Sentences with phrase «children in the justice»

Exhibit three: disturbing reports about the treatment of children in the justice system.
Founded in 1897, PTA has been a leading voice in policy decisions that have forever changed the lives of America's children, including the passage of child labor laws, ensuring hot and nutritious lunches in schools, improvements to the unfair and punitive treatment of children in the justice system, and increased education opportunities for all children.
It is apparent, however, that, for suitable cases, Views of the Child Reports can be a useful, expeditious and cost - efficient way of engaging children in the justice process and allowing their perspectives to be shared with their parents and professionals.
In recent years Commissioner Mitchell has investigated and reported on cyberbullying among young Australians, youth suicide and self - harm, the impact of family violence on children, the treatment of children in the justice system and, most recently, the challenges facing teenage parents and their children.

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In total, 15 billion pages of data were stolen from at least 144 U.S. universities, 176 universities across 21 foreign countries, 47 domestic and foreign private sector companies, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the states of Hawaii and Indiana, the United Nations and the United Nations Children's Fund, the Justice Department alleged.
The video, created by Invisible Children filmmaker Jason Russell, sought to raise awareness of Kony's crimes in the hopes that he would be found and brought to justice.
In 1995, Calvin Klein faced an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department on allegations its advertisements constituted child pornography; now, American Apparel can barely draw press coverage by using actual porn stars in porny poses in its adIn 1995, Calvin Klein faced an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department on allegations its advertisements constituted child pornography; now, American Apparel can barely draw press coverage by using actual porn stars in porny poses in its adin porny poses in its adin its ads.
Williams joined the Sherwood Foundation in September 2006, where she has developed a diverse portfolio focusing primarily on child welfare, family economic well - being, and social and racial justice.
Most Supreme Court watchers are predicting that a majority of justices will side with the petitioner — Mark Janus, a child support specialist for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services — against labor in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31.
Former policeman Daniel Walker found himself in some of the most dangerous places on our planet, rescuing children and women forced into prostitution and bringing to justice the pimps who trafficked them.
Dr Billings, who was deputy leader of Sheffield City Council in the 1980s, said: «My first priority will be to keep the police focussed on doing everything to ensure that all instances of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham are fully investigated with perpetrators brought to justice, officials held to account and victims fully supported.
The Prison Reform Trust has said children in care in England and Wales aged 10 - 17 are five times more likely enter the criminal justice system than other children of their age.
Children should be taught the facts that Jesus is the True God in flesh or they may burn forever is the furnances of Divine Justice.
People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.
But gee, so Dorothy Day, the SCLS and Martin Luther King and all those religiously oriented people who restrain their baser impulses, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, take in children no one else wants, seek justice for those society devalues in the name of money, power, or maintaining the hold of the class in power — all based on their beliefs — are dangerous to society and mentally ill?
Together these leaders — long identified with the struggle for racial and economic justice — demand a test of vouchers with one basic criterion in mind: «Do public scholarships help or hurt our poorest children and the children of ethnic minorities?
Causing the death of an unborn child is in the Bible, for in the Bible at Exodus 21, it says that «in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices.
Christian magistrate Richard Page, who has sat as a Justice of the Peace in Kent for 15 years, has been told that he must undergo «equality training» before returning to work after he blocked the adoption of a child by a same - sex couple.
And yet the success of American forces in finally ending this particular man's reign of terror is an act of justice that even a child can recognize.
The media hounded Tim Farron for his Christian views; they did not regard it as acceptable for him to hold views other than those of the political elite, or the majority, Similarly, our belief in the personhood of the unborn child and the sanctity of their lives enables us to see abortion as a sin crying to heaven for justice, not merely some privately held opinion; for us it is most definitely not «a woman's choice».
I hope that every child, every parent, every person who was harmed by our great sins towards First Nations is able to tell their story, hear an apology, and witness first - hand what repentance and justice looks like in public.
And just as out of the small house of Nazareth came a child who grew into a man who was the salvation of the world, so out of this domesticity, grounded in the pre-eminence of the values of the spirit, came the fidelity to a sense of covenant with God in justice and freedom.
As my husband, who works in criminal justice, always says — people are always very concerned for their children's welfare after the fact.
