Sentences with phrase «at human rights»

We will return to Washington D.C. on April 17 - 18 at the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) Equality Center and continue to work towards a fully inclusive society.

The National Inquiry was conducted by my predecessor, Professor Mick Dodson, at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and among its many findings, concluded that from 1910 to 1970, between 1 in 10 and 1 in 3 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were forcibly removed from their families.

I am particularly honoured to do so in my capacity as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

I believe that these principles provide a useful lens through which to look at any human rights challenge confronting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

She also worked at Human Rights Watch.

In the run up to this year's International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on 9 August, Amnesty International's Indigenous Rights Campaigner Roxanne Moore looks at the human rights and... Read more

I am delighted that joining us here today we have Mark Bin Barkar and Alec Kruger — two men who were honoured at the Human Rights Awards yesterday for their contribution to the promotion of human rights in Australia for work that predominately relates to the stolen generations.

In the run up to this year's International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on 9 August, Amnesty International's Indigenous Rights Campaigner Roxanne Moore looks at the human rights and health consequences of racism.

[18] Brennan, S., Recent Developments in Native Title Case Law, Presentation at the Human Rights Law Bulletin Seminar: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney, 4 June 2007.

As a mission - driven not - for - profit, Mozilla also supports people who are helping build a more humane digital world — people like Rebecca Ricks, a Ford - Mozilla Fellow hosted at Human Rights Watch.

The first multilateral discussion on fully autonomous weapons took place at the Human Rights Council in May 2013, but states have not proposed any work to address fully autonomous weapons in this forum.

After the matter of «lethal autonomous robots» was first raised at the Human Rights Council in May 2013, nations agreed in November 2013 to a Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) discussion mandate to address questions relating to the emerging technology of «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is holding a briefing on Wednesday, 11 June at 17:00 (5:00 pm) in Room XXII of Building E at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva to look at human rights concerns with killer robots in advance of the 12 June presentation to the Human Rights Council of a new report on the matter by Professor Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

When Prof. Heyns presented his first report on killer robots at the Human Rights Council one year ago on 30 May, representatives from twenty nations and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots provided their views on the matter for the first time in a multilateral forum.

The first multilateral debate on killer robots took place at the Human Rights Council in May 2013, but states have not considered this topic at the Council since then.

It remains to be seen if nations speaking on the topic at the Human Rights Council on 12 June will propose any specific action.

The remarks are the latest in a string of statements that United Nations (UN) officials have made on the topic during 2013 at the Human Rights Council, Convention on Conventional Weapons, and elsewhere.

On Monday, April 22, the Steering Committee of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots convened a day - long conference at the Human Rights Action Centre in London for representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to discuss the new initiative to pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons.

Today at the Human Rights Council in Geneva two high - ranking UN experts issued a new report that includes a call to ban fully autonomous weapons.

Julie Harmgardt, Law» 16, in New Delhi, where she interned at the Human Rights Law Network in the summer of 2014.

More and more condominium corporations are receiving accommodation requests or facing discrimination complaints at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the «HRTO»).

This decision may signal an increase in reinstatement orders at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario («HRTO»), and in civil cases involving allegations of discrimination under the Human Rights Code.

Our Brampton based team of lawyers have expertise dealing in negotiations, settling human rights complaints at the Human Rights Tribunal, and arguing cases before Superior and Appeal - level courts.

For an application to be fully processed at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the applicant must establish a nexus or «connection» between the protected ground they are alleging and the conduct of the respondent.

The legal doctrine of res judicata can cause an Application at the Human Rights Tribunal to be dismissed.

Before law school, she worked as a U.S Program Associate at Human Rights Watch, where she assisted on immigration reform and criminal justice policy.

advice on human rights matters and representing employers at human rights tribunal hearings for both employment - related and service - related complaints

First Reference Talks Two kicks at the can: Worker allowed to re-litigate WSIB accommodation dispute at the Human Rights Tribunal Most employers are likely familiar with the WSIB return to work process which often involves a WSIB employee attending at the workplace for the purpose of identifying suitable and sustainable work for the injured worker.

The independence of the judiciary will be one of the topics discussed at the Human Rights Session hosted during the AIJA Half - Year Conference on 24 May, in Warsaw.

We regularly defend, mediate and advocate on behalf of clients at human rights tribunals.

Sarah has also volunteered at the Human Rights Law Centre (University of Nottingham) on projects for the EU Fundamental Rights Agency and at Kaplan Legal Advice Centre advising clients on property disputes.

Some of the available remedies at the Human Rights Tribunal are mandatory reinstatement with back pay, general damages for discrimination, wage loss recovery, forced sensitivity courses, and human rights training.

Comparative perspectives will be explored with panelist Jim Wormington, West Africa Researcher at Human Rights Watch, as he discusses the state of the transitional justice process in Côte d`Ivoire.

However, Sally Ireland, director of criminal justice policy at human rights group Justice, said: «The courts already carry out a careful balance under Art 8 between the right to family life and the interests of the community, for example in preventing crime.

Self - represented applicants at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario have raised the issue of bias directly or indirectly through expressed concerns about lawyers on the Tribunal's practice advisory committee appearing for respondents: see Guilmoutdinov v. Ontario College of Teachers (2009 HRTO 2130), for example, where the adjudicator noted that advisory committees were frequently used by tribunals to promote responsiveness to the communities they serve and concluded that membership on the committee did not create a reasonable apprehension of bias.

Previous to joining ABA ROLI as Director in 2014, she served for eight years as executive director and executive vice president of the American Society of International Law; for three years as director of ABA ROLI's Europe and Eurasia Division (previously known as ABA CEELI); and for eight years at Human Rights Watch, as a researcher, as director of advocacy and, ultimately, as executive director of its Europe and Central Asia Division.

[They couldn't] get a different answer at the human rights tribunal.»

Ms. Abbey challenged the ODSP policy at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.

Kate Sellar, a lawyer at the Human Rights Legal Support Centre in Toronto, told Legal Feeds that the digital evidence — which showed the respondent soliciting the applicant through a series of text messages — was useful in determining the outcome of the case.

«It's their duty to look at these human rights - related arguments.

She has been in sole practice for 19 years advising and appearing for a broad range of people and organisations since leaving her role as counsel at the Human Rights Commission.

A law graduate who lost her discrimination claim against her articling principal has once again found herself stymied at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.

A man challenging the constitutionality of Canada's nudity laws this week has a long history of legal battles with police, including at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.

An employee who is subject to a hostile work environment because of his or her race, sex, age, disability, family status, or any other trait listed in Ontario's Human Rights Code, may be able to file a claim at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.

It will be cross-posted at the Human Rights in Ireland Blog.

Aruna Kashyap, senior counsel for the women's rights division at Human Rights Watch, says this is not an unrealistic request:

Newtopia: The State of Human Rights looks at human rights through the work of 70 international contemporary artists.

As an employee at the Human Rights Media Centre in Cape Town and with many of your projects focused on societal issues, do you consider human rights activism a driver of your work as an artist?

I worked as media officer at the Human Rights Media Centre in Cape Town though my studies and through the work was exposed to the importance of oral history, particularly to highlight the grassroots voices often discounted by the grand narrative of history.

Extending a call for exhibition proposals at The Human Rights Institute Gallery at Kean University in Union, New Jersey.