Sentences with phrase «achieve equality with»

Fong says that in order to achieve equality with dominant, capitalistic countries like the United States, officials also pushed the idea that the country needed to become a center of finance and technology — not just provide cheap labor, as it had been doing.

In recent decades, women in Australia have made significant strides towards achieving equality with men.

Not exact matches

In that letter he wrote about «an urgent need to achieve real equality in every area: equal pay for equal work, protection for working mothers, fairness in career advancements, equality of spouses with regard to family rights.»

That equality is achieved in the knockout phase in 2004 and a year with a late goal by Roberto Carlos.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

Cuomo said even with a Republican Senate, he's achieved passage of marriage equality, an increase in the minimum wage, paid family leave and raising the age of incarceration in state prisons from age 16 to 18.

With your help and support, we will achieve these goals and more to ensure equality that empowers all the self - sufficiency.

And how do you think greater income equality could best be achieved with public support?

Cuomo says even with a Republican Senate, he's achieved passage of marriage equality, an increase in the minimum wage, to Paid Family Leave, and raising the age of incarceration in state prisons from age 16 to 18.

Cuomo, in exchange for an endorsement from the left leaning Working Families Party, promised to help reunite the two Democratic factions in order to achieve passage of several progressive issues, including public campaign financing, a women's equality act with an abortion rights provision, and a measure to give college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, known as the Dream Act.

A major new piece of research on disability in Britain was launched in March 2009 as part of the Government's long - term aim to achieve equality in all areas for people with disabilities.

Anyone with an interest in supporting the push for marriage equality in New York is encouraged to join this group to stay updated on activities toward achieving this goal.

I'm heartbroken but deep inside all I've got to fight with is a belief that we can achieve justice & equality for all.

The website claims to support Australian marriage equality and thrives to achieve this by creating a platform where gay singles can connect with each other and strive to get into a long term commitment.

By eating lots of chocolate and sleeping around with men, they could achieve equality.

In an interview with Indiewire, the filmmaker was direct about the political implications: «You can get on your soapbox, you can push your political agenda or your religious agenda, against gay marriage, against racial equality, but you can't argue about these people in their home... Equality as a concept isn't something I think we ever achieve, it's something we make progress toward, and hope that we don't slip back and lose any of it.

Therefore, to tackle maternal mortality, we can not simply consider the question as merely a healthcare issue — we need to combine this with analysis and researching solutions to achieve gender equality.

The Center for Public Education distinguishes between the two concepts by defining equality as treating all students the same, with equal access to resources, as compared to equity, which «is achieved when all students receive the resources they need so they graduate prepared for success after high school.»

Embedding strategies to find future leaders in under - represented groups — including women, people with a disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples — within systemic identification processes will achieve greater equality and improve diversity.

The report calls for Connecticut to align state aid with local need and for lawmakers to create an equitable funding system that will help achieve educational equality.

Stephen Robertson, in his article «Age of Consent Laws», states: «Narrowly concerned with sexual violence, and with girls, originally, since the 19th century the age of consent has occupied a central place in debates over the nature of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and been drawn into campaigns against prostitution and child marriage, struggles to achieve gender and sexual equality, and the response to teenage pregnancy.»

The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) has honored Baker & Taylor's Axis 360 digital media platform with the Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award, which recognizes individuals and organizations that have «made outstanding contributions toward achieving the full integration of the blind into society on a basis of equality.»

«With all of our efforts to achieve equality, hearing about items only for females (hair dryers, nylons, etc.) hits me as borderline insulting unless it is followed up by items for men and services for all.»

Everyone agrees art is effective but there are still so many obstacles to overcome, hurdles to jump, red tape and excuses to achieving equality for persons with disabilities.

Nature is not based on equality but simple and sincere goal toward what need to be achieved reaching a balance with nature functioning without spoiling simple principles in the underlying of our fundamentals.

Like Jewish lawyers, who had to strike out on their own to achieve equality in the profession, I believe that women and minority lawyers will have to do the same, setting up their own firms and growing them into powerhouses that compete with BigLaw.

Like you, I believe that there are strategies the LSUC could pursue which would achieve their substantive goals, strategies which accurately reflect existing (and unambiguous) legal and ethical obligations and which are consistent with constitutional requirements and principles (as I've noted above, if the current requirement around a Statement of Principle merely required acknowledgement of our actual existing obligations under the Rules, rather than a general duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusion which is found nowhere in the Rules, I suspect much opposition would melt away and the LSUC would be on far stronger Charter grounds).

