Sentences with phrase «develop citizen rights»

Machiavelli wrote not only The Prince but Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy, in which he went on to develop citizen rights and the institution of tribunes to protect them.

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Such protection demands more than freedom from refoulement, but respect for human rights akin to nationals in host countries, which is difficult to demand in developing countries struggling to secure basic rights even for their own citizens.

The Foundation also focuses on developing leaders and citizens with a sound understanding and a deep commitment to quality education, democracy, economic development and human rights as underlying values for building a peaceful, prosperous and ambitious country.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, she voted against the repealing of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» legislation, opposed legislation that would grant equal tax treatment for employer - provided health coverage for domestic partners, opposed legislation to grant same - sex partners of U.S. citizens and permanent residents the same immigration benefits of married couples and opposed legislation to permit state Medicaid programs to cover low - income, HIV - positive Americans before they develop AIDS.

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

When it comes to civics and citizenship education, they found the three aims principals considered to be most important were: promoting students» critical and independent thinking (64 per cent); promoting students» knowledge of citizens» rights and responsibilities (61 per cent); and, developing students» skills and competencies in conflict resolution (44 per cent).

As schools and their partners now begin to shape their response to the revised citizenship education curriculum, it is important to balance the opportunities it offers young people to understand their voting rights and develop the tools they need to manage their future finances with a corresponding need to encourage their growth as citizens of a globalised society.

Under whatever name you call it: «turnaround schools,» «Commissioner's Network,» or «schools of choice,» the bottom line is that citizens in the communities designated as under - performing based on these inadequately - developed and unproven tests have been stripped of their civil rights.

Then, with their freely - chosen support, the sky is the limit: reallocate sections of the defense budget to selective nation - building; change agricultural policy to favor sustainable home - grown food where possible in the interests of health and national security; create programs that encourage Americans to help with sanitation, agriculture and birth control in developing countries; slice away the parts of government that get in the way (thereby freeing up the budget); protect citizen and consumer's rights; strictly regulate pollution; shut down destabilizing financial schemes, and eventually earn enough respect in the world that we're not the only ones on the bandwagon.

As noted above, we take «the right to sustainable development» to mean that developing countries have the right to provide their citizens with sustainable living standards, equivalent to those available to the citizens of any other country.

The concept is that every human being on this planet has the right to emit the same amount of carbon dioxide; therefore, citizens of developing nations would be given the same quota for emissions as citizens in industrialized nations.

I can think of no better occasion for seeking to find a solution to the problem of developing an Canadian constitution in Canada — of finally «patriating» our constitution — than when we have reached agreement on constitutional protection of the basic rights of the citizen.

But in access to civil justice — the ability of all citizens to secure representation and enforce their rights in a timely manner — the US lags far behind other developed nations.

psiphon is a human rights software project developed by the Citizen Lab that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access to the Net through their home computers to friends and family members who live behind firewalls of states that censor.

Chapter 4 puts the case that the process for developing the NIC Principles is not consistent with Australia's obligations to ensure the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of its citizens.