Sentences with phrase «against social conventions»
Still, he was clearly a man prepared to ride into battle against the social conventions of his era.
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As Jesus ministered, He ripped down all social conventions that were pitted against women.
The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»
Newland Archer (Daniel Day Lewis), a wealthy dandy, and Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), a divorcee considered to be damaged goods, are lovers who struggle against rigid social conventions.
While the Guerrilla Girls campaign forcefully against discrimination, Warhol's Manhattan studio, known as The Factory, provided a welcoming space for those who didn't conform to the social and sexual conventions of 1960s society.
Three gallery shows that exemplify the trend — and a fourth farther uptown — are of work by artists who share elements of the same profile: the bad - boy avant - gardist with machismo to spare, rebelling against aesthetic conventions, social norms or both.
Essays by Kathy Halbreich, Associate Director of The Museum of Modern Art; Mark Godfrey, Curator of International Art, Tate Modern; and a range of scholars and artists examine the full range of Polke's exceptionally inventive oeuvre and place his enormous skepticism of all social, political and artistic conventions against German history.
«Hardy's Wessex stonemason struggles to aspire beyond his station in life and against the power of religious and social convention.
This directly goes against the principles of the UNFCCC and is outlined in Article 4 (7): «The extent to which developing country Parties will effectively implement their commitments under the Convention will depend on the effective implementation by developed country Parties of their commitments under the Convention related to financial resources and transfer of technology and will take fully into account that economic and social development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding priorities of the developing country Parties.»
The applicant submitted that the refusal to pay him a social security benefit (widows» benefit) to which he would have been entitled had he been a woman in a similar position constituted discrimination against him on grounds of sex contrary to Art 14 of the Convention taken in conjunction with Art 1 of the First Protocol to the Convention.
It is explicitly mentioned in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights has discussed at length the right's implicit presence within the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights» (ICESCR) «right to an adequate standard of living.»
The right to housing is an element within the right to an adequate standard of living and is recognised as central to the realisation of all economic, social and cultural rights.32 The right to adequate housing is also recognized in other international human rights instruments including; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Turnbull also recently announced the government would ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, a key protection for people in prison, and appointed June Oscar, Chief Executive Officer of Marninwarntikura Women's Resource Centre in Fitzroy Crossing, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.