I don't think in most cases that the priests and bishops involved in the cover - up actively desired for children to be abused, they just wanted to maintain the church's outward reputation and did not care that the collateral result was that the victims did not receive justice and that in many cases, more abuse occurred.
Dreams of peace and justice, dreams that I — and communist children alike — had been fed, were dangerous delusions in the hands of those who had the power and ambition to try to realize them fully.
The reporting requirement it urged Australia to adopt was one of 85 recommendations it made in a report aimed at revamping the criminal justice system to ensure fairer treatment of victims of child sexual abuse.
God arranges the encounter, «seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations shall be blessed in him,» and reveals for the first time His true interest in Abraham: «For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the ways of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice: to the end that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken of him» (18:17 — 19; emphasis added).
Abraham, the founder of a great nation, must do righteousness and justice, and command his children after him to do likewise, for only in this way can Abraham bring the Lord's righteous ways to the entire world, and thus be a blessing to all the nations of the earth.
Moreover, more than 40 percent of family - focused articles in these journals and in the CENTURY dealt with social - justice - related issues like child poverty.
Two groups we support are Children's Hope Chest in Colorado Springs, and The International Justice Mission in Washington D.C. I see that Jamie (the very worst missionary) recommends a few resources as well.
Bishops who promised to be fathers to their priests toss to the wolves the innocent and the guilty alike, all in the name of «protecting the children,» but protecting, in fact, themselves and an institution that has no reason for being other than to minister the justice and mercy of God.
At the same time, Jews, like adherents to other non-Christian religions, may with justice object to their children in school being forced either to sing or to pretend to sing of «Christ the Lord.»
It means that only as we recognize that God is a God above all tribal deities, a God above all national interests, a God who is the Father of all men and who loves the people of all nations as his children, only so can God lead us in the way of peace and justice.
The absence of sanctifying grace in the new - born child is an effect of the first sin, for Adam, having received holiness and justice from God, lost it not only for himself but also for everybody else.
In human life, a loving father must remember the demands of justice, or else concern for his child becomes sentimentality.
«We are telling politicians instead of our people emigrating why can't we secure a future for our children with a peace process where our children can live in justice as other children
1) Churches need to be a voice for economic justice for lower - income families by, for instance, advocating for more generous child and earned - income tax credits, as well as for the elimination of the marriage penalties embedded in many of our public policies directed towards lower - income families.
By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.
And we can pray with our children and then raise them to listen, and to work, and to partner with God in the work of truth - telling and reconciliation and justice.
The pope urged Mexican Catholics to remain true to their faith, and called on the Virgin Mary to «continue accompanying and protecting her beloved Mexican and Latin American children, so that Christ reigns in their lives and helps them to boldly promote peace, harmony, justice and solidarity.»
As for the conclusion of Aidan O'Neill QC, that schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff who refuse to use stories or textbooks promoting same - sex marriage and that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their children from lessons, does that sound at all unlikely, given the cases of the Strasbourg four, which were considered by the European Court of Justice in September?
Ireland stepped up its battle with the Roman Catholic Church over child abuse Sunday, with Justice Minister Alan Shatter vowing to pass a law requiring priests to report suspicions of child abuse, even if they learn about them in confession.
Every thoughtful person has understood that the pro-life position - explicitly and consistently articulated by the Catholic Church at every level of teaching authority - is that justice requires that every unborn child be cared for andprotected in law.
They can not, among other things, «awaken the child to cultural values» or «affect [children's] hearts and minds» in a way that will lead to a society where racial justice and reconciliation are the norm rather than the happy exception.
And may God bless you with enough foolishness... to believe that you can make a difference in the world, so that you can do what others claim can not be done, to bring justice and kindness to all our children and the poor.
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Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.
Citing examples of Christian mothers who were instrumental in the abolition of slavery and the passage of laws against child labor, she makes a strong case that virtues such as compassion and creativity that are «refined in the practice of motherhood can and should be used in other arenas to bring God's love, peace, mercy and justice to the world.»
If He is Love and Justice (and I think so), then I'll argue that the death of relatively innocent Canaanite children and animals is reconciled in eternity.
But in justice, we ought to ask what the same amount of money might do to preserve a child's natural family, and whether we're willing to provide it.
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