Sentences with phrase «nations rights argument»

And it crosses over all these lines: local environmental impact, there's the climate argument, there's the First Nations rights argument, there's the stewardship argument, so it can really draw from a whole wide sector of civil society in the way that the faceless catastrophe of climate change can't.

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Interestingly, virtually none of these pro-pipeline rule of law arguments mention the rights of First Nations.

Among the many positions taken by these critics, the argument most relevant to our present theme is that the rise of international institutions under the umbrella of the United Nations system represents the leading edge of a new global system of government that has superseded the state in important respects, including the right to judge when resort to armed force is legitimate.

The big bang does not state that something comes from nothing, and the rest of your argument is ludicrous.This is why Bill Nye is right - a lack of scientific understanding results in a nation full of ignorance and lack of critical thinking; not good for a nation that is basically making money by being on the cutting edge of technology.

The argument must be logical and rooted in the fundamental belief that America is a free nation that respects religious rights for all.

I would just like to make the argument that right now, fly - ash production is limited to states that have coal - mining, but serves the entire nation.

«There is a very strong argument that the bill is a fundamental violation of states» rights and repugnant to the very concept of federalism that formed this nation,» Cuomo said.

Pan: Per capita, they are still obviously way behind the United States and other industrial nations and there is this argument that the United States and the West, you know, they went through their industrial revolutions and we need to go through ours, but still that ignores the argument that the others, the lessons learnt, you know, China should be able to take a different path and there is a budding environmental movement right now in China, trying to put pressure on the government to do something about this, but again, you know, these officials are addicted to economic growth.

The iCivics games consist of several modules that include citizenship and participation (Activate), The Constitution and Bill of Rights (Do I Have a Right, Immigration Nation, Argument Wars), budgeting (People's Pie), separation of power (Branches of Power), political campaigning (Win the White House), local government (Counties Work), the Executive branch (Executive Command), the Legislative branch (Lawcraft, Represent Me), and the Judicial Branch (We the Jury, Supreme Decision).

Well, I don't think we should start messing around fixing it in the sense of sending them miles up into the space; [in] fact I make some arguments why that's not going to happen, because we can't even agree on CO2 now, the world's nations are not going to agree upon how much to try to turn the thermostat back, particularly when the crops might be growing better with higher CO2, right now when the temperature effects haven't kicked in fully.

Boutrous and Lipshutz cite several historic U.S. Supreme Court cases in their argument that public education meets the fundamental - right test, including Washington v. Glucksberg, in which the Court found that public education is «deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition» and «implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.»

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

In addition, economic arguments for not acting on climate change ignore obligations that nations have if they are creating human rights violations and duties entailed by distributive justice.

Although a strong case can be made that historical ghg emissions before 1990 should be considered in determining a nation's fair share of safe global emissions, selecting a common baseline year such as 1990 would facilitate easier citizen comparison of national commitments while retaining the rights of nations to make arguments that historical ghg emissions should be considered in any equity framework.

For the first time in our nation's history, a federal court heard arguments as to whether living, breathing, feeling beings have rights and can be enslaved simply because they happen to not have been born human.

My arguments are in support of Articles 6 & 7 of the United Nations» universal declaration of human rights.

The court may be asked to consider arguments for a «modernization» of the Hague Convention mechanism, in particular, whether it should be reinterpreted through the lens of the rights of the child arising under human rights instruments (e.g., the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Crights of the child arising under human rights instruments (e.g., the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Crights instruments (e.g., the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the CRights and Freedoms or the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the CRights of the Child).