Sentences with phrase «ensure racial equality»

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It criticises the «complete lack of transparency» around the Department for Education's free schools programme and the lack of robust processes to ensure that free schools are properly scrutinised and accountable on grounds of racial equality.

Actually, to the opposite, many regimes explicitly derive their legitimacy from being committed to maintaining a social system that ensures inequality, e.g. Apartheid South Africa, the Confederate State of America (racial inequality), and Soviet Russia (in this case, the ruling proletariat class ruling over all other classes; the Russian Revolution did NOT attempt to create a state with equality as many think).

In the 1940s,»50s and»60s, when race relations were considered poor, and legislation like the Race Relations Acts of 1965 and»68 were passed, one could see there was some logic in ensuring government adhered to the principle of racial equality it had legislated for.

Filmmaker and actress Whitney Cummings writes on her web page: «An inclusion rider is something actors put into their contracts to ensure gender and racial equality in hiring on movie sets.

This position is inconsistent with Article 2 (2) of ICERD which requires that where human rights are not enjoyed equally, then the provision of special measures are required to ensure equality is achieved between racial groups.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has recognised as aspects of the principle of equality the obligations of States parties to CERD to ensure that no decisions directly relating to the rights and interests of indigenous peoples are taken without their informed consent, as well as to recognise and protect the rights of indigenous peoples to own, develop, control and use their communal lands and territories and resources: General Recommendation on Indigenous Peoples, UN Doc CERD / C / 51 / Misc 13 / Rev 4 (1997) paras 4 - 5.

As noted above at para 32, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has recognised as aspects of the principle of equality the obligations of States to ensure that no decisions directly relating to the rights and interests of indigenous peoples are taken without their informed consent, as well as to recognise and protect the rights of indigenous peoples to own, develop, control and use their communal lands and territories and resources.

The first was to ensure that members of racial, religious or linguistic minorities should be placed in every respect on a footing of perfect equality with the other nationals of the State.