Sentences with phrase «equal enjoyment of»

It is the Commission's view that the terms and conditions of the measure are reasonable, able to be complied with and do not have a negative impact upon the equal enjoyment of rights in public life by people of a particular race - and therefore are not racially discriminatory.

This would be the case where in instances of underlying disadvantage, temporary affirmative action or special measures are allowed in order to hasten equal enjoyment of rights for all racial groups.

States should ensure that traditional, historical, religious or cultural attitudes are not used to justify violations of women's right to equality before the law and to equal enjoyment of all Covenant rights.

[69] Australian law recognises women's right to freedom from violence and to equal enjoyment of positive human rights such as the right to education and to seek employment.

As indicated, the focus of the RDA is on laws which differentiate on the basis of race in order to limit the equal enjoyment of rights.

[67] As I stated in my report last year, «in calling for a move away from welfare dependency to economic empowerment there is little acknowledgement that integral to this shift is the empowerment of Indigenous Australians through the full recognition and equal enjoyment of their human rights».

States Parties shall, when the circumstances so warrant, take, in the social, economic, cultural and other fields, special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial groups or individuals belonging to them, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Thus, even though native title is a form of title that only Indigenous people can enjoy, legislation that ensures the equal enjoyment of this property right by Indigenous people is not discriminatory.

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)[51] recognises that different treatment designed to ensure the equal enjoyment of rights is not discriminatory.

The term «special measures» is generally understood to apply to positive measures taken to redress the disadvantage, and secure the «full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms», of a particular racial group.

10 Section 10 of the RDA is concerned with the equal enjoyment of human rights, not simply the enjoyment of legal rights.

The systemic and grossly disproportionate rate of disadvantage faced by Indigenous people requires that Australia take special measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of Indigenous people, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Australia should take special measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of Indigenous people for the purpose of guaranteeing them the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

[24] Often, to ensure equal enjoyment of culture as specified in human rights standards, additional measures are necessary for the members of minority and Indigenous groups.

Yet it is still open to the Government to lay a different foundation for present and future generations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people based on the equal enjoyment of rights to land.

Only recently, this Court had occasion to declare that a state law which denied equal enjoyment of property rights to a designated class of citizens of specified race and ancestry was not a legitimate exercise of the state's police power, but violated the guaranty of the equal protection of the laws.

-- No individual shall be discriminated against on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of any place of public accommodation by any person who owns, leases (or leases to), or operates a place of public accommodation.

(a) All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.

The Court said that «public school students are entitled to equal enjoyment of the right to education, and a system of school financing that relied on local property tax revenues without regard to disparities in town wealth and that lacked significant equalizing state support was unconstitutional.

§ 489.21 and § 489 - 22 provide that it is a discriminatory practice to deny, or attempt to deny, the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodation of a place of public accommodations to a woman because she is breastfeeding a child.

Not exact matches

There was first the great revolt of Thomas Münzer, which aimed to establish a truly Christian state where all would be equal; for, Münzer declared, the children of God are entitled to happiness in this world and to full enjoyment of all the goods of Nature which God gives to man; and they are kept from enjoying what is rightfully theirs by the rich and powerful who have cornered the goods of the world.

I kind of assumed that exposing my children early on to this diversity would equal a willingness to try different foods, and hopefully more enjoyment of those foods.

Art. 3: The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to ensure the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all civil and political rights set forth in the present Covenant.Art.

Summary: Nom Nom Galaxy's recipe for enjoyment mixed equal parts of exploration, resource gathering, combat, and management.

I actually waffled between the two models; I didn't disagree with anyone else's comments, but found I could enjoy the extra bass of the T20RP mk3 and the extra sense of space of the T50RP mk3, just as one might find equal enjoyment in chocolate and vanilla or Madonna and Stravinsky.

Hold on a minute... Not all jobs are equal in terms of flexibility and enjoyment of work.

This is consistent with the definition of racial discrimination in Article 1 of the Convention referring to a distinction on the basis of race «which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights.»

Under section 46C of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (HREOCA) the Commission, through the Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, is required to report on, and generally to promote, «the enjoyment and exercise of human rights by Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders».

