Sentences with phrase «children rights activist»

An exclusive Interview with Jasmina Kalezic a Montenegrin Teacher and Children Rights Activist, by: Kaveh Taheri Introduction: — Unlike other countries of the Balkan Peninsula, Montenegro was able to maintain its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Meanwhile, child rights activist and Child Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting (CRISP) president Kumar V. Jahgirdar is urging the central government of India to declare parental alienation as a crime.

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Activist Alberdingk Thijm does groundbreaking work helping activists use smartphone cameras to defend human rights, but her most profound influence is incredibly down - to - earth: classic children's book character Pippi Longstocking

In what apparently is the latest incident in a campaign to push children toward becoming LGBT - rights activists, a teacher has instructed a middle - school student to sign up for «recurring text messages» associated with an LGBT «Day of Silence» campaign.

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February has reignited the debate about how to keep children safe from a future attack, with President Trump and gun rights activists saying the best solution is to let teachers carry guns.

Of course, to put abortion in such simple, black and white terms can be shocking to some — and many pro-abortion activists would disagree, saying that a child is not human or nor a person or does not possess rights, or some other such argument.

They were treated to a litany of anti-LGBT propaganda, including the false claims that being molested as a child causes hom.ose.xuality, that LGBT people are se.xual predators trying to turn children gay by molesting them, and that gay rights activists want to replace marriage with a culture of se.xual promiscuity.

Dubbed «Bonds that Matter» for its focus on these beginning - of - life issues, the ICRI's inaugural conference gathered scholars, activists, and students from around the country to Simi Valley, California last Friday to discuss the various ways in which these four practices violate children's rights.

Yes... this is the severist most ignorant form of human brotherhood... but Bill Nye, is taking the first step towards his goal, and the goal of many athiest activist... take the rights away from God believers... because... a hundred reasons... children will be hurt, holds back our country yada yada... be careful who you get suckered in by as you travel these few years we are given on this earth... allow your brother to be your brother... allow him to chose for his life and family... never cross the line of «knowing better.»

In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

[37] In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

LGBT activists seek to advance the idea that any limits on rights of «parenting» would be a violation of the principle of equality and thus an injustice, setting aside the fact that a child is always born of the union of a man and a woman — even if this union may sometimes be medically assisted.

LGBT activists seek to advance the idea that any limits on the rights of «parenting» would be a violation of the principle of equality and thus an injustice, thereby setting aside the fact that a child is always born of the union of a man and a woman — even if this union may sometimes be medically assisted.

I am only 20, and a part time student / full time activist, but I intend to have a child some day when I meet Mr. Right and have a house, and a good job, and so forth.

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Today we remember Martin Luther King, Jr., the American minister - turned - civil rights activist whose legacy stretches even into the realms of parenting — if you consider that many of his quotes centered on peace and harmony can be aptly applied to homes that strive to raise their children with peace, warmth, trust, and nonviolence.

Attachment Parenting International shared this touching story from Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking and children's rights activist ~

Dr. Benjamin Spock, who remains controversial even after death for pushing a vegetarian diet for young children in the latest edition of his baby book, was an anti-war activist, civil rights leader, health care reformer and one of the great liberals of the 20th Century.

Malala (Yousafzai) is not only an inspirational young children's rights activist, she also has a pretty cool first name which is garnering affection.

Mr Brown told party activists: «No - one who sells drugs to our children or uses guns has the right to stay in our country.»

That phrasing — with its intimation that gays might prey on children — hardly seems the kind of guarantee sought by the United States and other Western governments and human rights activists.

He is, tragically, the victim of a growing proclivity of the Chinese government to use children of rights lawyers and activists as hostages to press their parents.

Prominent women's rights activists and elected officials are urging the Manhattan Democratic Party to rescind a sitting judge's nomination to a prestigious post, because she allowed evidence of an abortion to be presented in a child custody case.

In England, deaf activists protested a 2007 bill that allowed for genetic selection only against certain diseases and disabilities, and prohibit selection for them, claiming deaf parents should have the right to select a deaf child if hearing parents have the right to select a hearing child [source: TimesOnline].

She is one of the most respected female filmmakers to come from Cuba and women and children's rights activist.

A smart, touching, tragic, goofy and surprisingly captivating dramatic biography of Irish children's rights activist Christina Noble.

«Two years ago, a group of Washington State families with transgender children banded together with activists and like - minded lawmakers and fought tooth and nail against the wave of anti-trans rights legislation that swept the nation and their home state.»

A LEADING activist for children's rights has called on students to play a part in transforming a system of schooling in England that he claims is not fit for purpose.

Hrabowski — a child of prominent Civil Rights activist of the 1960s — has long advocated for minority rights and education throughout his career as an activist, educator, administrator, author, and consuRights activist of the 1960s — has long advocated for minority rights and education throughout his career as an activist, educator, administrator, author, and consurights and education throughout his career as an activist, educator, administrator, author, and consultant.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.

