Sentences with phrase «most human rights»

Since the realization of most human rights is at least partly constrained by the availability of scarce resources, and since this constraint can not be eliminated overnight, the international human rights law explicitly allows for progressive realization of rights... While the idea of progressive achievement is common to all approaches to policy - making, the distinctiveness of the human rights approach is that it imposes certain conditions on the behaviour of the State so that it can not use progressive realization as an excuse for deferring or relaxing its efforts.

In the United Kingdom, top government aides have lauded China's method of population control, ignoring the fact that it has been the primary source of the most human rights abuses of any government policy on the planet.

Most human rights instruments only empower states to act against states as opposed to empowering individuals or groups to act in their own interests.

Farmer argues that «careful study reveals that state power has been responsible for most human rights violations and that most violations are embedded in «structural violence» — social and economic inequities that determine who will be at risk for assaults and who will be shielded.

Most human rights documents concerning youth give them the explicit right to have a say in the matters that affect them.

Most human rights advocates maintain that such a right exists; the Universal Declaration on Human Rights expressly refers to it.

Islam is more than a religion, it is an overpowering political system that if implemented strips most human rights from the followers and bans all other belief systems, including atheism.

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Activist Alberdingk Thijm does groundbreaking work helping activists use smartphone cameras to defend human rights, but her most profound influence is incredibly down - to - earth: classic children's book character Pippi Longstocking

«We believe every individual has a basic human right to access actionable healthcare information when they need it the most — at a time when they have an opportunity to change outcomes and live better lives.

When a brand goes back to basics and appeals to the most human side of us — that's when they get it right.

Wells Fargo, in Human Rights Campaign's most recent corporate equality index, an annual ranking of the nation's largest businesses for LGBT workplace fairness, has a perfect score of 100.

Just about every human being who has ever walked the planet in fact does have the right to expect great outcomes but most don't ever do so, simply because they don't believe they truly can.

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.

As the US was rising to its power and glory during the 19 th Century, we had a horrible civil war, 15 depressions [Yes, with a D.], few human rights, little rule of law, periodic massacres in the streets, etc., etc. yet we still became the most successful country in the 20 th Century.

But most trials in China are closed to to the public, making it difficult for the media or human rights groups to investigate.

By clarifying the legal test and strengthening the obligation on employers to accommodate their workers, the Meiorin ruling has become the most influential workplace human rights decision over the past 20 years.

These stories of everyday - people - turned - human - rights - defenders, most of them Indigenous men and women of Mesoamerica, will undoubtedly provide the Canadian public with the so - far untold story about this highly - controversial Canadian economic development model.

Social responsibility may be Canada's most graceful entrance to promoting human rights in China.

This new program recognizes and supports young Canadians who work in the international arena on the most pressing challenges of this century including political unrest, climate change, human rights and global health pandemics.

Most of the alleged human rights abuses, they say, follow the companies» refusal to abide by acceptable environmental standards.

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.

Baroness Berridge, chairman of the APPG, said: «For the past sixty - plus years, the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea has committed egregious human rights violations - the details of which would turn the stomach of even the most hardened person.

Most provinces and territories also have pay equity provisions in their human rights statutes, but the Alberta Human Rights Act, RSA 2000, c A - 25.5 is deficient in not mandating equal pay for work of equal value, only for «the same or substantially similar work» (s 6 (1); see also Lahuman rights statutes, but the Alberta Human Rights Act, RSA 2000, c A - 25.5 is deficient in not mandating equal pay for work of equal value, only for «the same or substantially similar work» (s 6 (1); see also Lrights statutes, but the Alberta Human Rights Act, RSA 2000, c A - 25.5 is deficient in not mandating equal pay for work of equal value, only for «the same or substantially similar work» (s 6 (1); see also LaHuman Rights Act, RSA 2000, c A - 25.5 is deficient in not mandating equal pay for work of equal value, only for «the same or substantially similar work» (s 6 (1); see also LRights Act, RSA 2000, c A - 25.5 is deficient in not mandating equal pay for work of equal value, only for «the same or substantially similar work» (s 6 (1); see also Lahey).

