Sentences with phrase «as the human rights act»

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.

At the time, it was part of a civil rights agenda being set by the then Labour opposition, which included such things as the Human Right Act, and a (failed) «Ethical Foreign Policy» and was in stark contrast to the authoritarian approach of the then Conservative Government; Michael Howard's support for ID cards and Ken Clarke using PII Cetificates in the Matrix Churchill case spring to mind.

He insisted any government would have been forced to strengthen counter-terror laws in the wake of 9/11, but unlike the Conservatives, Labour could offset this with positive legislation such as the Human Rights Act.

Given the nature of adoption, human rights legislation such as the Human Rights Act 1998 (which incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights 1950) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 are important to any adoption proceedings.

As the Human Rights Act is British law, it was inaccurate to refer to having a «British equivalent» to it.

Leadsom also confirmed that the EU withdrawal bill would not return to the Commons next week, and pointed to long breaks of up to 10 weeks at the same stage of other recent constitutional bills, such as the Human Rights Act and the Fixed Term Parliament Act.

For as long as the Human Rights Act is a part of UK law, freedom of expression will subsist.

But, despite desirable recent constitutional advances such as the Human Rights Act 1998, there remains something uneasy at the heart of the government's relationship with the principles of the rule of law.

Not exact matches

He said he would accept the inclusion of «sexual orientation» in the Canadian Human Rights Act if it were «clearly defined, but not if it were used as a precedent for further benefits like marital status,» the magazine stated.

MaRS Discovery District («MaRS») supports the full inclusion of persons with disabilities as set out in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Ontario Human Rights Code, the 2001 Ontarians with Disabilities Act (ODA) and the 2005 Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

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.»

We humans must act maturely enough to see ourselves as one of the products of the universe with an equal right to resources, not as a privileged, one - of - a-kind, and preferred creature.

As a world leader for freedom and the protection of basic human rights, the United States should take every opportunity to advocate for people — including Americans here at home — to think, believe, and act according to their religious belief whether they belong to a minority or majority religion in their nation.»

The International Religious Freedom Act is part of that history of determined resolve, as is the American commitment to advance the cause of human rights across the board.

According to Bercier, «the highest act of man is not his exercise of reason in discerning the forms of nature» but rather his «responsibility for his own being and identity as it is authoritatively addressed to him by the Logos»; in other words, man's special dispensation of reason is for the sake of directing human nature towards «its most perfect end in man's own right self - governance» versus a liberation from the yoke of that nature.

As Pope John XXIII wrote in his encyclical Pacem in Terris (1963), «Any government which refused to recognize human rights, or acted in violation of them, would not only fail in its duty; its decrees would be wholly lacking in binding force.»

And even more fundamentally, if we are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental qualities such as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the fundamental equality of human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act whose purpose is to cause fetal death) be defended at all?

«When Elane Photography refused to photograph a same - sex commitment ceremony, it violated the [New Mexico Human Rights Act, or NMHRA] in the same way as if it had refused to photograph a wedding between people of different races,» the court said in a unanimous verdict.

We are dignified because God has entitled us to be dignified and to act accordingly, sometimes as our human right and sometimes as our human duty.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

5, § 4634 (2001) amends the Maine Human Rights Act to declare that a mother has the right to breastfeed her baby in any location, whether public or private, as long as she is otherwise authorized to be in that location.

§ 2 - 1402.81 et seq. amend the Human Rights Act of 1977 to include breastfeeding as part of the definition of discrimination on the basis of sex, to ensure a woman's right to breastfeed her child in any location, public or private, where she has the right to be with her child.

The human rights lawyer had asked the court to restrain the FederalGovernment of Nigeria, the EFCC and all other authorities from recognizing Magu as the chairman of EFCC, either in acting or substantive capacity.

«Guantanamo Bay, which was an international abuse of human rights, acted as recruiting sergeant for dissidents and alienated Muslims and alienated many other people across the world,» said Mr Hain, speaking on BBC1's Sunday AM programme.

He used his resignation in 2007 to criticise the Human Rights Act as hindering Britain's fight against terrorism.

He claimed this was an infringement of his freedom of religion under the Human Rights Act, as it meant he couldn't watch the God Channel.

This raises serious questions for those in the democracy promotion community about why legislatures trained in democracy and human rights issues have failed to act as bulwarks to authoritarian abuse — and what can be done about it.

When supporters of the central coordination of the provision of healthcare by the state say that healthcare is a human right they mean that this right ought to place an obligation on everyone... to act in such as way as to support everyone else's health needs

Plans to scrap the Human Rights Act are top of their agenda as are plans for worryingly wide - ranging anti-extremism legislation.

Since the end of WWII, Germany has defined itself as a «civilian power», implying a reluctance to use military means as well as a desire to strengthening international law, preserving human rights and acting in a multilateral fashion.

