Sentences with phrase «economic rights»

The political right is moving back toward individual economic rights, and the younger generations are moving toward individual civil rights like being against substance and gay marriage laws.
The neglect of basic social and economic rights undermines such civil and political rights as freedom of expression and freedom of association.
Solar is economic right now, but only in rural areas not connected to grids.
As secretary of state she put women's health care and economic rights at the top of the global agenda.
«The CFPB tramples on the fundamental economic rights of American citizens, taking away their choices and opportunities... The resignation of the Bureau's director is an excellent opportunity to enact desperately needed reforms.»
The class - action lawsuit was filed in California by the Project on Predatory Student Lending and by the Housing and Economic Rights Advocates, USA Today reported.
Some progress has been made in the debate on ESCR indicators (38), but there is still a long way to go before these indicators become a tool that can effectively monitor the degree of compliance of social and economic rights by states.
This means that with the purchase of stock must come the same economic rights, such as receiving dividends or compensation in the event of liquidation at the same time and in the same amount per share as all other shareholders.
Second, those who give economic rights priority over other rights tend to forget that every repressive regime in the world, whether «left» as» «right,» shares their viewpoint.
Prenuptial agreements can protect all of the interests involved by defining economic rights and responsibilities and providing for the needs of the individuals as the relationship continues.
MG plans to create a dual - share structure that keeps voting shares, and therefore control, in the hands of its 2500 - plus farmers and offer economic rights without voting power to third party investors, as first revealed by the Financial Review's Street Talk column.
«Wet shares» have voting rights and are owned by Fonterra's farmer suppliers, while its «dry shares» allow non-farmer investors to own economic rights to Fonterra's earnings and dividends without voting power.
The statement read: «Our attention has been drawn to media reports regarding a court judgment alleged to have been entered against the Federal Government of Nigeria and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala in respect of an action by the Socio - Economic Rights Agenda (SERAP) pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.
Personality rights are not territorially limited economic rights, such as copyright, which are easily separable for the purposes of calculating damages.
That power was «no less dangerous when used to enforce this Court's views about personal rights than those about economic rights
Section 5 and 6 of the Copyright Act (Act 690) focuses on economic rights and moral rights of the authors respectively.
The NCAA denies athletes economic rights — getting paid, mainly, but also having agent representation — on the grounds that providing them would violate a mostly mythic «spirit of amateurism.»
Rawls was aware of the moral value of independent economic activity, but he thought that legislatures concerned to make sensible social policy were the proper places to work out the balance between economic rights and other competing interests.
In Egypt, violations in the field of social and economic rights abound.
Accepting his first IMF package in 1991, Mubarak had established a neoliberal order which flouted several international economic rights conventions on unionisation, child labour, gendered wage discrimination, and migrant labour.
As rights activist Hossam Bahgat recalled, by condemning the authorities» violation of political, civic, social, and economic rights together, Egyptians had «completely surpassed» the artificial sequencing of rights debate.
It is especially the denial or neglect of social and economic rights during the processing phase that causes suffering and deteriorates the already vulnerable position of the individual.
The senior advocate said the Socio Economic Rights and Accountability Project had approached a Federal High Court to compel the Office of the Accountant - General of the Federation to account for the recovered funds but that despite getting the court order, the OAGF refused to provide the information.
But socio - political groups, including the Socio - Economic Right Accountability Project and the Campaign for Democracy, criticised the EFCC for hiding the identities of the owners of the recently recovered funds in Lagos and Kaduna.
Speaking at a strategic dialogue roundtable organised by the Social Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Falana insisted that the Sukuk bond was legitimate.
The book includes five appendices: a snapshot of the socio - economic rights guaranteed by the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act and Chapter II of the Nigerian Constitution; a plethora of applicable national legislation that are not easily found, as well as international human rights and labour treaties to which Nigeria is a state party.
And every coastal nation has exclusive economic rights in the zone extending 200 miles off its shores, meaning that all the gas, oil, fish, and other resources are under its control.
This investigation drew comments from civil and economic rights organizations about the predatory lending problem plaguing the country.
The talks will also cover economic rights, and will «deepen our technical analysis of the social security provisions», Davis, the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, said in a letter this week to the House of Lords EU committee.
Indigenous communities can not enjoy their social and economic rights equally with non-indigenous people, including their rights over their land, if living conditions in communities are dangerous and their children are subject to abuse.
Canadian investments in Asia can, for example, support human rights through the protection of economic rights such as safe labour conditions, social rights such as healthcare, and cultural rights such as protection of local languages and customs.
There already are a number of studies that present evidence that gender differences in disaster death rates are directly linked to the unequal social and economic rights of women — and in the case of natural disasters, can be further aggravated — as is the case with a study last year done by the London School of Economics, which analyzed disaster data from 141 nations.
In this comprehensive and incisive book, Femi Falana SAN sets out to examine the legal treatment of socio - economic rights in Nigeria, and the broader context in which the rights are defined, understood, interpreted and implemented.
Yet, it has to be noted that the situation with the Liberty shares is a bit more complex because the shares being distributed are a different class (C vs. A) and have no voting rights (though they do have the same economic rights).
Under the proposed listing, non-farmer shareholders will own economic rights but have no voting power.
The court judgment followed the legal action entered against the Federal Government of Nigeria and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala by the Socio - Economic Rights Agenda (SERAP) pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.
In short, little is actually happening on the international seabed — in the Arctic or elsewhere — other than states using science to claim the limited economic rights that are reserved for them by international law.
Dr. Ayeh who is now a leading member of breakaway party, National Democratic Party (NDP), criticized government for denying Ghanaians their political and economic rights by excluding certain individuals...
1) Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation and share of associates» result (net of tax) 2) Earnings per share is calculated as profit attributable to owners of the parent divided by the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the year, as adjusted to reflect the economic rights of each class of share.
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