Sentences with phrase «equality act with»

Cuomo, in exchange for an endorsement from the left leaning Working Families Party, promised to help reunite the two Democratic factions in order to achieve passage of several progressive issues, including public campaign financing, a women's equality act with an abortion rights provision, and a measure to give college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, known as the Dream Act.

Not exact matches

It has got away for so long with the kind of lunatic word - games that allow death - by - torture to be presented as an act of love, and eternal torment in the flames of hell to be seen as a necessary act of justice, that we should perhaps not be surprised that it has also managed to dupe its followers into seeing the systematic suppression and silencing of women as an act of liberation and equality.

If the cost of addressing these kind of issues is to be wrongly perceived as having misunderstood, as acting in a way that is consistent with a hindrance to women (as in this instance by you) rather than what is actually happening — a combination of life experience and informed opinion acting in a way that is conducive to equality, dignity and empowerment for women then this is a price I am willing to pay for the sake of women's well being.

18, 20); and paradoxically the act of naming by which he claims authority over his wife is also a recognition of her essential equality with him.

«Parents could begin with a discussion of current events and the news, reading children's books about important historical figures who have championed social equalities, encouraging children to participate in small acts to conserve water and resources, and visits to urban and rural areas,» she says.

While Civil Rights in the USA means far more than racial equality only, it is common to use the term synonomously with racial equality because that was the driving force behind the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

A longtime gay activist, Will fought on the front lines of the AIDS epidemic with ACT - UP and continues fighting today for LGBT acceptance and full equality.

With just one week left in the New York State legislative session, press outlets are predicting that few big - ticket issues, such as public campaign financing, the women's equality agenda, medical marijuana or the Dream Act, will be resolved.

Stop playing politics with women's rights and pass the women's equality act this year.

A Democratic National Committee staffer, who is familiar with the process and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the language in the platform approved on Sunday not only backs marriage equality, but also rejects DOMA and has positive language with regard to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

«Over the past 25 years the number of women in full - time employment has increased by more than a third and there have been many steps towards gender equality in the workplace, with flexible working and the Equal Pay Act, however, there is still a long way to go.

How much he can convince Senate Republicans to let him leap left is important to watch, especially as they harbor resentment toward New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and note that some of their former colleagues who lept with Cuomo on marriage equality and the SAFE Act are no longer in office.

Debbonaire asked him what he thought was good about the last Labour government, and says that after some thought he came up with the Human Rights Act and the Equalities Act.

But Moya's real target was Cuomo, who the assemblyman said needs to «show true leadership and to bring Senator Dean Skelos back to the table to open up talks on the Dream Act, just as [the governor] has in the past with tough issues like marriage equality and the SAFE Act.

The day long maneuvering resulted in the unusual action of one of the co-leaders of the Senate offering a hostile amendment to try to force a vote on a section of the women's equality act dealing with abortion rights.

Most of the same groups who lobbied in the last legislative session for the women's equality act have joined the effort again for 2014, with one major exception.

«He has made this so personal in naming it the «Mario Cuomo Campaign,» I believe it puts this up there with marriage equality and guns,» said Kink, referring to what are perhaps Cuomo's two crowning legislative achievements, marriage equality and the SAFE Act.

The governor rehashed his first - term accomplishments and promised to push for a women's equality agenda (complete with abortion law changes), public campaign finance and the Dream Act, which extends tuition assistance ot undocumented immigrants.

Lancman, a lawyer who served Assembly District 25 for six years, has also passed a significant volume of legislation, including theLibel Terrorism Protection Act, which aims to protect journalists writing about terrorism abroad from being hit with defamation lawsuits, and a host of bills related to equality andsafety in the workplace.

Once the show began, the messages in support of women and equality didn't stop: Natalie Portman, while presenting best director with Ron Howard, noted how only men had been nominated (Lady Bird filmmaker Greta Gerwig was a high profile snub); presenters Jessica Chastain and Geena Davis, respectively, also made jokes about male acting winners giving their salary away to make up for the gender pay gap.

With the study on equality of opportunity, an outcome of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Coleman developed his «first draft» of those norms.

According to the parents» complaint, the district and the union have violated the children's «fundamental right to basic educational equality and opportunity» by failing to comply with a section of the California Education Code known as the Stull Act.

In her own act of resistance, Walker's The Jubilant Martyrs of Obsolescence and Ruin showcases the artist's signature satire and sardonic imagery to directly address the history of oppression and injustice experienced by Black Americans in the South with the persistence of racial and gender stereotypes and ongoing efforts to advance equality in America.