Soon after the new IPAct was introduced, Liberty, a British organisation concerned with human rights protection, requested a judicial review to the High Court.Liberty argued that some powers protected by the Act such as the interception of communication, acquisition of communication history and the creation of bulk personal datasets breached the public's rights.

In 1822 the «Act to Prevent the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle» was steered through the House of Commons by Irish MP Richard Martin — known as «Humanity Dick» because of his campaigning for both animal and human rights.

Why take a 10 - 20 seat majority, totally beholden to the Tory right, when you can have an 80 seat majority with the Lib Dems to act as human shields.

«SERAP argues that a confession or prima facie evidence of grand corruption and the staggering effects of grand corruption fall within the Nigerians» right to know as guaranteed under the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights and the Freedom of Information Act.»

The failure to fulfil the Tory pledge for automatic jail sentences for carrying a knife illegally and the fact the Human Rights Act still has not been replaced by a British Bill of Rights are certainly points against the Conservatives, but they were respectively scored by Ken Clarke and a Commission set up by the Prime Minister, so count as own goals.

David Cameron in the Sunday Express used it as an excuse to attack the European Union's Human Rights Act, while Tony Blair in the Observer claimed that he'd come up with a solution during his last years in power but it hadn't been implemented once he'd left Downing Street.

Both moves would open up a space to abandon the Human Rights Act (HRA)-- widely detested by Conservatives — as long as the British bill of rights still satisfies the European convention, albeit with minor alteraRights Act (HRA)-- widely detested by Conservatives — as long as the British bill of rights still satisfies the European convention, albeit with minor alterarights still satisfies the European convention, albeit with minor alterations.

Noel's case is brought using article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as incorporated into UK law by the Human Rights Act 1998, arguing that section 2 of the Suicide Act interferes with his right to private and family life.

The warnings by NGOs, such as Human Rights Watch in a coalition of 47 organizations in June that the UN was not sufficiently prepared for the elections and lacks «adequate and appropriate resources to protect civilians... and to avert election - related violence» (HRW 2011) were not acted upon.

As Jesse Norman and Peter Oborne have noted in their pamphlet Churchill's Legacy: The Conservative Case for the Human Rights Act, the ECHR stands as a formidable political achievement, and it would send a terrible message both to our European allies and to the world if we withdrew from iAs Jesse Norman and Peter Oborne have noted in their pamphlet Churchill's Legacy: The Conservative Case for the Human Rights Act, the ECHR stands as a formidable political achievement, and it would send a terrible message both to our European allies and to the world if we withdrew from ias a formidable political achievement, and it would send a terrible message both to our European allies and to the world if we withdrew from it.

And, as under the Human Rights Act 1998, the legislature may permit the courts to point out, but not to correct, inconsistency with entrenched law.

But sudden big changes in the UK constitution are not easily accepted, as we have seen with the likes of giving more power to the EU and the Human Rights Act, which gives the European Court of Human Rights jurisdiction in the UK and which the Tories want to replace.

Mr Blair's response was to taunt Mr Cameron over his new plan to scrap the Human Rights Act, which was described as «xenophobic» by Ken Clarke, who heads up the Tories» Democracy Task Force.

«Council reaffirms the strong condemnation by the AU of all act of violence, committed by whomsoever, as well as of human rights abuses, including killings, extra-judicial executions, violations of the physical integrity of persons, acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman and / or degrading treatment, and arbitrary arrests and illegal detentions, violations of the freedom of the press and freedom of expression and the prevalence of impunity,» the AU said.

Appeals against the rulings of UK courts can still be taken to the European Court of Human Rights, as they could be prior to the Act.

The High Court in Accra, Human Rights Division, presided over by His Lordship Justice Anthony K. Yeboah, today [Monday], ordered the Electoral Commission to implement within 12 months, the Representation of the People Amendment Act also known as the...

When Labour came to power in 1997 they expressed a desire to move these issues onto the agenda, with a Human Rights Act, a PM opposed to ID cards, and such things as an «Ethical foreign policy» to express a belief that the rights of others could be placed above our national intRights Act, a PM opposed to ID cards, and such things as an «Ethical foreign policy» to express a belief that the rights of others could be placed above our national intrights of others could be placed above our national interest.

As Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, has pointed out, Grieve's departure «is a very worrying signal of how the government values human rights in particular» and recalled that the ex-attorney general's maiden speech was in support of the Human Rightshuman rights in particular» and recalled that the ex-attorney general's maiden speech was in support of the Human Rightrights in particular» and recalled that the ex-attorney general's maiden speech was in support of the Human RightsHuman RightsRights Act.

In 2007 he framed the proposal as the antithesis of the Human Rights Act when he blamed the latter for creating «an excessive sensitivity to the demands of criminals».

As the Commission has identified, one of the weaknesses of the Human Rights Act is that it suffers from a lack of public ownership,» said the group's deputy director Alexandra Runswick.