He said the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples noted: «Indigenous Peoples right to access, all social and health services and that Indigenous Peoples have an equal right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.»

various of the measures do not represent a reasonable and proportionate means of addressing child abuse and violence occurring in some Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, but instead contravene the rights of indigenous people in the Northern Territory to culture, history, language, customs and way of life, including the right to own and control their lands and resources, and are contrary to the equal enjoyment or exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

In accordance with my reporting obligation under section 46C (1)(a) of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Cth), I have chosen to recommend actions that should be taken to improve the level of enjoyment of human rights by Indigenous Australians.

«measures taken for the sole purpose of securing adequate advancement of certain racial or ethnic groups or individuals requiring such protection as may be necessary in order to ensure equal enjoyment or exercise of human rights and fundamental freedom, provided that such measures do not lead to the maintenance of separate rights for different racial groups and that they shall not be continued after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved».

In particular, States have an obligation in article 5 of ICERD to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination and to guarantee the right of everyone to equality before the law, including in the enjoyment of the right to equal treatment before the tribunals and all other organs administering justice, [17] the right to freedom of religion [18], and the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

Indigenous peoples have a right to the equal exercise and enjoyment of their human rights, including water.

(a) the guarantees of equality before the law and racial non-discrimination [34] in article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights («ICCPR») and articles 2 and 5 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination («CERD»), in particular the obligation in article 5 of CERD to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination and to guarantee the right of everyone to equality before the law, including in the enjoyment of (a) the right to equal treatment before the tribunals and all other organs administering justice, (d)(v) the right to own property alone as well as in association with others [35], and (d)(vii) the right to freedom of religion [36];

Finally, respect for human rights obligations, especially the right of indigenous communities «to practice and revitalise their cultural traditions and customs» [74] and to equality before the law, including in the enjoyment of the right to equal treatment before the tribunals and all other organs administering justice [75], calls for the development of principles which address the unique evidentiary issues involved in native title litigation, including the reality of claims based substantially upon orally - transmitted traditions, the lack of written records of indigenous laws and customs, the «unsceptical» receipt of uncorroborated historical evidence incapable of being tested under cross-examination, and the epistemological, ideological and cultural limitations of historical assessments of traditional laws and customs by non-indigenous commentators.

In light of recent developments in land rights during the reporting period, I have also examined the enjoyment and exercise of human rights by Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islander persons in accordance with section 46 (1)(a) of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986.

That it may well have the consequence, if women are not protected, of maintaining them in subordinate roles and preventing them from the equal enjoyment and exercise of their positive human rights and freedoms.

Such violence deprives women of the equal enjoyment and exercise of their positive human rights and freedoms.

Special measures taken for the sole purpose of securing adequate advancement of certain racial or ethnic groups or individuals requiring such protection as may be necessary in order to ensure such groups or individuals equal enjoyment or exercise of human rights or fundamental freedoms shall not be deemed racial discrimination, provided, however, that such measures do not, as a consequence, lead to the maintenance of separate rights for different racial groups and that they shall not be continued after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved.

In other words, there is no basis for establishing whether or not the enjoyment of rights by Indigenous people - which currently is clearly not equal or non-discriminatory - is being progressively realized.

Articles 1 (1): A distinction based on race which has the purpose of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise of rights on an equal footing;

ICERD article 5 (c) emphasises the need for countries to «guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of... Political rights, in particular the right... to take part in the Government as well as in the conduct of public affairs at any level and to have equal access to public service».

The Convention specifies in Article 1.4 that «special measures» taken for the sole purpose of securing adequate advancement of certain racial or ethnic groups or individuals «requiring such protection as may be necessary in order to ensure such groups or individuals equal enjoyment or exercise of human rights» shall not be deemed racial discrimination.

The rights which persons belonging to minorities enjoy under Article 27 of the Covenant in respect of their language, culture and religion do not authorise any State, group or person to violate the right to the equal enjoyment by women of any Covenant rights, including the right to equal protection of the law.

In accordance with Section 46C (1)(a) of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986, I have also used this opportunity to examine the enjoyment and exercise of human rights by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in light of other changes to policy and legislation, made between 1 July 2006 and 30 June 2007, and that affect land and waters.