More outcry is likely to come in the coming months as reformers and civil rights activists in D.C., Tennessee and other states learn how the waiver gambit has essentially allowed states to damn children through the soft bigotry of low expectations.

As civil rights activists learned after the Morgan ruling, reformers must realize that the federal government must play a strong role on behalf of poor and minority children.

Just as importantly, eight decades of court rulings — driven by the courtroom work of civil rights activists and school funding equity advocates — also provides reformers with the legal arguments necessary to challenge tenure laws and other policies that impede the constitutional obligation of states to provide children with high - quality education.

She helps us believe that finding the best school for our children is not limited to what's right in front of us, and that being an activist can also be a matter of choice.

«While it's true that currently the students opting out are disproportionately white, to portray opting out as a white people thing is to make invisible the important leadership role that people of color have played around the country,» writes teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian in an article he wrote to push back against the perceived wisdom that high - stakes standardized testing will somehow right the wrongs done to generations of children.

The $ 300,000 NEA and AFT gave to Al Sharpton's National Action Network in 2014 - 2015, for example, hasn't stopped the controversial civil rights activist from being a strong supporter for expanding public charter schools, while outfits such as the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights have sparred with the Big Two over federal accountability rules contained over the now - abolished No Child Left Behinrights activist from being a strong supporter for expanding public charter schools, while outfits such as the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights have sparred with the Big Two over federal accountability rules contained over the now - abolished No Child Left BehinRights have sparred with the Big Two over federal accountability rules contained over the now - abolished No Child Left Behind Act.

Yet education traditionalists, ivory tower civil rights activists, and dyed - in - the - wool progressives, still stuck on integration as school reform, would rather criticize charters for supposedly perpetuating segregation (even though most urban communities largely consist of one race or class) than embrace a tool for helping poor and minority families give their children opportunities for high - quality education.

Soulful and uplifting, this tribute introduces an important social activist (often referred to as «the Voice of the Civil Rights Movement») who opened the eyes and delighted the ears of countless folk singers and music lovers, but will likely be a fresh subject for children.

She's a longtime legal activist and a champion of children's rights.

Mary Two - Axe Earley, Kanien» kehá: ka (Mohawk) elder, advocate for women and children, human rights activist (born 4 October 1911 on the Kahnawà: ke reserve, QC; died 21 August 1996 in the same place).

According to the Reporters Without Borders Web site, 69 - year - old human rights activist Khedija Arfaoui is facing an eight - month jail sentence imposed by a court in Tunisia for posting a message on Facebook referring to rumors about children being kidnapped in the country for their organs.

She is an activist for LGBT equality, women's rights, and human rights, especially as they relate to maternal and child health.

Louise started her career teaching math and quickly became a leading activist and advocate on peace and social justice issues including the rights of women, minorities, the economically disadvantaged and exceptional children.

High school students and parents of color began to document the increasing use of a get - tough approach to discipline in schools and coined the phrase «school - to - prison pipeline» to describe the cycle of harsh discipline and justice system involvement that they saw.8 These activists were soon joined by a small group of academics and civil rights advocates, who produced and disseminated research on the racially discriminatory impact of zero - tolerance school disciplinary policies on children.9

Another example raises the question of what influences advocacy, this one from a woman lawyer and AFCC activist who inexplicably lobbies for joint custody and father's rights (and more therapeutic jurisprudence in the courts) even though the arrangement worked for neither herself as a child, nor, ultimately, her own daughter: [ANONYMOUS LISTSERVE COMMENT]: «In personal life, we learn things about the day to day realities too, that influence the lenses through which we see life.

Pat Boyd, of Parents Without Partners, Jim Cook, president of the Joint Custody Association, an FR organization, Karen DeCrow, former president of NOW and well - known misguided supporter of the FR agenda (but if you didn't know this, her inclusion on a quick glance down the roster certainly makes this organization look woman - friendly, doesn't it), Ellen Diamond, Children's Rights Council Co-founder Phyllis Diller, an entertainer Warren Farrell «Ph.D., a self - proclaimed «sexologist» and father's rights activist, Larry Caughan, director of Family Mediation of Washington, DC, Jonathan Goodson, the Hollywood TV producer, Jennifer Isham, president of Mothers Without Custody, and Joan Berlin Kelly, researcher and aRights Council Co-founder Phyllis Diller, an entertainer Warren Farrell «Ph.D., a self - proclaimed «sexologist» and father's rights activist, Larry Caughan, director of Family Mediation of Washington, DC, Jonathan Goodson, the Hollywood TV producer, Jennifer Isham, president of Mothers Without Custody, and Joan Berlin Kelly, researcher and arights activist, Larry Caughan, director of Family Mediation of Washington, DC, Jonathan Goodson, the Hollywood TV producer, Jennifer Isham, president of Mothers Without Custody, and Joan Berlin Kelly, researcher and author.