Sentences with phrase «as human rights law»

Angela said: «As human rights law remains under political pressure; the skill, commitment and professionalism of human rights lawyers is needed more than ever.

While at UT, Ms. Dale - Ramos represented clients during immigration proceedings and served as a human rights law scholar.

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As I argue in a forthcoming paper in the Georgetown Law Journal, there are cases in which we should think not in terms of the rights the corporation should enjoy, but in terms of the appropriate limits to be placed on the corporation, understood as a tool for achieving human objectiveAs I argue in a forthcoming paper in the Georgetown Law Journal, there are cases in which we should think not in terms of the rights the corporation should enjoy, but in terms of the appropriate limits to be placed on the corporation, understood as a tool for achieving human objectiveas a tool for achieving human objectives.

In a non-union environment, employers can dump employees any time, for virtually any reason as long as it doesn't violate human rights laws.

Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.

As the US was rising to its power and glory during the 19 th Century, we had a horrible civil war, 15 depressions [Yes, with a D.], few human rights, little rule of law, periodic massacres in the streets, etc., etc. yet we still became the most successful country in the 20 th Century.

The companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners to use religious objections to deny same - sex couples wedding.

He points out that New Zealand — a country that places a high value on human rights, rule of law and democracy, as Canada does — has benefited enormously under a free - trade agreement with China.

«The European sense of privacy as a fundamental human right has been codified in law for a long time,» Michelle De Mooy, the director for privacy and data at the Center for Democracy & Technology.

The law was rejected by privacy advocates such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which he wrote after the adoption of the law, «is the final encoded legal act allows you protection of private life worldwide, and violates human rights.»

In Canada, human rights remain an embedded principle of Canadian law and governance, embracing both civil / political dimensions and economic / social / cultural dimensions of human rights as indispensable to the operation of our political and legal systems.

(R. M. MacIver: The Modern State, pp. 103 - 104) It was the glory of Roman jurists in the early centuries A.D. that they first conceived the jus gentium, the natural law of all peoples, as incorporating the duties and rights which belonged to human beings everywhere.

The liberal elite who occupy the positions of influence in deciding cases under human rights or equality laws tend to use them as a tool to achieve the results that conform to the fashionable values they have absorbed or which prevail in the social environments in which they live, are educated and work.

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In short, anyone who appreciates the rapid change in historical circumstances and does not flee from this into a ghetto; anyone who knows that there is and always has been a mutable, human law of the Church, and that this kind of change has always been practised; anyone, moreover, who reflects that the Church not only has the right but the duty of shaping its canon law in accordance with changes in the times, will not be surprised at the change in many legal regulations which he is living through at the present time, but will recognize and accept this as a sign of the vitality of the Church and its pastoral care.

Still, such theorists also continue, as did Kant himself, the modern natural law tradition, at least in the following way: The duties prescribed by nonteleological liberalism are defined in terms of rights that are prior to any inclusive good; that is, these rights are separated from, and respect for them overrides, any inclusive telos humans might pursue.

Human Rights NGOs like the Centre for Governance and Development, Citizens Coalition for Constitutional Change, Human Rights Commission and Mazingira Institute, Law Society and the NGO Council helped to popularize the gospel of accountability as a culture of democracy.

But such would have to be Arkes» outlook: if indeed there are fundamental principles of natural law and natural right, discernible to the human mind generally (as Arkes thinks), then policies or practices that effectively deny these can only be supported for the short term, or in the long term only by continuing fraud and force.

All western nations need laws that protect vulnerable depressed and mentally incompetent people from falling victim to the euthanasia lobby who are promoting suicide (right to die) as a human right.

Despite obvious and continuing difficulties in enforcing human rights law, «there has been no more radical development in the whole history of international law than this bursting, as it were, of its traditional boundaries,» John Humphrey remarks in «The Revolution in the International Law of Human Rights» (Human Rights, Spring 1975, p.human rights law, «there has been no more radical development in the whole history of international law than this bursting, as it were, of its traditional boundaries,» John Humphrey remarks in «The Revolution in the International Law of Human Rights» (Human Rights, Spring 1975, prights law, «there has been no more radical development in the whole history of international law than this bursting, as it were, of its traditional boundaries,» John Humphrey remarks in «The Revolution in the International Law of Human Rights» (Human Rights, Spring 1975, p. 2law, «there has been no more radical development in the whole history of international law than this bursting, as it were, of its traditional boundaries,» John Humphrey remarks in «The Revolution in the International Law of Human Rights» (Human Rights, Spring 1975, p. 2law than this bursting, as it were, of its traditional boundaries,» John Humphrey remarks in «The Revolution in the International Law of Human Rights» (Human Rights, Spring 1975, p. 2Law of Human Rights» (Human Rights, Spring 1975, p.Human Rights» (Human Rights, Spring 1975, pRights» (Human Rights, Spring 1975, p.Human Rights, Spring 1975, pRights, Spring 1975, p. 209)

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

The chief of human rights at the U.N. said, «If established as deliberate in a court of law, an airstrike on a hospital may amount to a war crime.»