It would be nice for her dogma - immersed professor to eventually arrive at what his student came to know so early in her life, that knowledge is gained from living life, and that knowledge can be more true right now than the human writings on the topic that only go back at most 5,000 years.

the fact that most of the 911 hijackers were from there and despite the fact that they have the worst human rights violations in the world means nothing...

Of the trillions of stars (most of which probably have some rocky planets orbiting it from the leftovers of its formation) there are probably plenty of planets orbiting their stars at the same distance as ours with varying conditions, ours just happened to be right for humans to evolve and be here today.

The arguments here are, for the most part, human beings who want to be right, right in their own belief of God, Church, Religion, or Non-Believers of any or all of the above.

They rightly applaud his «his unstinting advocacy for human rights and oppressed minorities in dangerous and unlovely corners of the world that most members of Congress were content to ignore.»

Every officially atheist nation has been a cesspol of mass murder and denial of the most basic of human rights.

People today are so preoccupied with making it illegal to even roll your eye's at the thought of gay marriage meanwhile over the last 10 years the powers that be have removed some of the most basic human rights that even Muslim countries have!

«Through the UK - Sudan Strategic Dialogue, and our policy of phased engagement, we continue to raise human rights issues with the government of Sudan and make regular representations on freedom of religion or belief, including in relation to reported church demolitions, most recently during the Archbishop of Canterbury's visit to Sudan in July.»

The theological issues are far from resolved; but, judging from what has happened in Bloomington, even conservative Christians (though traditionally among those most opposed to gay civil rights) are learning that theological concerns need not blind any of us to the needs and rights of homosexuals as human beings.

«[N] on - state actors, including rebel and terrorist organizations,... committed by far some of the most egregious human rights abuses and caused significant damage to the global status of respect for religious freedom,» according to the 2014 IRF report.

Asia Bibi, the «world's most emblematic defender of human rights,» goes before Islamabad's Supreme Court.

The mayor's statement said receiving the award is a «rare distinction granted to the world's most emblematic defenders of human rights.

Moreover, in our time the language of universal human rights is the most available discourse for cross-cultural deliberation about the dignity of the human person.

Gary Haugen has witnessed some of the most devastating human rights abuses of this generation from child slavery to the exhumation of genocide victims in Rwanda.

A most particular threat to the human rights project is the coercive use of foreign aid and other international programs in order to advance alleged rights related to procreation, population control, and the independence of children from their parents (in the name of «children's rights»).

It is right to acknowledge that this gap in the human experience of the Word Incarnate causes difficulty to some people, for it seems on the surface that this most vital area of personal relationship and responsibility is to some extent a room which Christ has not been through before us.

We affirm democracy as the type of government that holds the most promise for the just and good ordering of society and that best protects human rights and dignity.

Professor MacKinnon is quite right to draw attention to the fact that here is a very large and most important sphere of human life which lay beyond the range of experience dictated by Jesus» particular calling.

In Francis Coralic Mullin (1981 S. C. 746), Bhagwati J. observed: «The fundamental right to life... is the most precious human right and... forms the arc of all other rights».

Maybe even the most ardent right wing religious zealots can read this story and finally let it seep into their brains that there is no Jesus, there is no Lord watching over you and protecting you, and there is no devil... there is only human nature and some of it is good and some of it is bad.

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Murders most foul, on a massive scale, in the name of the United Nations makes a mockery of human rights and a trickery of the Universal Declaration.

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He added: «The past five years since Xi Jinping became president have seen the most severe and widespread crackdown on human rights since the Tiananmen massacre of 1989.

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.

We observe that evil has no boundaries — the very existence of torture, and the fact that human rights organisations believe that over 80 % of the world's governments practice some form of it, shows that humans are not just content to be a little bit evil, but are most willing to be CREATIVELY evil, concocting new ways to inflict pain and suffering onto others.