Sentences with phrase «ethnic issues in»

NACAC urges agencies to undertake adequate training for adoption workers to enhance their knowledge of identity, cultural, and ethnic issues in working with African American, Latino, Aboriginal, and Native American children and families.

Because it defines missionary activities as religious practices to spread a faith beyond its members, «if that is interpreted as the Moscow Patriarchate is likely to, it will mean the Orthodox Church can go after ethnic Russians but that no other church will be allowed to,» according to Frank Goble, an expert on religious and ethnic issues in the region.

Not exact matches

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday issued a statement saying the U.S. government «in no way condones such acts of disrespect against the religion of Islam, and is deeply concerned about deliberate attempts to offend members of religious or ethnic groups.»

* Note: I acknowledge there are many other racial and ethnic issues to be addressed by the Church regarding ethnic groups living in the U.S.. However, I am primarily speaking to the issue I know and live while trying to respect the fact that only so many things can be discussed in one blog post.

Most of us are more immediately involved in issues of gender, ethnic pluralism, and justice than in global environmental questions.

In this edited volume, McClosky has included a vast number of case studies written by teachers of their experiences using drama, simulation techniques, filmmaking, literature related to social values and ethnic issues, and so forth.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul responded to those protests by issuing a statement rejecting «acts of disrespect against the religion of Islam» and adding that «Americans from all religious and ethnic backgrounds reject the offensive initiative by this small group in Florida.»

In a situation of social pressure due to economic shortages and unemployment, there may be the tendency for social forces to raise issues of religion and target as in India against the Muslims and in Indonesia this year against the ethnic Chinese, many of whom were Christians and considered allied to the Suharto establishmenIn a situation of social pressure due to economic shortages and unemployment, there may be the tendency for social forces to raise issues of religion and target as in India against the Muslims and in Indonesia this year against the ethnic Chinese, many of whom were Christians and considered allied to the Suharto establishmenin India against the Muslims and in Indonesia this year against the ethnic Chinese, many of whom were Christians and considered allied to the Suharto establishmenin Indonesia this year against the ethnic Chinese, many of whom were Christians and considered allied to the Suharto establishment.

The encyclical issued at the conclusion of the Council states, «The Orthodox Church is particularly concerned about the situation facing Christians, and other persecuted ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East.

In this case, Trump has made the ethnic identity of the judge an issue, saying that Curiel can't be trusted to oversee the suit in an impartial fashioIn this case, Trump has made the ethnic identity of the judge an issue, saying that Curiel can't be trusted to oversee the suit in an impartial fashioin an impartial fashion.

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The last link addressed the issue best, I thought: «The increase in risk of severe maternal morbidities in non-white women seems to be independent of differences in age, socioeconomic and smoking status, body mass index, and parity between ethnic groups.»

«The EU's advice is totally in agreement with our public position on the same issue, to the effect that the Buhari administration must refrain from massive deployment of State violence and use of dark side of the laws of the land as well as levying of political, economic, social, ethnic and cultural wars against members of the Nigeria's Igbo and other Southern nationalities.

My interest in this whole issue comes from the fact that if our law courts especially the highest court in Ghana, Supreme Court that is supposed to be final place in the country to deliver justice to all manner of persons regardless of one's political affiliation, religious beliefs, ethnic background etc in a just and fair manner is now seen to be turning into a place where citizens of Ghana who may belong to certain political affiliations do not feel confident or have trust in their handling of critical national issues in view of some of these «partisan» pronouncements on the part of some justices, then where would we be heading towards as a country?

This issue has exposed a new fissure in the party between its socially - conservative working - class supporters in the North and the Midlands, and its supporters in metropolitan areas, who are more likely to be liberal, young or from ethnic minorities.

While it might be crass, (and reduce all us voters to mindless drones incapable of formulating an opinion based on issues) if we look at this race through the assumption that people tend to vote along ethnic lines, then the largest voting bloc in Queens i.e.the Rockaways and Jamaica will vote for City Councilman Leroy Comrie.

«Taking all other issues raised in the Kaduna Declaration over the past few months, vis a vis the effort by various government and non-governmental bodies to engage us in dialogue, we submit that there is the need to look at the following issues holistically as safeguards against future ethnic tensions:

To better understand the complex issues of prejudice, truth and age - old hostility, I got in touch with Mike Doherty, spokesperson for the Traveller Movement, which represents ethnic traveller groups.

«Let me remind you of the precarious security situations in your area of responsibility, these are issues of communal, ethnic and farmers - herdsmen clashes as well as the Agatu crisis.

Following the highlights above, most powers are concentrated in one man at the Centre and this can not be suitable in a multi ethnic society like Nigeria where there are issues of marginalization, resource control, power sharing issues, revenue allocation, agitation for secession etc..

The presence of a northern woman in the cabinet will not be the silver bullet to the issue of Tory unpopularity with urban voters and women, just as Sajid Javid's appointment has not made the Tories more appealing to ethnic minorities.

