Sentences with phrase «for equality laws»

Digital and social media played a big role in organizing support for equality laws.

Not exact matches

Many instead believe strongly in corporate engagement, by urging CEOs and senior executives to meet with elected officials, to speak out and to give financial support to civil rights groups advocating for equality and nondiscrimination under the law.

Austin and Pittsburgh, both finalists for HQ2 and located in states without nondiscrimination laws, scored perfect 100s on the HRC's municipal equality index.

Despite the demonstrable negative consequences in states that have passed laws that undermine LGBTQ equality, the coming months will indicate whether the ascent of Donald Trump to the White House is emboldening religious conservatives to press for more such bills after a series of gains for gay and transgender people at the federal level under the Obama administration.

For instance, Chinese firms have to be aware of roles of trade unions and labour laws that differ from those in China; be respectful to the diversity and equality that are the reality of Canadian culture and society; and be environment friendly that reflects Canadians value.

Emancipation might have been delayed for decades if a minority of diehard idealists had not made such a fuss insisting on a philosophically consistent application of the ideals of liberty and equality under the law.

Either everyone is equal before the law or there is equality for no one.

Can you see why equality under the law and equal rights for everyone means throwing out the bias of religion, as none of them agree with the others on anything.

When it comes to equality or efficiency, which is to say, pie growing, the Yale Law students overwhelmingly opt for the latter.

I am arguing for equality under the law here, Mark.

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

Here's the confusion: Arkes proposes and defends the notion that natural law best accounts for our intuitions of equality and justice; Prof. Smolin responds by pointing out that people have believed evil things in the name of natural law.

She said: «I think this private member's bill follows a trend we've seen in America with the introduction of state legislation to undermine LGBT and other equality laws with an increase of so - called conscientious objection exemptions for public employees providing public services.»

DO maintain equality of treatment for different Christian religions within the law as a core element of the Theocratic state.

Though he has pledged his commitment to make Mozilla «a place of equality and welcome for all,» those calling for his resignation contend that Eich's support of the 2008 law disqualifies him for the position.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

And the religious denominational plurality along with strong middle class and later working class groups committed to atheism destroyed any possibility of return to Christendom, and the only option for national unity was to secularize the state with equality under law for all religious and secular thought and groups.

For example, the Law at times seems to set out as its standard a basic notion of equality.

He highlighted Britain's achievements as a «pluralist democracy which places great value on freedom of speech, freedom of political affiliation and respect for the rule of law, with a strong sense of the individual's rights and duties, and of the equality of all citizens before the law and noted that there was much in common here with Catholic social teaching.

You might have fun saying that the problem here is that «things didn't go my way», but my way is equality under the law for everyone regardless of race, creed, disability, etc..

«Before new sexual orientation laws, guaranteeing equality in goods and services for the gay community were introduced in April 2007, Archbishop Nichols said the legislation contradicted the faith's «moral values».

In its laws, Islam tries to establish a foundation for equality, brotherhood, and friendliness among men.

By accepting from Austin and Holmes an overly sharp distinction between law and morality, by largely abandoning the search for the common good, and by permitting individual liberty or equality to trump most other values, mainstream American law may have had a part in fostering a set of cultural conditions inhospitable to communities of memory and mutual aid.

25) is a ringing declaration for economic equality; but the Levitical law includes canny compromises on sale prices, on differentiation between urban and rural properties, and on clerical privileges.

Among them are life, liberty, security of person, freedom from slavery and from torture and inhumane treatment; equality before the law; the right to judicial remedies for wrongs; freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention; fair trials and due process of law, including the presumption of innocence; privacy; freedom of movement; equal rights in marriage; freedoms of speech, press, assembly and association; and free elections.

who attempt to enact your «beliefs» into law that stifles equality for certain individuals.

Since the Christian's ultimate loyalty is to God and not the state in its demand for obedience to the law, the Christian always tempers his loyalty with insistences on justice with love that calls for an equality and liberty that holds the state's necessary powers of coercion under restraint and accountability to God.