What sections of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act impose an obligation on employers (or anyone else) to ««promote» equality, diversity, and inclusion»?

Acting as pro bono counsel for Trevor Loke with respect to a judicial review of the Minister of Advanced Education's decision to consent to a law school at Trinity Western University on the basis that such decision violates his equality rights under the Charter.

(4) State organs and administrative authorities shall act in compliance with the principle of equality before the law in all their proceedings.

Four issues had been identified by the parties: (i) whether the Court of Appeal had correctly held that the 2009 and 2010 care plan reviews were to be read as including a reassessment of the claimant's community care needs; (ii) whether the authority's decision to provide pads interfered with the claimant's Art 8 rights and, if so, whether such an interference was justified and proportionate; (iii) whether the authority had been operating any relevant policy or practice for the purposes of s 21E (1) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA 1995) and, if so, whether that policy was justified as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, namely the equitable allocation of limited care resources; and (iv) whether the authority had failed to have due regard to the needs specified in s 49A of DDA 1995 (the general disability equality duty) when carrying out their functions in the instant case.

Meanwhile, Justice minister Dominic Raab has confirmed that the government will table an amendment before report stage requiring ministers presenting any Brexit - related primary or secondary legislation to first make a statement on whether and how it is consistent with the Equalities Act.

«The panel referred to a profound failure to act with impartiality and to respect equality before the law.»

The purpose of section 13 of the Act is to balance Canadians» rights to equality and freedom of expression with respect to hate messages, as protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

As the Constitutional Court has held in its acts more than once, this constitutional principle means the innate human right to be treated equally with others and it consolidates formal equality of all persons, it obliges one to legally assess the same facts in the same manner and prohibits any arbitrary assessment of the essentially the same facts in a varied manner, it does not allow discrimination of persons or granting them any privileges.

In concluding that the evidence in this case should be excluded due to the presence of racism, he cited the long - lasting systemic implications for the administration of justice if society did not see the justice system as acting fairly and in accordance with the equality guarantee in the Charter,

Lord Mance (with Lords Neuberger, Clarke, Wilson and Lady Hale) held that the principle of state immunity (as provided for in both customary international law and the State Immunity Act 1978) was based on the sovereign equality of states and international comity.

Governmental authority to act, or not, in response to poverty and homelessness must be exercised consistently with the Charter, whether through positive measures to ensure equality or to protect life and security, or through «negative» obligations of restraint, by refraining from actively interfering with such rights.

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA 1995) has had a major impact on employment law, with the received wisdom being that it was intended to go beyond ordinary notions of equality (the basis of the rest of discrimination law) and give greater rights to disabled employees, as a matter of social policy.

PPLA's comprehensive sexuality education curriculum centers on critical thinking, human rights, gender equality, and access to health care, and is aligned with the sexual health education requirements of the California Healthy Youth Act.

Indeed, one study looking at pornography in the US, Norway, and Japan found that Norway, which has the highest level of gender equality, had more images of equality in its pornography, in other words, women having just as much agency and pleasure in the sexual acts.6 Perhaps pornography that depicts women with natural bodies and shows them having real orgasms (which is what feminist porn aims to do) can give women a way to enjoy porn without having to feel like they need to perform or look a certain way.

It contrasts the meaning of equality within a human rights framework with the notion of equality used to justify certain amendments to the right to negotiate provisions of the Native Title Act.

In accordance with the functions set out in section 46C (1)(a) of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Cth), this report includes 5 recommendations - 3 in relation to Achieving health equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people s and 2 in relation to the new arrangement in Indigenous affairs.

Failure of the amended Native Title Act to incorporate the principles of equality: In order to restitute the principles of equality and non-discrimination in state legislation it would be necessary to amend the Commonwealth Native Title Act so as to make it consistent with the RDA.

House Bill 4691, known as the Michigan Shared Parenting Act, would change the law to state that children have a right to «substantially equal parenting time» in which courts would try to provide «balance and equality» in the number of overnight stays children have with each parent.

The Commission recommends that the Government take steps to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution; remove the discriminatory section 25 of the Constitution and replace it with a clause guaranteeing equality before the law; reform the Native Title Act to address measures that have been found to be racially discriminatory; [19] provide reparations to Indigenous communities for harm resulting from past child removal practices; and take measures to protect and promote Indigenous cultural and intellectual property, connection to traditional land through homelands and outstations, as well as the use of increasingly threatened languages, including through support for bilingual education programs.