Sentences with phrase «challenging injustice»

Established in 1974, Bindmans has a long history and tradition of challenging injustice and protecting the rights and freedoms of ordinary people.

Throughout her entire career, Spero performed from the radical pacifist and feminist position, highly dedicated to her political, social and cultural convictions, constantly asking the questions and challenging injustice and violence.

The purpose of this class is to help students understand one approach to challenging injustice - the philosophy of nonviolence - and to understand how this strategy was deeply connected to the ultimate goal of its followers: achieving the Beloved Community.

Challenging the Injustice of Poverty: Operationalizing an Agenda for Inclusive Development Across Southeast Asia is a culmination of Professor Sobhan's efforts to understand the roots of economic exclusion across 5 countries over the past 4 years.

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

«The NASUWT is continuing to support its members in challenging these injustices, but much more action is needed by Government to affect the systemic change which is needed to ensure that no pupil or teacher is held back because of their ethnicity or faith.

«Later as a trade union organiser seeing the way in which we can challenge injustice at the workplace and inequality through trade union membership.

The case is being taken on human rights grounds, seeking to challenge the injustice that means religious ceremonies are recognised while humanist ones are not.

He said: «Sadiq has worked with faith groups, trade unions, local organisation and people of every kind to challenge injustice, fight all forms of discrimination, resolutely promote understanding and co-operation.

It's important to speak more than one language, to understand how to help others who are having trouble and to accept help yourself, to resolve conflicts, to work together to challenge injustice.

What kind of citizenship will I promote if I do not challenge injustice and the complacency that lets it flourish?

While not all YUC alumni will remain activists, says Rowe, YUC hopes that they will maintain a «deliberate, clear sense that they can take leadership and make changes and challenge injustice.»

DWN is a national coalition of organizations and individuals working to expose and challenge the injustices of the United States» immigration detention and deportation system and advocate for profound change that promotes the rights and dignity of all persons.

Women for Refugee Women challenges the injustices experienced by women and children who seek refuge in the UK.

Not exact matches

We can talk about wanting to show love towards women who have been hurt by gender injustice — and this is important — but it's even more important to challenge the status quo that allows it to happen.

That's a lot easier than acknowledging the injustices done to the impoverished or challenging the social and political structures that KEEP them impoverished.

He challenges Christians to stand up to racism, to stand beside the marginalized, to see the prospective of others and fight oppression and injustice.

Yet if the most important development in that doctrine in Caritas in Veritate is a strong linkage of the life issues to Catholic social - justice concerns, then it is also true that the challenge of this particular encyclical falls more sharply on those who believe that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided, and remedied an injustice in prior American law.»

At the same time, many of the poor and the recently impoverished have opted for participation in churches that embrace forms of the «prosperity gospel,» which promises rapid physical healing and does not challenge structural injustices.

But the primary intent of such challenge is for the sake of justice and to redress injustice, and not to secure benefits for the disadvantaged groups.

Many movements for social change, while seeking to halt violence or injustice, too often simply recast who is right and who is wrong, who is «us» and who is «them,» without challenging the paradigmatic assumption of duality.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

Oxfam, you are challenging the systematic injustice at the heart of our world that keeps people suffering and in chains.

«As a pastor, the Word of God tells me in James that the true religion that God our Father accepts is to speak forth and to stand and to fight for the orphans and the widows,» he told CT. «And that gives me a mandate as a pastor, to challenge corruption, injustice, and poverty within my community.»

It was a challenging time to become a conscientious Catholic, for racism and slavery were still rampant, inequality and injustice was on the increase, and anti-Catholicism was everywhere.

For all of us, the invitation is clear; to follow Jesus in identification and sharing with the weak, marginalized and poor of the world, because in them we encounter him: Knowing from the Gospel and from historical experience that to be rich is to risk forfeiting the kingdom, and knowing how close the links are, in today's world, between the abundance of some and the needs of others, Christians are challenged to follow him, surrendering all they are and have to the kingdom, to a struggle that commits us against all injustice, against all want.

If we exact hate, discrimination, injustice, exploitation, or injury upon any other human being, then we have to be willing to be accountable when we are challenged by the international community.