General Agwai in his remarks stated that peacekeeping was gradually becoming an intra-country issue with the military at the Centre stage following internal conflicts such as ethnic, religious and other crises.

I believe that the rejection of Quinn for valid, political issues such as third terms and her legislative record shows a growing maturity in our communities — we rejected the old «ethnic appeal» and instead of voting on a single - issue or identity we voted for the candidate who best represents a progressive platform.

She considers issues of justice and accessibility, because, as she wrote in the American Journal of Bioethics, while «cancer and infertility are conditions that afflict all women equally and traverse class, race and ethnic lines, social and economic distinctions generally determine health care access.»

«The fact that women are capable of contributing to the nation's scientific and engineering enterprise but are impeded in doing so because of gender and racial / ethnic bias and outmoded «rules» governing academic success is deeply troubling and embarrassing,» wrote the authors of a 2007 report on women in academic science and engineering issued by the National Academies [7].

For example, they had to monitor such issues as racial, gender, socioeconomic, and ethnic biases in the text and photographs, plus lab safety concerns.

SFRL also pursued projects exploring ethnic minority perspectives on values and ethics in science and technology as well as on emerging ethical issues for scientists and engineers in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

There is, of course, much more to say about these issues, both in the United States and in Europe, where long - settled ethnic minorities may face additional barriers simply because they have been in the system longer.

Say «equal opportunities», and most people will have in mind issues related to women and ethnic minorities in the workplace.

Contaminants affect the ability of tribes to live and raise children in their traditional ways, said Elizabeth Hoover, an assistant professor of ethnic and American studies at Brown University who has worked with the Anishinaabe and other tribes on environmental justice issues.

In any case the current Mosaic programme has put the issue of ethnic minorities at the top of the universities» agendas.

Some topics covered in the courses include: theoretical frameworks for understanding the concepts of race and ethnicity; issues affecting recruitment and retention; issues associated with international, cross-cultural research; practical skills for securing informed consent and working with interpreters; and analysis of justice questions relating to the history of the treatment of racial and ethnic minority research subjects.

According to a study conducted by sociologists at the University of Rovira i Virgili (Spain), there is a feminine way as well as a masculine way to behave on the Internet: males tend to directly allude to ethnic and cultural issues whereas females are less obvious in doing so.

A recent joint statement issued by the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association concluded that further research into racial and ethnic differences and improved cardiovascular risk - prediction methods in people with type 1 diabetes is needed.

The reason this can be an issue is on account of every race or ethnic gathering manages day by day life in an unexpected way; knowing and bargaining on these distinctions can make the relationship more grounded as opposed to shredding it.

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masqueradIn Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masqueradin Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masqueradin so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

The MCU's first black - superhero film is also tightly focused in how it tackles ethnic and gender issues, crushes racial stereotypes and celebrates women in a genre often criticized for exclusionism.

Survey respondents from various ethnic groups differ in what they think are the most pressing issues in their lives.

New America Media, a nationwide network of over 700 ethnic - media organizations, received funding in 2006 from several foundations, as well as from the University of California's Office of the President, to conduct a survey of young people in California to better understand what young adults ages 16 - 22 feel are the primary issues impacting their lives.

A lesson PPT with starter resource to engage students in the very topical issue of ethnic cleansing in Burma.

In addition to this reflection, it is crucial that our institution actively recruits faculty and supports curricula that directly address issues of race, urban inequality, ethnic studies, and social justice.

To understand the issue, bear in mind that because many of the students were very young, their ethnic backgrounds were ascertained from information provided in questionnaires filled out by the adults who accompanied them to the testing sessions.

These gains, however, have not included a significant closing of the gaps between racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups, a fact that represents a serious issue in education today.

The Obama administration has issued new priorities for its charter - school grant program, among them support for schools that «promote diversity in their student bodies, including racial and ethnic diversity, or avoid racial isolation.»

So what role is there for religiously trained people — chaplains — to be endorsed by the federal government as the only personnel that they will fund to provide advice and care to children from diverse cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds in need — to young people struggling with issues of sexual orientation and identity, with bullying or family violence, death and trauma?

Anyway, therefore the U.S. did not being up the issue of human rights at all ---- even Iranian assurances to release innocent political, religious and ethnic minority prisoners — in order not to disrupt any attempts to let Iran go nuclear.

The situation is being taken as a negative issue for some Dutch politicians, who would like to accentuate the «dangers and threats» of the Islam in Europe and will go to the limit in order to antagonize and intentionally offend a specific ethnic group.

Ethnic - racial identity exploration is a particularly salient part of that process — especially in the United States, where issues of race can dominate news cycles and pervade our daily lives.

They are called on to promote equal educational opportunities for children in identified racial and ethnic groups, to monitor their development and academic achievement, and to address the unique challenges and opportunities faced by school board members working with issues concerning these students and their families.

Its mission is to create a new generation of research in social science and law on the critical issues of civil rights and equal opportunity for racial and ethnic groups in the United States.