Four issues had been identified by the parties: (i) whether the Court of Appeal had correctly held that the 2009 and 2010 care plan reviews were to be read as including a reassessment of the claimant's community care needs; (ii) whether the authority's decision to provide pads interfered with the claimant's Art 8 rights and, if so, whether such an interference was justified and proportionate; (iii) whether the authority had been operating any relevant policy or practice for the purposes of s 21E (1) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA 1995) and, if so, whether that policy was justified as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, namely the equitable allocation of limited care resources; and (iv) whether the authority had failed to have due regard to the needs specified in s 49A of DDA 1995 (the general disability equality duty) when carrying out their functions in the instant case.

Human Rights Campaign (HRC)-- Womble supports the LGBTQ community through its involvement with HRC, the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans.

The Court of Appeal also referred back to Lambert v Lambert [2002] EWCA Civ 1685, [2003] 4 All ER 342 in which, although the court made an unequal division based on special contribution, Bodey J stated that in order to justify a departure from equality «the characteristics or circumstances clearly have to be of a wholly exceptional nature, such that it would be obviously be inconsistent with the objective of achieving fairness for them to be ignored».

We agree that equality, diversity and inclusion are worthy aspirations, but we disagree wholeheartedly with the law society's approach to achieving them.

In furtherance of this commitment, the government signed a Statement of Intent to work in partnership with Indigenous people and their representative organisations to achieve equality in health status and life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians by the year 2030.

The Government furthered its commitment in March 2008 when, along with the federal Opposition, it signed a Statement of Intent to work in partnership with Indigenous people and their representative organisations to achieve equality in health status and life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians by the year 2030.

The Committee notes with satisfaction that the status of women in Australian society has improved considerably during the reporting period, particularly in public service, in the general workforce, and in academic enrollment, although further equality has yet to be achieved in many sectors.

Test of equality of health care cost means for patients with a medical condition according to their FP and patients with Health anxiety were done by computing the bootstrap test statistic achieved significance level (ASL)[38].

Having accepted that substantive equality is an appropriate standard at international law, the PJC was left to grapple with the question of what differences should be treated differently in order to achieve real or substantive equality.

Where this is the case, it may be unrealistic to expect full statistical equality to be achieved with the wider community, even in the long term.

What this means is that the government, in line with international human rights definitions, accepts that racial equality is not always achieved merely by treating individuals or groups of particular ethnic origin the same as those who do not originate from that background.

This position is inconsistent with Article 2 (2) of ICERD which requires that where human rights are not enjoyed equally, then the provision of special measures are required to ensure equality is achieved between racial groups.

Working within a principled framework — As Tom has indicated, members of the campaign committee had to indicate basic agreement with the human rights approach as set out in achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality within a generation.

In international jurisprudence, particular regimes for the preservation of the characteristics and traditions of minorities are accepted as consistent with, and sometimes required to achieve factual or substantive equality.

In my view this latter approach is consistent with a state's international law obligation not only to proscribe laws that limit the enjoyment of rights but also to promote laws that seek to achieve equality.

Mr Gooda said the Prime Minister's recognition of the importance of working with the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples and the Close the Gap Steering Committee was a vital step to achieving Indigenous health equality within a generation.

The longer - term prospect (i.e. by around 2030) is that spending on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health will begin to reach parity with the non-Indigenous population as health equality is achieved.

[7] The Close the Gap Statement of Intent committed the Government to work with Indigenous people to achieve equality in health status and life expectancy, comparable with non-Indigenous Australians by 2030.

At the time of writing, discussions are continuing with the Minister for Indigenous Health and the Minister for Health and Ageing to progress the commitments to a national plan for achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality within a generation and a supporting partnership.

In accordance with the functions set out in section 46C (1)(a) of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Cth), this report includes 5 recommendations - 3 in relation to Achieving health equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people s and 2 in relation to the new arrangement in Indigenous affairs.

Benchmarks and targets for achieving equality of health status and life expectation should be negotiated, with the full participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and committed to by all Australian governments.

This review assesses the most significant national effort to date to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: the 2008 Council of Australian Governments» (COAG) Closing the Gap Strategy with its target to achieve life expectancy (health) equality by 2030.

The Close the Gap Coalition, of which Reconciliation Australia is a Steering Committee member, is a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous health and community organisations — together with over 200,000 Australians — calling on governments to take real, measurable action to achieve Indigenous health equality by 2030.