The course of history follows a tortured route: we fight injustice and seek noble goals, gain power to that end, somehow are corrupted by power and zeal, breed new injustices, and are challenged for our excesses and injustice.

It is present in the pontificate of Pope Francis as well, providing the theological coherence to his appeal for an authentic environmental ethics, and in his approaches to the challenges of poverty and economic injustice.

Poverty, disease, ethnic hatred and injustice are the oldest plagues on the human race and when we tackle them, we must not underestimate the challenge.

Montgomery, Alabama, based Equal Justice Initiative is challenging America's history of systemic racial and economic injustice.

In the past, family structures, slavery and caste kept many from recognizing or challenging social injustice.

The injustice of the penalty also helped fire the team up, and for the rest of the game, they looked really up for the challenge.

One other thing to throw in the mix, if we care to challenge ourselves to grow, can be to take a deeper look at the very things that provoke us (be it our wish to be more green colliding with our own human limitations to be perfect, or the injustices that seem clearly «wrong» to us).

These dads already know there are no easy solutions, but they don't give up calling attention to their challenges and the injustice they feel.

But she went close enough by saying it often felt like Conservatives were «the last» people to challenge social injustices in the UK.

Therefore if the next Labour government is to tackle the challenge of social injustice, reform of our economy will be vital.

Previous recipients of the International Solidarity Award are: Aung San Suu Kyi (2012) Jalila al Salman (2013) The National Executive has adopted seven guiding principles for conferring the Award to individuals whose contribution is to: (i) Defending human rights (ii) Defending trade union rights of teachers (iii) Working for quality education (iv) Demonstrating values of solidarity, equality and democracy (v) Educator / teacher (vi) Challenging violence, injustice, bigotry and hatred (vii) Working in countries outside the UK.

The Award highlights and celebrates the commitment of individuals to trade union values of solidarity, equality and democracy, and challenging violence, injustice, bigotry and hatred.

Some MPs are concerned that his radical stance of facing down corporations and taking on Tory cuts will have little resonance in areas where Labour is facing a tough electoral challenge from Ukip; but asked if the party should tailor its message for different audiences, Corbyn said: «No: you've got to give fundamentally the same message, of the injustice of economic austerity, and the way in which local government is being punished».

«Whether shining a light on sweeping injustice or bringing us along on an intimate journey, the best documentaries challenge and enlighten us, and this year?s nominees are no exception,» -LSB-...]

For Wii U — I still haven't done arkham asylums riddler challenges (you know, the ones you unlock by picking up all the riddler trophies), I haven't 100 % synched AC3 yet, I haven't found all of the 100 heroes yet (missing 25 guys) and not even normal difficulty has platinum medals on all missions, I haven't gotten all orbs in Trine 2, done all missions in the ZEN / SW tables I have, gotten all the pieces in Toki Tori 2, didn't unlock all artwork yet in chronicles of mystara, didn't get far in Zombi U or Need for speed — still have to catch up on months of DLC for monster hunter 3 Ultimate — still have to pick up the DLC for Injustice and haven't gotten around to buying Spiderman yet...

Release Date: Since her excellent 2010 debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying number of projects and platforms (including the short film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival).

«Hostiles» is a sincere effort from writer / director Scott Cooper at a Western that frankly grapples with the challenge of building a society on the unthinkable carnage and injustice of the past.

Visitors will be able to go hands - on with the console and games like Injustice: Gods Among Us, Lego City Undercover, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, New Super Mario Bros., Nintendo Land, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Rayman Legends Challenges App and Resident Evil: Revelations, though not all games will be available at all locations.

Johnson, who works in Mississipi, cited economic injustice as the primary challenge for southern schools, and community organizing as the best strategy for combating it.

According to her, the major concern in the training of arts teachers is to introduce them to challenging work in the arts on issues of racism, sexism, homophobia, disability, and other identity - based areas in which injustice still happens.

There has been less emphasis on what we might call «doorway» books, literature that illustrates what actions young people can take to challenge the bullying, bias, and injustice they see in their lives.

Liz Ricketts Special Studies Hometown: Flint, Michigan Then: Co-founder of The OR, a small nonprofit challenging consumer society by educating youth about the social and environmental injustices within the global fashion industry.

Provide writing prompts to help students consider ways to challenge bias, exclusion and injustice.