Sentences with phrase «crime against future»

«The commitment to build a pipeline in 2018 when we are in climate crisis is a crime against future generations and I will not be part of it,» she said.

2007/04/20: CBC: Suzuki delivering environmental petition to Baird Calling it a crime against future generations to ignore warnings about global warming, environmentalist David Suzuki was to present a petition to Environment Minister John Baird on Friday.

The repealing of the Carbon Tax, which the graph indicates was highly effective at reducing emissions from the Australian energy sector, was a crime against the younger people of Australia and the world, and a crime against future generations.

Less than a week after Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, this heinous attack is a crime against the future of all children and the nation of Pakistan.

The group just wrapped up a two - day symposium in Montreal at which more than 100 experts in international law explored ways to use legal tools, most of which are oriented toward doling out justice among those alive now, to avert what amount to crimes against the future.

Not exact matches

Not that long ago the Vatican believed in protecting pedophile priests without regard for their past or future crimes against children.

Here the Pope seems to be opposing a long tradition, based on Scripture, which has defended capital punishment for its value as retribution for the evil done and as a deterrence against future crime.

In an article about the future of litigation against «Don't Ask, Don't Tell,» Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, was quoted last week in Politico as suggesting the administration's defense of the law in court would allow the federal hate crimes law to stay on the books.

It seems, that it is now forbidden to accuse the Polish state of crimes against humanity in past, present and future.

As such they include in the list not only confirmed criminals but also people who can be suspected to conduct or coordinate crimes against the United States in the future, say on the ideological basis.

I'd like to see more, and I'd like to see some attention paid to deforestation, which will have to be brought under control if we are to reduce CO2 emissions and is in any case nothing less than a crime against the human future.

Through a combination of commitment and intelligence, Indonesia is now making strides in the war against wildlife crime, and in securing the natural heritage of Indonesia for its citizens — now and in the future.

I hope that in future crimes against humanity hearing will be held.

The action will come 2 days after a People's Tribunal is held in nearby Montreuil on December 10, where individuals facing the frontline impacts of these fossil fuel projects will call them out for what they are — climate crimes against people and our common future.

One such critic is James Hansen, the NASA climate - scientist - turned - amateur - dramatist who suggests that future generations will find the GWPF «guilty of crimes against humanity and nature».

He also has an active white collar practice, advising on criminal prosecutions and investigations by different regulators and authorities, including the Securities and Futures Commission, the Commercial Crime Bureau and the Independent Commission Against Corruption.