Sentences with phrase «for victim status»

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«When the question was raised about Haitians, for example — we have a group that have temporary protected status in the United States because they were the victims of crises and disasters and political upheaval.

It is important to distinguish here between the socio - economic consequences of the claims that are advanced on the basis of the victim status of blacks (such as the pressure for racially preferential treatment) and their symbolic, ideological role.

Blacks think we must cling to victim status because it provides the only secure basis upon which to press for attention from the rest of the polity to the problems of our most disadvantaged fellows.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

It aims to amend the Modern Slavery Act 2015 to provide assistance for a recovery period of 45 days and for a further period of twelve months following confirmation of their status as a victim of modern slavery.

Why don't we give Tutsis, Cambodians, Bosniak Muslims or any other victim of numerous genocides the same status for retributive justice accorded to Nazi holocaust victims, (which of course includes Jews, Romany, gays, etc).

In the case of Russians, it's particularly galling when they play the victim in their former colonies, claiming it's unfair for them to be expected to learn the local language, while demanding that the Russian language be given official language status.

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

The agency's Healthy Relationship Training Academy sponsors workshops on dating violence for adolescents and young adults, Palacio said, while the city's Family Justice Centers offer free and confidential legal and social services victims of domestic violence, elder abuse and sex trafficking, regardless of immigration status.

County Executive Bellone also introduced sweeping changes to Suffolk County's Human Rights Law which now will include a protective employment status for domestic violence victims.

For example, 28 percent of US - born Latinos said they are less likely to contact police officers if they have been the victim of a crime because they fear that police officers will use this interaction as an opportunity to inquire into their immigration status or that of people they know.

Topics included his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statement that he is not planning to approve a specific amount of pre-K funding set forth in the state senate proposed budget, how confident he is of pre-K funding, the status of his administration's review of the city's Sandy relief programs, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statements on mayoral control of the city school system and charter schools, the current status of site clearing and the investigation into the cause of the East Harlem building explosion, whether New Yorkers should be concerned about gas leaks, his reaction to a tweet yesterday by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito critical of Governor Cuomo's reaction to the East Harlem building explosion, how the church services he attended this morning for victims affected him personally and the relief efforts being led by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Mayor's Fund for NYC.

Moderators asked the candidates several questions, including how they would use their existing status and influence to mobilize assistance for Sandy victims in various communities, including the Rockaways, over the next three months.

To find out more about how the harassment came to light and what could be changed going forward to improve how these cases are handled, Clery spoke with «Joan Schmelz, chair of the American Astronomical Society's... Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy for 6 years until she finished her second term in August, [who] played a key role in identifying victims of Marcy's activities and letting them know they were not alone.»

Duesberg sometimes seems to relish his status as an outsider, portraying himself as a victim of groupthink who has been persecuted for daring to question the status quo.

What lifts it above movie - of - the - week status is Lenny Abrahamson's sensitive direction, eliciting powerful performances from Brie Larson as a kidnapping victim who's been held in a garden shed for seven years and Jacob Tremblay as her 5 - year - old son, whose young mind can't even conceive of a world outside «Room.»

But in fact, by suppressing the student's natural tendency to make — and to want to make — moral judgments; by relentlessly denigrating the student's core western cultural heritage; and by pandering to the supposed victim status of some cultures in relation to others, this ideology is a recipe for further alienating a generation already too comfortable with a fashionable distrust of authority.

The 17 - year - old Hogg, a survivor of the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., is the new face of the anti-gun movement, having achieved overnight victim status, reserved, apparently, only for those on the left, which supposedly insulates him from criticism.

I realized just how much the women of the South (and North too probably) suffered in this conflict and how important they were in trying to keep things running while the men were gone - they had no status, no protection and some were victims - I think in many ways it was as difficult a time for women as for the men who fought - for those men who didn't go to war and took advantage, this book just added to what I already had read before.

