Sentences with phrase «as a human right»

But the topics may also be urgent ethical issues such as human rights, medical care, abortion, environmental protection, or world peace.

The nature of reasonable accommodation in transportation must be shaped by safety, technological and economic as well as human rights considerations.

The chapter used the language of human rights to analyse the Indigenous health crisis as a human rights issue.

The third pursued a career as a human rights activist and academic.

Thus development is cast not only as a human right in itself, it is also defined by reference to its capacity as a process to realise all other human rights.

This extends to critical thinking and is inclusive of education as a human right.

Thus climate change should be seen as a human rights problem as much as a scientific and economic one.

More generally, it is of some concern that discrimination on the grounds of disability, in such an important area as human rights law, is not prohibited by Art 14.

She outlines potential actions these organizations, and others, such as human rights organizations, could take in order to promote access to science and combat aggressively restrictive patents.

We will make sure that trans * rights are recognized as human rights and fully protected.

Indigenous perspective is given some space (though not as much as human rights framework) under the notion of sustainable development and social responsibility principles.

I am not really functioning well as a human right now, and neither is my husband.

As a human rights expert, what do you think is the most pressing issue to portray across to legal professionals?

Thus, the current idea of religious freedom as a human right remains a contested topic.

The campaign hopes to raise awareness about gender - based violence as a human rights issue at the local, national, regional and international level.

Although this issue may not be as life - threatening as nuclear war, or as universal as human rights, it is very distressing.

This film shines a light on childbirth as a human rights issue and how our birthing systems worldwide so often fail and disrespect women.

She soon came to see mathematics as a human right, one that many people are denied.

The case framed global warming as a human rights violation that the Dutch government must do more to prevent.

Further, it is rare that an employer would offer up monetary compensation such as human rights general damages, even if a breach has occurred according to its investigation.

The reason is because secular people form their morality based on thought, and reason, and consensus, and based upon principles such as human rights.

He has extensive experience covering complex matters related to the criminal and civil justice systems as well as human rights and global justice issues.

(Tangent: I spent most of college and law school working on progressive, feminist, anti-racist issues and worked as a human rights lawyer before moving into the world of food.)

Since 1981 — Kennedy has worked as a human rights activist — leading delegations into places such as El Salvador — Gaza — Haiti — Kenya — Northern Ireland — and South Korea.

The coalition's full programme for government has been published, with concessions on matters such as the Human Rights Act and fox hunting finally becoming clear.

Brazil told the meeting that the CCW process on autonomous weapons shouldn't preclude other UN bodies such as the Human Rights Council from taking action in accordance with their mandates.

The guidelines reflect best practices shared by organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign and the Transgender Law Center.

To the extent that he acts on behalf of strata property managers and numerous strata corporations, he provides representation not just as litigation counsel appearing at the superior Courts of British Columbia, at arbitration, mediation and administrative tribunals such as the Human Rights Tribunal, Employment Standards and City Variance hearings, but also as legal advisor in the strata and real estate regulatory fields as well as all other areas of the law.

Gottfried has also worked as a human rights advocate, traveling to the Soviet Union during the Cold War to meet with dissidents.

This requirement has been emphasised by the human rights treaty committees, such as the Human Rights Committee in relation to the application of Articles 1 and 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and also by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in relation to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).

«New York must treat health care as a human right.

The Court confirmed that actions for discrimination should be before human rights tribunals — although, I view this as inconsistent with the recent changes to the human rights scheme, in Bill 107, which expressly permit employee's to seek damages for discrimination before court's as well as human rights tribunals.

(This framework could have been tightened by including more specific language on several issues proposed by some countries but rejected by others on such matters as human rights, losses and damages, legal effect of the agreement, and financing of adaptation among others, yet the framework includes provisions that these issues can be considered in the years ahead.)

This was just as a human rights advocacy organisation, Access to Justice, also faulted the military over the declaration.

At our state conference last month, we overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting guaranteed healthcare as a human right, free public education from pre-K through college or trade school, a living wage and fair compensation for all, investments in environmental protection and renewable energy, restoration of voting rights to former felons, public financing of elections to eradicate the corrupting influence of big money in politics, and other policies that serve the people.

And indeed, KW's exhibition of Mangan's work is itself part of the current «Australia Now» campaign, which uses international events by Australian artists to promote trade ties even as human rights abuses perpetrated by the Australian government's detention of refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, and Nauru continue.

WHY: Margaret Tali will discuss the meanings of Romani exclusion and what it has to tell us about artistic scenes, their nature and alignments by focusing on the work of an outstanding Finnish - Romani artist, writer and activist, Kiba Lumberg, who advocates her artistic practice as a human right.

Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) v Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) started as a human rights complaint against the DVBIA for their treatment of people who are homeless in the downtown core of Vancouver.

Relevant legislation includes the Substitute Decisions Act, the Health Care Consent Act, the Mental Health Act ¸ as well as the Human Rights Code — all dealing with specific aspects of decision making and consent.