Sentences with phrase «equality rights protections»
West Coast LEAF will continue to work towards the goal of ensuring that the law's equality rights protections translate into concrete improvements in the lives of all women and marginalized people, and to realizing the promise of human rights law.
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In that letter he wrote about «an urgent need to achieve real equality in every area: equal pay for equal work, protection for working mothers, fairness in career advancements, equality of spouses with regard to family rights.»
Trudeau explains why his government is pushing gender equality, indigenous rights, and labour protections in NAFTA talks
Catholicism has long stood fiercely against the protections and rights offered by secular modernity, including women's equality, the freedom of sexual identity, respect for children's autonomy and reproductive choice.
The NAACP's support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the fourteenth amendment of the United States constitution and equal protection of all people» said NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous, a strong backer of gay rights.
I believe in freedom, justice, equality, human rights, compassion, charity, environmental protection and democracy.
«freedom, justice, equality, human rights, compassion, charity, environmental protection and democracy.»
As I conclude, it has become clear that the arguments invoked in the name of equality, love, protection, and of the right to a child do not stand up and can not, by themselves, justify a law.
In Canada, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives some protection under sex equality.
Women deserve equal rights including wage equality, stronger domestic violence protections, freedom of choice and an end to sexual assault on our campuses.»
Among the many right - wing luminaries scheduled to speak at this year's CPAC are: Sam Brownback, the pig farmer turned governor of Kansas who recently stripped LGBT state workers of employment non-discrimination protections, Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon turned professional Obamacare basher who compares marriage equality advocates to supporters of bestiality and pedophiles, and half - term Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin who is well, Sarah Palin.
The August 28 letter noted Cabrera's opposition to marriage equality and said that he «has continued to express discriminatory and regressive views on marriage, protections for the transgender community, and women's rights.»
1118 - FCO - For first time in 64 year history the Commonwealth will have a formal Charter setting out core values: democracy; human rights; peace and security; tolerance, respect and understanding; freedom of expression; separation of powers; rule of law; good governance; sustainable development; environmental protection; access to health, education, food and shelter; gender equality; and the importance of young people and civil society.
«This legislation was supposed to harmonise and standardise all equality laws, so that everyone has the same rights and protection,» he said.
As to the «protection of the rights and freedoms of others», the Government referred to the need to ensure «respect for the minimum set of values of an open democratic society», listing three values in that connection: respect for gender equality, respect for human dignity and respect for the minimum requirements of life in society (or of «living together»).
In the spring of 2013, Cuomo issued a women's equality agenda that included abortion rights protections that stood little chance of passing the new GOP - led senate.
Women deserve equal rights including wage equality, stronger domestic violence protections, freedom of choice and an end to sexual assault on our campuses,» she added.
«There are a series of issues where I am just fundamentally out of line with the current Republican Party in California — reasonable environmental protection, equal rights and marriage equality, immigration,» he said.
As the EU (Withdrawal) Bill progresses through Parliament, we wish to support MPs to ensure equality and human rights protections are maintained, including the implications of the devolved context.
Plaintiffs» equal protection claims assert that the Challenged Statutes violate their fundamental rights to equality of education by adversely affecting the quality of the education they are afforded by the state.»
This week, The Wall Street Journal published an op - ed by Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. and Joshua S. Lipshutz, two lead members of the legal team behind Vergara v. California and the new federal education equality lawsuit, Martinez v. Malloy, in which the attorneys make the case for a constitutional right to education and federal legal protections for disadvantaged students.
Based on your industry employee notices can also provide information on job safety and health protection, describe the rights of migrant and seasonal workers, and provide information on equality of employment.
In the past year, our culture has dealt with continuous turmoil, mass shootings, increasingly disturbing accounts of gross sexual misconduct, threats to the rights of immigrants, reproductive rights, transgender rights, threats against our rights to health care, against gender and racial equality, against the protection of our environment, of internet neutrality, as well as attacks against Planned Parenthood, the EPA, the NEA and global organizations such as UNESCO.
Submissions were accepted from artists of all ages and genders, and the diversity of their backgrounds presented a powerful collage of the span of issues that President Trump has threatened — from reproductive rights, gender and racial equality, to immigration, environmental protection, and gun control.
Generally speaking the left presumes we're all equal and the great divider is education, whereas the right presumes we're equal only to the extent of legal protection and we choose to believe or not (the notion of equality as viewed by the left and right isn't always the same thing.)
The CJEU separately analyzed three different elements of the principle of effective judicial protection: right of access to a tribunal and principles of nemo iudex in sua causa (no one can be a judge in his own cause) and equality of arms.
