Sentences with phrase «community health rights»

... We can't continue to bounce around the same arguments and with no noticeable gain in community health rights.

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Beginning in 2003, the Division of Corporate Finance too often has issued no - action letters omitting shareholder proposals that ask management to undertake a risk assessment or review the financial implications of an array of environmental, community, public health and human rights concerns and issues.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

These contortions distort the way the UN addresses reproductive health services and the efforts of the reproductive rights community, and have resulted in a column that is a disservice to the readers of First Things.

The residents identify what is wrong in their neighborhood with regard to health, education, employment and community safety, and they themselves set about puffing it right.

What it means is that the assurance of our health — spiritual health, right relationship with God, adjustment to things as they really are — is given, and only given, as positive assurance within the Christian community because the Christian community, in its deepest meaning, is the continuing of God's saving work, His health - giving action, through Christ himself.

Furthermore, our efforts should be directed toward community participation in and sharing in the responsibility for mental health, not because of any ulterior motives but because this is just and right.

It seems that in our little health food community, bowl format has become the default lunch format, and we are right there with everyone, happy to enjoy a veggie loaded and colorful lunch bowl, any time of day really.

Agri - TNCs Network - Philippines, MASIPAG (Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag - unlad ng Agrikultura), KMP (Kilusang Mangbubukid ng Pilipinas), PNSFP (Philippine Network for Food Security Programs), SIBAT (Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya), HEAD (Health action for Democracy), PAN Phils (Pesticide Action Network - Phils, TFIP (Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples Rights), CENDI (Community Entrepreneur Development Institute), SRD (Center for Sustainable Rural Development), Vietnam, SPFT (Southern Peasants Federation of Thailand), AGRA (Alliance of Agrarian Reform Movement), SERUNI National Women's Alliance, Indonesia, NWFA (National Women Farmers and Workers Association), BAFLF (Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation), SHISUK (Shikha Shastha Unnayan Karzakram), Bangladesh, APVUU (Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union), ORRISSA (Organization for Rural Reconstruction and Integrated Social Services Activities), CREATE, India THANAL, India, Save Our Rice Network, India, PAN-INDIA (Pesticide Action Network - India), India, GRAIN, PAN-AP (Pesticide Action Network - Asia Pacific), APC (Asian Peasants Coalition), Consumers Union of Japan, Women's Development Federation WELIGEPOLA, MONLAR, Sri Lanka

Right now we have a national obesity problem, so why aren't we asking for money to raise healthier students, to support coordinated school health, for more nutrition education, more collaboration with partners, parents and the community to encourage children to try new foods, to develop recipes, to provide technical assistance and set professional standards?

We work with kids right in the settings where they're learning and developing: schools, child care centres, camps, health care centres and community organizations.

The WHO Global Strategy recognises that for breastfeeding to be successful mothers and families need the right support along the whole course of breastfeeding — from giving birth in a Baby Friendly hospital, to going home to find skilled local support from midwives, health visitors, GPs, and mother support groups throughout their communities.

Baby Milk Action took Nestlé at its word and entered into this «dialogue» — as a result Nestlé had to publish corrections and apologies in subsequent issues of the Code Action Report, including a full - page right - to - reply from Baby Milk Action after it disputed our evidence regarding its use of community health workers to promote baby milks in the Philippines.

Source: Michigan League for Public Policy, 2017 Right Start Annual Report on Maternal and Child Health, Muskegon Community Report

Abrams E, Eliminating vertical transmission, Rights here, right now: Slide presentation at XVIII International AIDS Conference, July 18 - 23, 2010, Vienna, Austria ICAP Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV slide set ICAP Video, Saving two lives: Improving retention, adherence & psychsocial support within PMTCT services, Uploaded by ICAP Columbia on 3 Mar 2011 This video is a component of the «Improving Retention, Adherence and Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: A Toolkit for Health Workers,»; reinforces key PMTCT messages; can be shown to a wide range of audiences, including PMTCT clients, family members, and caregivers of HIV - exposed and HIV - infected children; including in clinic waiting rooms, as part of group education sessions, and in the community.

Senate Resolution 170 recognizes the unique health, economic, and societal benefits that breastfeeding provides to babies, mothers, families and the community and resolves the state of Illinois to work to ensure that barriers to initiation and continuation of breastfeeding are removed and that a women's right to breastfeed is upheld.

We also engaged in a community forum and strategy session to address issues of perinatal health inequities and human rights in maternity care.

For breastfeeding to be successful families need the right support along the whole course of breastfeeding: from giving birth in a Baby Friendly hospital, going home to find skilled local support from health visitors, GPs, and having access to support groups throughout their communities.

The bill, which would require surrogates to undergo medical and psychological screenings and intended parents to have a join consultation with a mental health professional, reflects input from various community groups, including LGBT advocacy organizations such as the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Family Equality Council, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR).

Sex Positions The MSI Partnership, in collaboration with Interact Worldwide, has launched a campaign to put pressure on the UK government to take the lead in ensuring that the international donor community fulfils promises made a decade ago to support global efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all by 2015; and to lead opposition to those political and ideological forces in the USA, Europe and elsewhere that are actively seeking to undermine and even reverse progress made in the last decade.

This is achieved by working with key decision - makers and through the international development community, emphasising the integral role sexual and reproductive health plays in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), ensuring gender rights and reducing poverty.

The goal of the demonstration is meant to provide «solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families — recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country.»