I was a victim of IDT last year, I filed in Jan 2014 last year and didn't receive my refund until Apr 20th 2014... This year I had to get a Ip Pin to file my taxes, the IRS said that they sent me a ip pin in the mail, but I never did receive it, so I had to get a replacement pin, I called the IRS hotline to see what the status of my refund was and they said that it was looked at on Feb 5th, so to count 6 - 8 weeks after that, Which means I have to wait another 2 weeks, I am getting so frustrated... If I am getting my refund deposited in the same bank account as last year, why is it taking so long for them to give me my money?

For purposes of the means test, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code defines current monthly income as including: «any amount paid by any entity other than the debtor (or in a joint case the debtor and the debtor's spouse), on a regular basis for the household expenses of the debtor or the debtor's dependents (and in a joint case the debtor's spouse if not otherwise a dependent)...» Benefits received under the Social Security Act, payments to victims of war crimes or crimes against humanity on account of their status as victims of such crimes, and payments to victims of international terrorism or domestic terrorism on account of their status as victims of such terrorism are excluded from the means teFor purposes of the means test, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code defines current monthly income as including: «any amount paid by any entity other than the debtor (or in a joint case the debtor and the debtor's spouse), on a regular basis for the household expenses of the debtor or the debtor's dependents (and in a joint case the debtor's spouse if not otherwise a dependent)...» Benefits received under the Social Security Act, payments to victims of war crimes or crimes against humanity on account of their status as victims of such crimes, and payments to victims of international terrorism or domestic terrorism on account of their status as victims of such terrorism are excluded from the means tefor the household expenses of the debtor or the debtor's dependents (and in a joint case the debtor's spouse if not otherwise a dependent)...» Benefits received under the Social Security Act, payments to victims of war crimes or crimes against humanity on account of their status as victims of such crimes, and payments to victims of international terrorism or domestic terrorism on account of their status as victims of such terrorism are excluded from the means test.

However, there is an exception for taxpayers who are victims of domestic violence and spousal abandonment; they can claim the relief from the Married Filing Jointly filing status requirement for no more than three consecutive years).

For a community to effectively address interpersonal violence, it must have tools which allow it to focus on the conduct of the abusers and not be distracted by the social status of the victims.

We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed (religion), color, sex (including gender expression), national origin, sexual orientation, military status, age, disability, marital status or domestic violence victim status.

As a veteran journalist for several Washington, D.C. newspapers, I've interviewed more than 100 victims (by actual count) of ethically - challenged climate change believers protecting their income, in - group status, or warped personality maintenance innards who routinely attack dissenters with the same error - ridden stock accusations without the slightest idea what the dissenter actually did or said.

If, however, you were convicted, and the Court found that you knew that the victim hadn't died at the time of trial, but you did not raise the fact that the victim wasn't dead, it isn't clear if you could have the original conviction vacated because it was a fair trial and you knew evidence sufficient to get yourself acquitted (which you may have refrained from presenting to avoid conviction on a lesser charge like kidnapping or aggravated assault), and the status of an «actual innocence» grounds for vacating a conviction after trial is hotly disputed, conservatives like the late Justice Scalia generally say «no», liberals generally say «yes», moderates like to say «yes» but make it almost impossible to establish except in rare cases like one where a live person walks in when there was a murder conviction for killing that actually living person.

For example, Terence Corcoran questions why creditors are entitled to priority status over pensioners and maintains that «the legal and financial professionals who work the lucrative insolvency field in Canada have a list of reasons to put banks and other lenders ahead of employees and pensioners, none of which deserve the reverence and support they've received from Ottawa» («Pensioners victims of inaction in Ottawa», National Post, February 5, 2013, here).

These laws do not recognize any minority status of the victim, but rather that the victim was targeted for a particular discriminatory aspect (People of European «White» can be victims of successfully prosecuted hate crimes in the United States).

These are usually charged against people engaged in criminal acts where the motivation is proven to include a hatred towards the victim for his or her perceived status as a member of a protected class (race, religion, sex (gender and gender identity), ethnicity / nation of origin, sexual orientation and disability (and homeless status in four jurisdictions)-RRB-.

A victim that has permanent resident status will not be deported for leaving an abusive sponsor.

While government agencies chase down and prosecute pimps, traffickers and individuals who've forced victims into servitude, Alston's attorneys assist newly freed individuals with applications for legal status in the US.

