Sentences with phrase «ensuring equality of treatment»

«The available record raises questions about Judge Roberts's view of the role of federal courts in ensuring equality of treatment for women and protecting women's rights.

The NTER in its original application was not subject to the RDA — the federal legislation designed to ensure equality of treatment of all people regardless of their race.

Not exact matches

While the formal equality plus special measures approach to equality demonstrated in Gerhardy v Brown can be seen to reflect a notion of equality which seeks to bring Aboriginal people up to the same level as and assimilate with non-Indigenous people, it at least ensures that invidious differential treatment is outlawed.

That is, society needs to ensure «substantive equality» (where all groups have equal opportunity to enjoy human rights) rather than just «formal equality» (where equal treatment of all can result in some groups having less opportunity because of relevant differences).

Our effective participation in decision making that effects us has been confirmed as essential to ensuring non-discriminatory treatment and equality before the law, and recognises the cultural distinctiveness and diversity of Indigenous peoples.