Sentences with phrase «against forced marriage»

It's good that we now have laws against forced marriage and coercive control.

Meanwhle, Buhari also on Friday, warned against forced marriages and child abduction in the country, noting that every child has the right of education and the right to live.

Not exact matches

But Podesta and his candidate want to force a religious order of Catholic women to cooperate in the provision of contraceptives and abortifacients; they want to compel small businesses to cater to same - sex marriage ceremonies; and they want physicians to refer troubled patients for «transgender» treatment — all against the Catholic understanding of the right to act on one's conscience (in these cases, one's rightly formed conscience).

For all those whiners saying gay marriage is against their religion, why should YOUR religion be forced on me?

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

Of course Christians can speak out against gay marriage and speak up for government forced - birth if they want.

Incidents of people being forced to work against their will under the threat of punishment, human trafficking, child slavery, and forced or early marriage are all considered forms of modern slavery, according to the Anti-Slavery International.

In recent years, evangelicals have pushed for greater «conscience protections» for Christians, hoping to keep believers from being forced to go against their beliefs on marriage and sexuality at their workplaces.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

It's not as if evil forces are conspiring against you and your marriage; no, you either wake up every day and say, «I choose to be in this marriage» and act accordingly or you don't.

One prominent legal commentator has argued that the case against the church, to force it to perform same - sex religious marriage, is «reasonable»; another has claimed that the church's argument is hysterical.

The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force has admitted — after months of secrecy — that Penn National Gaming paid for a summer mailing that sought to mobilize supporters of Maryland's marriage equality bill against a gambling expansion measure in the state.

Moreover, he knew that we might win and did not want the embarrassment of being forced by Europe to legislate equal marriage, which would have been used against him by Euro - sceptics in his own party — and by UKIP.

Cuomo has at least one card up his sleeve to use against those who would punt on the issue of marriage equality: He can force legislators back for an emergency conference to deal with the issue.

«Just as we look forward to hearing her explanation of supporting Donald Trump, why she supports turning NYPD into a deportation force, and why she voted against marriage equality and raising the minimum wage.»

She continued: «Forced marriage is terrible for those women, children and men who find themselves in an often violent and abusive situation against their will.

But Holly Dustin, manager of End Violence Against Women, believes the home secretary is continuing to fail the three million women across the UK who experience rape, domestic violence, forced marriage, trafficking, or other violent behaviour each year.

Speaking at the 2016 National Children's Day Celebration, Buhari said: «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family and communities at all levels on the critical role of protecting children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early marriage.

Speaking in Abuja to mark 2016 National Children's Day Celebration, President Buhari said, «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family, communities at all levels, on the critical role of protecting the children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early marriage.

According to him, he would ensure that no Nigerian was put through the brutality of abduction, violence in whatever form or forced marriage, even as he challenged all stakeholders to rise up and take a decisive action to stem what he termed, the unacceptable cases of violence and intimidation against Nigeria children.

Yet, despite increased global attention to violence perpetrated against women and girls, and recent advances in knowledge about how to tackle these abuses (Paper 1, Paper 3), levels of violence against women — including intimate partner violence, rape, female genital mutilation, trafficking, and forced marriages — remain unacceptably high, with serious consequences for victims» physical and mental health.

Henry's marriage to Jane Seymour is happy, fruitful, and tragically short; the king brutally suppresses a rebellion against his religious reforms; England, Spain and the Pope ally against England, forcing Henry to marry a Protestant.

While Ellen is forced to intervene in the collapse of her parents» troubled marriage, the case against Channing McClaren threatens to destroy both McClarenTruth and Princefield Investments.

Fortunata (Lucky, Sergio Castellito, 2017) Yet another story in which the leading lady comes forth as a force to be reckoned with, Jasmine Trinca in Fortunata is resilient yet downtrodden and while having to face marital abuse and a marriage falling apart she falls in love and lust with another man and is also able to strengthen the much tested bond between her and her daughter in a film set against the backdrop of a dusty and hot Roman suburb.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

This overwhelmingly «christian» congress represents an overwhelming «christian» nation has that: performs a million abortions a year, has out 40 % of births out of wedlock (approaching 70 percent in minority communities), has a Supreme Court that has ruled that virtual child pornography is protected by the first amendment, has a culture that teaches ever younger girls (through movies, music, tv, books and magazines) that their primary function is as living sex toys for men, forces religions to provide insurance to include abortifacients against their faith, and is rapidly redefining marriage by judicial edict.

For international family lawyers the judgment is significant in that the court ruled that forced marriage constitutes a crime against humanity.

The forced marriage protection order was made against the girl's father, mother and elder brother.

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has also noted that Articles 2,5,11,12 and 16 of CEDAW require States to act to protect women against violence of any kind occurring within the family, workplace or any other area of social life and that traditional attitudes which subordinate women, including forced marriages, will breach Articles 2 (f), 5 and 10 (c) ofAgainst Women has also noted that Articles 2,5,11,12 and 16 of CEDAW require States to act to protect women against violence of any kind occurring within the family, workplace or any other area of social life and that traditional attitudes which subordinate women, including forced marriages, will breach Articles 2 (f), 5 and 10 (c) ofagainst violence of any kind occurring within the family, workplace or any other area of social life and that traditional attitudes which subordinate women, including forced marriages, will breach Articles 2 (f), 5 and 10 (c) of CEDAW.

Forced and early marriage is sometimes linked with moving people to another country or across borders against their will, and this is illegal.

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has also noted that Articles 2,5,11,12 and 16 of CEDAW require States to act to protect women against violence of any kind occurring within the family, workplace or any other area of social life (84) and that traditional attitudes which subordinate women, including forced marriages, will breach Articles 2 (f), 5 and 10 (c) ofAgainst Women has also noted that Articles 2,5,11,12 and 16 of CEDAW require States to act to protect women against violence of any kind occurring within the family, workplace or any other area of social life (84) and that traditional attitudes which subordinate women, including forced marriages, will breach Articles 2 (f), 5 and 10 (c) ofagainst violence of any kind occurring within the family, workplace or any other area of social life (84) and that traditional attitudes which subordinate women, including forced marriages, will breach Articles 2 (f), 5 and 10 (c) of CEDAW.