«There's no reason to believe the court's willingness to protect religious beliefs has diminished» in light of expanded protection of equality rights, Staley also said.
In a few short paragraphs Bill C - 279 would strengthen equality rights and provide greater protection from hateful attacks for transgender individuals.
This is the right to equality and protection against discrimination in a free and democratic society.
The Barreau made a point of reaffirming the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Charter, in particular, the rights to equality and protection against discrimination.
On April 17, 1982, Canada enshrined those protections in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, declaring that equality under the law is fundamental to the quality of life of its citizens.
In its submission to the Court, West Coast LEAF argued that limiting the scope of human rights protections against discriminatory harassment — as the BC Court of Appeal did — turns back the clock on 30 years of workplace equality rights.
At the same time, the BFOQ requirement found in s. 24 (1)(a) upholds the important Charter protection for equality rights.
In the context of such a scheme in Germany which had been negotiated by the social partners as an important element of an overall scheme to eradicate an old age - based payment scheme which was about to become illegal, they held that the protection of the established rights of one category of persons can in general justify a measure restrictive of equality if that restriction does not go beyond what is necessary for that protection.
«The only effect of a positive vote will be to make same - sex couples, and their families, unequal to everyone else; this is discrimination in its rawest form... There is no Massachusetts precedent discussing, or deciding, whether the initiative procedure may be used to add a constitutional provision that purposefully discriminates against an oppressed and disfavored minority of our citizens in direct contravention of theprinciples of liberty and equality protection by Art. 1 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.»
In fulfilling this equality mandate, the CCD's position here is that human rights protections must be accessible to persons with disabilities.
Carrying more legal weight as a constitutional document than its predecessor, the Charter provides the guaranteed protection of important rights such as freedom of conscience, religion, expression, and association; the democratic right to vote; mobility rights to enter and leave Canada as well as reside anywhere within Canada; legal rights in criminal matters; equality rights against discrimination; and language rights.
His particular areas of expertise are education, equality and discrimination, human rights, mental capacity, community care and information / data protection.
I note that the drafters of the Charter were clearly aware of this ambiguity, as they certainly didn't impose on governments the general obligation to treat citizens equally in drafting section 15 (1)-- they made a point of defining equality as equality before and under the law, including the right to equal protection and benefit of the law.
But that reputation is now under threat, due to the negative tone of debate from some politicians and many parts of the media around the Human Rights Act, and the potential risk to people's equality and human rights protections when the UK leaves the European Rights Act, and the potential risk to people's equality and human rights protections when the UK leaves the European rights protections when the UK leaves the European Union.
Dominic Ruck Keene is developing a varied practice in all areas of Chambers» work, in particular inquests, public law and human rights, clinical negligence, personal injury and child abuse compensation, cyber and data protection, as well as employment and equality.
In McGill, supra note 129, the Supreme Court of Canada stated at para. 20, «[s] ince the right to equality is a fundamental right, the parties to a collective agreement can not agree to a level of protection that is lower than the one to which employees are entitled under human rights legislation...»
She has a strong interest in social justice and constitutional law, including the protection of freedom of religion and equality rights.
(1) Everyone has the right to equality before the law and to equal protection of the law without discrimination because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age or sex.
Chemerinsky argued that taking another important civil rights case soon after Brown would have affirmed the decision's force that the Equal Protection clause was not about formal equality, but about anti-subordination.
Does s. 1 permit some provinces to reasonably restrict religious freedom in pursuit of protection of equality rights, while others restrict equality to protect religious freedom?
Our lawsuit claims that the new law violates sections 6 (mobility rights), 7 (protection of life, liberty and security of the person), 11 (h) and (i)(procedural protections for individuals who have been charged with an offence), 12 (protection from cruel and unusual treatment or punishment) and 15 (equality rights) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and are not justifiable in a free and democratic sorights), 7 (protection of life, liberty and security of the person), 11 (h) and (i)(procedural protections for individuals who have been charged with an offence), 12 (protection from cruel and unusual treatment or punishment) and 15 (equality rights) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and are not justifiable in a free and democratic sorights) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and are not justifiable in a free and democratic soRights and Freedoms, and are not justifiable in a free and democratic society.
Civil partners have the same rights and obligations as opposite - sex married couples in an extensive range of areas including tax, inheritance, next of kin, social welfare, immigration and pensions, and have the same employment and equality protection as married couples.
Although civil partnership does offer some rights and protections, it is not equality and it does not extend all the same rights to same sex couples as marriage would, including rights...
Consequently, the application of the substantive equality principle to protection of Indigenous rights to property in the present will require that the history of past discrimination be taken into account.