«We must find more ways to protect taxpayers and create good jobs, ensure access to quality, affordable health care for all New Yorkers, ensure voting rights, protect women's rights, ensure our education system receives the resources it deserves, repair and fully fund our decaying infrastructure and MTA, and stand up for vulnerable communities under attack by the Trump administration.»

Whereas previously, under the MHA 1983, patients lost the right to refuse medical treatment whilst subject to hospital detention, once discharged from their section and returned to the community they regained the same rights of citizenship as the rest of us, such as the right to refuse medical treatment, even if this goes against professional medical opinion and is likely to be detrimental to our health.

As community leaders in the Greater Buffalo area served by Catholic Health, we wish to bring to your attention the recent report by the Workers» Rights Board of Buffalo's Coalition for Economic Justice.

In a community school, you know from the beginning that mental health professionals are right there, available to all kids.»

«We are as a community to say clear and loud that transgender rights are human rights,» stated Guillermo Chacón, President of the Latino Commission on AIDS and Founder of the Hispanic Health Network.

(Pictured left to right: John Demers, Capital District Physicians Health Plan; Dr. Steady Moono, President, Schenectady County Community College; Sean Fitzgerald, Assistant Commissioner HCR; Hon. Kathy Sheehan, Albany Mayor; Assemblyman John McDonald; Steven T. Longo, Executive Director, Albany Housing Authority)

And she added that the city has an immigrant health initiative, passed legislation keeping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement off of Rikers Island and the Criminal Justice Reform Act — and has hosted events around the city «to really inform members of our community about their rights.»

Pictured in back, left to right: another resident (holding ribbon); Angela Beniamino, representative of State Senator Michael Nozzolio; Mike Newman, Housing Director, NYS Office of Mental Health; Mark Wickham, CEO of Lakeview Mental Health Services, Inc.; Scott LaVigne, Director of Community Services for Seneca County; and Tom VanNortwick, HCR Assistant Commissioner for the Buffalo Region.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

Older adults also have access to health care right on site at the Union Community Health Chealth care right on site at the Union Community Health CHealth Center.

The event will feature medical, public health and human rights experts looking to offer an open and honest conversation about the effects of the virus in Africa and the current climate in our own communities, while providing facts about Ebola that can save lives.

The Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and NYC Health + Hospitals will also hold a series of Immigrant Health Care Rights forums starting today, in order to inform immigrant communities of their rights and options and to provide access to information and resoRights forums starting today, in order to inform immigrant communities of their rights and options and to provide access to information and resorights and options and to provide access to information and resources.

Staceyann Chin (right) with Wendy Stark, the executive director of the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center and a 2016 Impact Award honoree.

Although universally recognized, this human right remains largely ignored by governments, as well as the scientific, engineering, health and human rights communities.

Members interested in this area of work aim to expand the impact of the Coalition's work by growing the Coalition membership and building bridges with scientific, engineering, and health professionals as well as the human rights community.

However, much more can be achieved when the science, engineering and health communities embrace human rights as an area suitable for and deserving of robust inquiry, and become an influential voice in the defense of human rights.

Members interested in this area of work aim to raise the visibility of human rights principles as part of the practice of science and its applications, linking ethics codes that guide the scientific, engineering and health communities to human rights principles.

Members interested in this area of work aim to strengthen communication between the scientific, engineering and health communities and human rights organizations to identify human rights efforts that could benefit from scientific approaches, tools and technologies, and then assist in making these accessible to human rights practitioners.

The meeting, held at AAAS headquarters, gathered scientists, engineers, health professionals, human rights advocates, community activists and policy makers to discuss water and human rights.

«There might not be a huge burden of disease from heat - related illness right now in your community,» says Jeremy Hess, an emergency medicine physician and public health researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle.

In recent years, the international community has increasingly recognized the right to health as a crucial component of well - being.

A human rights paradigm for environmental health research incorporates support for community - based, participatory research and takes seriously the social responsibilities of researchers.

Bioethics, health law, and human rights are all members of a globalized human rights community that takes individual rights, the right to health, and the public's health as core concerns.

A practicing community pharmacist, her other research and policy interests include health literacy, parents» use of children's medicines, direct - to - consumer advertising of medications, and improving access to medicines by extending prescribing rights.

The project focused on the rights to health and to food, and the background research on the environmental factors affecting the realization of particular human rights became a resource for the human rights and environmental communities undertaking the development of standards, benchmarks, and indicators.

«Having an accurate overview of how different regions of countries are connected by human movement aids effective disease control planning and helps target resources, such as treated bed nets or community health workers, in the right places.

Wyndham called for human rights and scientific, engineering and health communities to come together around common goals, adding that the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition is the best existing forum in which to hold such discussions and develop a joint strrights and scientific, engineering and health communities to come together around common goals, adding that the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition is the best existing forum in which to hold such discussions and develop a joint strRights Coalition is the best existing forum in which to hold such discussions and develop a joint strategy.

Jessica Wyndham, Interim Director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program (SRHRL) opened the meeting, noting that both the scientific and human rights communities are on alert, evaluating the statements and watching closely the actions of the new US administration in areas including climate change, the environment, health, reproductive rights, and freedom of information and freedom of expreRights and Law Program (SRHRL) opened the meeting, noting that both the scientific and human rights communities are on alert, evaluating the statements and watching closely the actions of the new US administration in areas including climate change, the environment, health, reproductive rights, and freedom of information and freedom of exprerights communities are on alert, evaluating the statements and watching closely the actions of the new US administration in areas including climate change, the environment, health, reproductive rights, and freedom of information and freedom of exprerights, and freedom of information and freedom of expression.