Sentences with phrase «from human exploitation»

The world's wetlands too — often at risk from human exploitation — cover less than 6 % of the planet's land surface, but they hold the most carbon per hectare.

In fact, the agreement is unusual for protecting a huge area from human exploitation before people have had much chance to exploit it; before the last decade, scientists estimate, the doughnut hole was icebound for about 100,000 years.

Drawing on their own primary research, Hunt and Lipo argue that Easter Island's population did not collapse from human exploitation of the environment.

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Of the people identified as victims of modern slavery in Britain last year, 139 were Polish nationals brought over for labor exploitation with West Midlands Police currently investigating 70 claims of human trafficking from Poland.

Therefore, the entreaty of Latin America is for liberation from cultural domination, economic exploitation, military regression, social marginalization and political imperialism; it is an appeal for fairness in international trade and the establishment of a social order that promotes human dignity, respects democratic institutions and guarantees an equitable distribution of wealth.

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

Per the Catechism, U.S. authorities also have a responsibility to protect immigrants — presumably from threats like exploitation, human trafficking and anti-immigrant violence.

Salvation works in the struggle for economic justice against the exploitation of people by people; in the struggle for human dignity against the political oppression of human beings; in the struggle for solidarity against the alienation of person from person; and in the struggle of hope against despair in personal life.

In our present state of human nature, lust accompanies our sexuality and, if not countered, prevents sexuality from being a school and a means of love, and turns it into an obsessive form of self - centeredness that tends to make others into objects of gratification or exploitation, and not persons to be respected or loved.

(ENTIRE BOOK) Only the rebirth of compassion — for ourselves, for each other, for the planet — has the power to enrich and heal our ecologically fragile world reeling from human greed and exploitation.

In recent years, hundreds of companies have made commitments to eliminate deforestation and human exploitation from their agriculture and forestry supply chains.

To prevent the exploitation or coercion of research participants, universities and other organizations conducting or sponsoring research require that all researchers who intend to use data collected from human subjects be familiar with national and state - level guidelines for working with human subjects data.

The problem is that Home Secretary Theresa May describes the crime as «human beings used as commodities for the personal gain of others» (Hansard, 8 July 2014 col. 166), provoking the question of how this form of exploitation differs from other «everyday» exploitation faced by many (if not most) workers.

«A lot of people think the loss or degradation of habitat is the big threat to wild animals, but here it shows there is a major threat from direct exploitation by humans,» Ripple says.

Instead of facing down a flood from God, they're largely threatened by conditions brought on by centuries of human expansion, exploitation and pollution.

«From that, we conclude that it's probably related to human exploitation of large - bodied animals.»

To some people, taking stem cells from a fetus or embryo amounts to unethical exploitation of human life, and healing one life does not justify destroying another.

The Arcus Great Apes Fund - provides support for conservation efforts that promote the survival of the Great Apes in the wild and provides support for sanctuaries that offer safety and freedom from invasive research and other forms of human exploitation.

This necklace is from the Starfish Project, an organization that provides opportunities for women escaping human trafficking and exploitation in Asia.

According to a June 2017 report from the Human Rights Center Fray Matias de Cordova in southern Mexico and Kids in Need of Defense, smugglers sometime «sell migrant and refugee women and girls to human trafficking operations for the purposes of sexual exploitation.&rHuman Rights Center Fray Matias de Cordova in southern Mexico and Kids in Need of Defense, smugglers sometime «sell migrant and refugee women and girls to human trafficking operations for the purposes of sexual exploitation.&rhuman trafficking operations for the purposes of sexual exploitation.»

«By pure coincidence,» Boyle says, «her NGO, just the week before, had talked about doing something on human trafficking» — the illegal trade in human beings through which people profit from the control and exploitation of others.

Though historians debate whether Julia or her father was actually Jule's legal owner, there is no doubt that the future First Lady benefited from the enslavement and exploitation of other human beings for almost 40 years.

Summer 2017 — Issue 6, cover art by W. Jack Savage • Sixth issue of a «new deindustrial science fiction quarterly focused on publishing speculative fiction that explores a future defined by natural limits, energy and resource depletion, industrial decline, climate change, and other consequences stemming from the reckless and shortsighted exploitation of our planet, and to imagine the ways that humans will adapt, survive, live, die, and thrive within this future.»

Unfortunately, only 6 % of these reefs are healthy; Destruction comes mainly from human activity: dynamite and cyanide fishing, pollution, global warming, over exploitation and environmentally - unfriendly tourism, and more...

Wells imagines a comet which releases a green gas that creates a great change, turning humans away from war and exploitation and towards rational understanding and a heightened appreciation of beauty.

About 40 percent of methane is emitted into the atmosphere by natural sources like wetlands and termites, with the rest coming from human activities like cattle breeding, rice growing, fossil fuel exploitation, landfills and biomass burning.

Approximately 40 percent of methane is emitted into the atmosphere by natural sources (e.g., wetlands and termites), and about 60 percent comes from human activities like cattle breeding, rice agriculture, fossil fuel exploitation, landfills and biomass burning.

On Monday at noon, Ritter - Sorononen will join over a hundred activists from St. Louis and around the country to march through downtown St. Louis in a creative direct action to spotlight Peabody Energy and Bankof America's records of environmental and human exploitation.

The Advocacy Center of Louisiana protects, empowers, and advocates for the human and legal rights of people with disabilities and seniors living in Louisiana, in order that they may live an integrated life in the community, free from abuse, neglect and exploitation.

YouTube has made a number of efforts to try and crackdown specifically on child exploitation content, including removing advertising from millions of videos, imposing age restrictions on flagged content, and increasing the number of human moderators that scan its platform.