Sentences with phrase «rights impact assessments»

Speakers also addressed the important role of science and technology in conducting Human Rights Impact Assessments and other types of research and documentation that are key components of the business and human rights framework.

In particular we insisted that there be an independent human rights impact assessment of the deal, both before it entered into force and periodically thereafter, along with a legal requirement that any shortcomings surfaced by the assessment be resolved.

It explains which independent human rights institutions for children exist in Canada, as well as information about what a child rights impact assessment is.

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On a related note, since you mentioned «blog comments» in the article, I'm also seriously considering removing comments from my site... I rarely get any comments, and I think you're right with your assessment of social media's impact in this regard.

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.

Commons Speaker John Bercow has insisted that the House of Lords were acting within their rights when they voted for a motion to delay # 4.4 billion of tax credit cuts while an impact assessment is carried out.

The Program is committed to promoting high standards for the practice of science and engineering; advancing the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications; engaging scientists, engineers and their professional associations in human rights efforts; monitoring and enhancing assessment of emerging ethical, legal, and human rights issues related to science and technology; furthering the use of science and technology in support of human rights; and initiating activities to address the impact of developments at the intersection of science, technology, and law.

The hotline volunteers can aid human rights groups in a variety of ways, from reviewing environmental impact assessments to managing data and designing surveys.

«Nicaragua should prepare and publicly vet a detailed economic assessment that includes not only a cost - benefit analysis but also considers externalities associated with national economic development, environmental impacts, social equity, human rights and legal and national security issues,» they wrote.

Nor will any number of environmental impact assessments convince it that dumping oil rigs in the deeps — or sewage sludge or old submarines or nuclear waste — is right.

Despite clear criteria to the contrary, instruction / education concerning scholarship and its assessment [12.5], and abundant counterexamples [13], traditionalists will nonetheless favor work appearing in the right journals, previously funded by the right sources, and from the right institutions and supported by letters from the right people, in the worst cases irrespective of the work's actual quality and impact [14].

In another timely feature, Shep Melnick gives us an assessment of the October 2014 «Dear Colleague Letter» from the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, which demanded that each school district provide a detailed accounting of resources available to each school in order to avoid allegations of racially disparate impacts on children.

During her time as a superintendent, Lisa's district focused on measuring educator performance data for 10 core competencies — including assessment, instruction and student engagement — based on their ability to impact student learning... but using that data to determine the most effective professional development activities requires the right technology.

That doesn't mean that I think that mature people can't, under the right circumstances, engage in productive risk assessment so as to develop policies in the face of uncertainties about the impact of ACO2 on the climate.

«We need to greatly improve assessments of the impacts of climate change on all species right now,» he said.

Looking at the mainstream news coverage right now on the Keystone draft environmental impact assessment, it is disturbingly positive.

The commitment of many thousands of the world's leading scientists and other experts to the assessment process and to the communication of the nature of our understanding of the changing climate, its impacts, and possible adaptation and mitigation strategies is a considerable achievement in its own right.

«No one who is pushing these treaties can explain why anyone who would get the right actually needs it in the first place, and there is no assessment of how this will impact copyright owners, consumers or creative communities and innovative businesses.»

It is determined by a preliminary assessment of the strength of claim at issue and the seriousness of the potential impact of the proposed government conduct on the asserted or established Aboriginal or treaty right at issue.

Once the early planning phase has finished, the Agency must determine whether an impact assessment is required, and in doing so, must consider the possible adverse effects of the project, the adverse effects on aboriginal and treaty rights, comments received from the public, and studies conducted by relevant jurisdictions.

Recent case specific examples include: incorrect advice concerning permitted development rights (planning consultant); failure to appreciate the extent of residential curtilage (conveyancing solicitors); failure to understand environmental impact assessment (surveyor / planning consultant); conservation area consent issue (architect).

One aspect of remedying this problem, which is consistent with a human rights based response to climate change, is recognising and utilising traditional environmental knowledge, which has already been identified by natural scientists as an under - used resource for climate impact and adaptation assessment.