Padilla attorneys also represent individual clients in applications for immigration status or benefits with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and in removal proceedings before the New York Immigration Court, helping clients stabilize their immigration status and seek safety from persecution, family re-unification, or benefits for victims of neglect, abuse, or violence.

Sally has provided technical assistance, trainings, and facilitation to groups on local, state, and national levels and has co-authored a number of publications including The U Visa: Obtaining Status for Immigrant Victims of Crime (ILRC), The VAWA Manual: Immigration Relief for Abused Immigrants (ILRC), Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Court Judges (ILRC), and Application of Protection Remedies for Victims of Domestic Abuse, Human Trafficking, and Crime under U.S. Law to Persons Physically Present in the U.S. Territories (Family Violence Prevention Fund).

New attorneys generally had «conducted client interviews for U visa applications [visas that give victims of crimes temporary legal status] for abused women.»

And that, sadly, is the end result of the Teflon litigation, which lawyers for the victims have now dismissed after being denied class action status.

Her expertise includes the immigration consequences of criminal convictions; issues affecting immigrant children and mixed families; immigration consultant and consumer fraud; naturalization; family immigration; legal status for immigrant victims of domestic violence through the Violence Against Women Act provisions (VAWA); and trial skills.

Facing many compensation claims by victims of child abuse, the Catholic Church initially sought to challenge the scope of vicarious liability, arguing (for example) that it could not be liable for sexual abuse committed by a priest where the victim was not a Catholic and therefore (it argued) there was not a sufficiently close connection between the individual priest's wrongful acts and his priestly status (see Maga v The Trustees of the Birmingham Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church [2010] EWCA Civ 256).

Damages to the unit are addressed by the law as well, but the law does not simply allow you to walk away with a joint security deposit and leave the perpetrator on the hook for damages unrelated to a tenant's status as a victim.

Demographics and respiratory characteristics of comparison groups at initial evaluation for designation of air pollution victim status

Depression in groups of bullies and victims: Evidence for the differential importance of peer status, reciprocal friends, school liking, academic self - efficacy, school motivation and achievement, International Journal of Developmental Science, 11:, 31 — 44.

Finally, a group of studies concerned social relationships in and around the classrooms, expressed for instance in bullying versus victimization of bullying, 35 antisocial vs prosocial behaviour36 and classroom social status.37 These studies have demonstrated how important the school social environment is for the development of mental health problems in adolescents, and how important the familial background is for predicting who among the adolescents develops antisocial behaviour (or bullying behaviour) and who becomes the victim of other children's behaviour.

For example, a child who experiences maltreatment may develop primary emotional responses such as anxiety or fear.5 Ever vigilant for signs of threat, the child may display aggressive or submissive behaviours as a means of self - protection, and such behaviours may place the child at risk for future status as a bully or victFor example, a child who experiences maltreatment may develop primary emotional responses such as anxiety or fear.5 Ever vigilant for signs of threat, the child may display aggressive or submissive behaviours as a means of self - protection, and such behaviours may place the child at risk for future status as a bully or victfor signs of threat, the child may display aggressive or submissive behaviours as a means of self - protection, and such behaviours may place the child at risk for future status as a bully or victfor future status as a bully or victim.

• What complex trauma entails and how to assess for the warning signs • How play therapy can help clients heal from and move beyond their personal trauma — letting go of their victim status and embracing their new role as a survivor • Learn new play therapy tips and techniques to begin using in your practice immediately!

Jointly published by WHO, the United Nations Development Programme, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the report reviews the current status of violence prevention efforts in countries, and calls for a scaling up of violence prevention programmes; stronger legislation and enforcement of laws relevant for violence prevention; and enhanced services for victims of violence.

Identification of Early Child and Family Risk Factors for Aggressive Victim Status in First Grade.

Michigan's support for home visiting is especially critical, given that the number of confirmed victims of child abuse and neglect in the state rose 16 percent between 2000 and 2008, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Kids Count Data Book 2009, a profile of the status of children on a national and state - by - state basis.