Sentences with phrase «achieving such equality»

The national commitment by governments should acknowledge that achieving such equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples will contribute significantly to the reconciliation process.

Chapter 2 of the report examines existing commitments and processes for addressing the health inequality experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and sets out a human rights framework for achieving such equality within a generation.

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Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

Although distributive justice would also allow for other morally relevant considerations to be considered in allocating ghg emissions that diverge from strict equality, including such considerations as historical ghg emissions levels, these other considerations can be built into a C&C framework either by negotiating the convergence dates in a C&C regime or in side - agreements on such issues as financing technologies for low - emitting nations at levels that would allow them to achieve per capita emissions limitations.

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.

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».

Our work focuses on issues such as achieving equality and access for Deaf people.

Where the basis of the implementation of a special measure is to redress the inequalities created by past discriminatory practices and enable Indigenous people to enjoy their human rights equally, the removal of such a measure can only be justified where such equality has in fact been achieved.

Far from such treatment being outlawed by international law, there are occasions when such differential treatment is required by conventions such as ICERD, in order to achieve equality.

The quintessential concern of the human rights enterprise is to raise to a status of dignity and equality each powerless person — persons who for reasons such as law, poverty, race, religion or gender are unable to achieve dignity, fairness, basic equality and justice...

In terms of medium term targets to support a commitment to achieve equality within 25 years, there are two clear areas of need which must be addressed to render such a commitment realistic.

[106] Such curtailment is contrary to human rights norms which require adequate recognition and protection of native title in order to safeguard the distinct identities of indigenous peoples and hence achieve substantive racial equality.

The Statement of Intent also sets out some core targets for such a national plan: as noted, that Indigenous health equality is achieved by 2030; and that «primary health care services and health infrastructure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples... are capable of bridging the gap in health standards by 2018».

[111] As such, what it means to achieve equality has also significantly changed.

10 years to achieve equality of opportunity in relation to access to primary health care and in relation to infrastructure that supports health (such as housing, food supplies, water, and etc.).