How about the fact that the Mormon Church went into partnership with the Catholic Church and encouraged... «strongly» their congregations to «vote» out any piece of legislation that creates equality under the law for gay's.

Whenever the concept of equality is used this usually pertains to the Lockean interpretation of «one rule for rich and poor» or to the Kantian interpretation of non-discrimination: the law should treat all citizens as equals.

The person — man or woman — who hungers for equality is already emptied and impersonal because a personality is made of what distinguishes it from others and not submitted to the absurd law of equality.

if hobby haters win that opens the door for every company in america to side - step almost any equality laws on the books.

The Consultation for Promoting British Values in School is a hastily thrown together set of amendments to the Independent School Standards (2013) which ensured all independent schools» activities and teaching be informed by the 2010 Equalities Act.The consultation proposes strengthening the Independent School Standards regulations and extending these to all schools (state and independent), emphasising that a school's «written policy, plans and schemes of work -LSB-... must] not undermine the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.»

The dominant feature of this organization was legal democratic action for the attainment of equality thus, all laws supporting segregation were declared unconstitutional.

Deborah A. Widiss, the associate law professor at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law I interviewed and whose paper is the basis of my article, says it just could be that when more same - sex couples are able to marry, they, too, might decide to specialize — and there goes our hoped - for equality modlaw professor at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law I interviewed and whose paper is the basis of my article, says it just could be that when more same - sex couples are able to marry, they, too, might decide to specialize — and there goes our hoped - for equality modLaw I interviewed and whose paper is the basis of my article, says it just could be that when more same - sex couples are able to marry, they, too, might decide to specialize — and there goes our hoped - for equality model.

Under the law, local authorities need to publish an overall scheme and action plan for promoting gender equality, covering all areas where gender equality issues are deemed to be relevant.

Under the law, bodies that commission maternity related services, like other public services, need to publish an overall scheme and action plan for promoting gender equality, covering all areas where gender equality issues are deemed to be relevant.

The right to breastfeed anywhere, anytime is protected, for instance, by equality legislation in the UK, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and by U.S. state laws.

Also, Aspiration 3 states it in a different way, «Africa shall have a universal culture of good governance, democratic values, gender equality, respect for human rights, justice and the rule of law».

The President of the European Humanist Federation (EHF), David Pollock, said: «The European Court of Human Rights is an essential bastion of equality and non-discrimination but has shown signs of being politically intimidated — for example in the case about the Italian law compelling schools to display crucifixes.

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «These changes represent a significant victory in ensuring Academies and Free Schools have to respect the shared citizenship that all British people enjoy, which includes liberty, equality, tolerance for other views, and respect for the rule of English law.

Thus, because of the name of the law, over time that has become another term for racial equality.

The new rules in this area state: The Academy Trust shall ensure that principles are promoted which support fundamental British values, including: respect for the basis on which the law is made and applied in England; respect for democracy and support for participation in the democratic processes; support for equality of opportunity for all; support and respect for the liberties of all within the law; and respect for and tolerance of different faiths and religious and other beliefs.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

The NDC according to him, is the political party with the most open, viable and democratic credentials to uphold the tenets of equality of the law and equality of opportunities for all its members.

Equality We want a society which is based on equality and respect for diversity with robust equality laws against irrelevant discrimination, not least in the context of the «religion or belief» and «sexual orientation» equality strands.

Witness the successful US civil rights movement (clearly for equality under the law & an end to segregation) compared to the ultimately unsuccessful 70's / 80's CND campaigners (against atomic weapons but no coherent or sensible pro-position on anything).

Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

Officials were already pitching the plan as a continuation of Cuomo's «progressive» agenda for New York, which the governor counts as including a sharp rise in the minimum wage, the marriage equality law and stronger gun control provisions known as the SAFE Act.

``...... As your Attorney General, I will fight for LGBT equality, I will use the Civil Rights Bureau to aggressively enforce discrimination laws, and I will use the office's power to force change.»

Suddenly, a lot of the equalities legislation that was guaranteed by European law could now be open for revision — «under cover» of Brexit if not directly as part of it.