Because all human laws, customs, and opinions change from time to time and vary from place to place, we tend to think of right and wrong as relative to the particular culture in which we live.

That is to say, salvation depends finally upon right human action in response to God's gracious Torah, and Jesus» function is simply to re-present that Law as it exists primordially in the mind of God — not to create a new possibility for human existence.

b) the natural rights theories that based rights on reason and natural law, linked to the concept of the supreme dignity of the human person as a creature of God, who alone had sovereign right over all,

Under Islamic sharia law, women are treated as inferior and non-Muslims have no human rights.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Okay, so, overturning an old law that forbids women from riding bicycles may not exactly be a giant leap forward for human rights, but from North Korea, it might as...

Okay, so, overturning an old law that forbids women from riding bicycles may not exactly be a giant leap forward for human rights, but from North Korea, it might as well be the Emancipation Proclamation.

In an interview with the Church of Ireland Gazette, he also blamed negative attitudes towards the EU on recent European human rights judgments which he supported, saying: «The fact is, of course, we have absorbed the European Convention on Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he human rights judgments which he supported, saying: «The fact is, of course, we have absorbed the European Convention on Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, herights judgments which he supported, saying: «The fact is, of course, we have absorbed the European Convention on Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he Human Rights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, heRights into British law anyway, so it is not as if there is some sinister global tyranny forcing us, he said.

«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).

She is certainly right that our human notions of justice do not seem to be backed by the laws of nature as we know them and the way things happen on this planet.

(25) And these most definitely include the «right» to an abortion: «women have the right to decide freely and responsibly the number, timing and spacing of their children, as established by international human rights law.»

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Religious proponents of international law could draw on the prophets for biblical support: Amos, Hosea, Micah and others discerned Yahweh's law as both impartial and international, striking against the arrogant pretensions of all people and nations who violate human rights in the belief that God is on their side.

As this debate proceeds, some specialists in human rights law have suggested that it might be useful to rethink the whole process of innovation that the United Nations system constantly presents to us.

The collective right to peace demands such a basic approach — in fact and law — that we can no longer afford to regard it merely as a sentimental concept or to confine it to an intellectual category of human rights.

In other words, too much of natural law theory, especially that derived from those thinkers from Grotius on who transposed natural law into natural rights (which after the French Revolution usually became known as «human rights»), relies on a concept of nature that is not natural.

humans have equal rights under the law and the sooner you set aside the indoctrination of hate and seclusion you were taught as a child the better life will be for all.

As to the second part... again, Bob... maybe,... just maybe atheists, agnostics, some christians, and many from other religions, or not believe that what you evangelical theists believe about «gays» and what you are doing to minimize, criminalize, bully, torture,... create laws that show them as not being worthy enough in our society of having equal rights as human beings... maybe we think you guys are absolutely * wronAs to the second part... again, Bob... maybe,... just maybe atheists, agnostics, some christians, and many from other religions, or not believe that what you evangelical theists believe about «gays» and what you are doing to minimize, criminalize, bully, torture,... create laws that show them as not being worthy enough in our society of having equal rights as human beings... maybe we think you guys are absolutely * wronas not being worthy enough in our society of having equal rights as human beings... maybe we think you guys are absolutely * wronas human beings... maybe we think you guys are absolutely * wrong.

It is a functioning brain that distinguishes us as a human being — a person — to be protected under the law and who has rights.

Bibi's death sentence sparked outrage among human rights groups, who condemned Pakistan's blasphemy law as a source of violence and persecution against religious minorities.

Having said all that, the Muslims do have the right to create a center at a place of their own choosing, regardless of the noises made by Newt and others promoters of stupidity in America, long as they are not promoting laws that are not only against the constitution but against the dignity of what we know as humans, we can not legalize any killing fields.

By targeting the exact problem, we reinforce the international law in our favor and highlight the lack of legal foundation for abortion as a human right.

... Since man enjoys the capacity for a free personal choice in truth... the right to religious freedom should be viewed as innate to the fundamental dignity of every human person... all people are «impelled by nature and also bound by our moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth» (Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis Humanae, 2)... let me express my sincere hope that your expertise in the fields of law, political science, sociology and economics will converge in these days to bring about fresh insights on this important question andthus bear much fruit now and into the future.

I wish that Lepard had written more about this problem, exploring the issues confronted by non-Muslims in societies where Islamic shari'a law has been adopted, for example, and considering the current debate about this among Islamic human rights scholars such as Abdullah An - Na» im.

Like most UN human rights treaties, its implementation by state parties is overseen by a compliance committee, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which issues «General Comments» meant to guide our understanding of the provisions contained in the treaty, and which conducts periodic reviews of state parties, instructing them how to change their laws in order to comply better with the treaty, as understood by the Committee.

The same holds true for the world of today: as long as a system of law abides by the basic human rights that bear no exception, there is no reason for interference by the Church.

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.»

The 1985 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Instruction on Respect for Human Life states, «By virtue of its substantial union with a spiritual soul, the human body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.&rHuman Life states, «By virtue of its substantial union with a spiritual soul, the human body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.&rhuman body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.&rhuman person.»