justice and good governance seeks.

Lawyer to the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has drawn the attention of the Chairman of the Ekiti State Judicial Commission of Inquiry, Justice Silas Bamidele Oyewole (rtd), to the pendency of a suit instituted by the former Ekiti State Governor, challenging the legality and constitutionality of the commission, for his inability to appear before it.

Indeed, one justice minister admitted that the cuts were made urgently and without time for research, in fundamental contradiction to what international human rights law and standards require, which is a thorough assessment of the likely impact on people and their human rights prior to the introduction of retrogressive austerity measures.

The shadow justice minister made the audacious claim: «Labour did campaign, as everyone knows, passionately, for a remain and reform agenda.»

In December 2009, he was made Minister for Social Justice and Local Government in the cabinet of the First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones.

From 2010 to 2016, he was Minister of State for Europe, Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.

Where Liberal Democrat ministers can argue for fairness and social justice directly against those who seek to curtail them.

The prime minister agrees with the secretary of state for justice.»

The court presided over by Justice Norvisi Aryine Tuesday ordered the newspaper to pay the former minister in the Kufuor administration GHc800, 000.00 for defamatory publications made against him.

He was accompanied by the acting NPP National Chairman, Mr. Freddie Blay; 2nd Deputy Speaker of Parliament and NPP MP for Essikadu Ketan, Hon. Joe Ghartey; Hon. Papa Owusu Ankomah, former NPP Minister and currently MP for Sekondi; NPP National Women's Organiser, Otiko Afisa Djaba; Deputy National Women's Organisers, Hajia Sawudatu and Diana Karikari; NPP Regional 2nd Vice Chairman, Francis Ndede Siah; Hon. Kobby Okyere Darko Mensah, MP for Takoradi; Hon. Joseph Cudjoe, MP for Effia; Hon. Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu, MP for Bibiani / Anhwaiso / Bekwai; NPP Parliamentary Candidates for Sekondi, Shama, Ahanta West and Tarkwa Nsuaem, Andrew Mercer, Ato Panford, Kojo Kum and Mireku Duker, respectively; Charles Bissue, NPP Regional Secretary; Abdul Ganiyu, NPP Regional Organiser; Campaign Aides, Mawusi Awity, Na Paga Sulemana Tia, Justice Newton Abeiku Offei; and former NPP regional activists, Kojo Acquah and Agya Sam, amongst others.

What some failed to know is that Bagbin has always been bold and frank to fight for the common good at the expense of his personal interest.It will be recalled that in 1997, he criticizedPresident Jerry John Rawlings after he appointed then Foreign Affairs Minister, Hon. Dr. Obed Asamoahto hold an additional portfolio as Acting Minister of Justice and Attorney General.

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Current Conservative officeholders who are members of the group include the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith; David Cameron's PPS, Desmond Swayne; Nick Clegg's Parliamentary Under - Secretary, Mark Harper; the Minister of State for Transport, Theresa Villiers; a Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, Jonathan Djanogly; three government whips, Angela Watkinson, Mark Francois and Greg Hands; the Chairman of the Procedure Committee, Greg Knight; and the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, John Whittingdale, who was Mrs Thatcher's Political Secretary in the late 1980s.

The former justice minister talks about backing the wrong horse for the Tory leadership, his new life on the backbenches and next steps for Brexit.

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has begun contempt proceedings against the Federal Government, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), Attorney - General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, and Alhaji Ahmed Idris Accountant - General of the Federation «for failing to comply with the judgment ordering publication of the spending of recovered stolen funds since return of democracy in 1999.»

It held that the AG should have gotten the likes of, Mrs. Betty Mould - Iddrisu, the then Minister of Justice, Mr. Ebo Barton - Odro, then Deputy Minister of Justice, Mr. Paul Asemeni, Head of Legal department at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Mr. Samuel Neequaye Tetteh, Chief State Attorney and Mr. Magnus Rex Danquah, Chief Operating Officer of CAN 2008 Local organizing Committee (LOC) in - charge of the day today administration of the tournament and member of the Technical Committee on the Stadia Construction to court to testify for the prosecution.

Ending, he added, «Nana Addo failed as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, and also failed as Former Foreign Minister when he could not account for over 40 diplomatic passports which were later found in the hands of people to be arrested as drug dealers.»

They include Sophia Akuffo, Justice of the Supreme Court, Joyce Darko, Daniel Afari Yeboah, Philip Addison, Joe Ghartey, a former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Alex Quaynor, Frank Davies, Kweku Paintsil, Ursula Owusu, Atta Akyea, Akufo - Addo's successor as MP for Abuakwa South Constituency, Akoto Ampaw, Yoni Kulendi, Kwame Akuffo, Kwaku Asirifi, and Godfrey Dame.

The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Mallami, has been invited for the second time by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters over the Senate Rules forgery suit.

As former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis argued so powerfully in yesterday's Mail, it would greatly strengthen Britain's hand at the negotiating table if our Prime Minister could claim a popular mandate for opt - outs on such issues as justice, asylum, immigration and human rights.

Rt Hon Nick HERBERT Lately Minister of State for Police and Criminal Justice and Chair of the All Party Group on Global TB and global LGBT Rights.