Sentences with phrase «fundamental human rights»

Sustainable development approaches rely also on respect for fundamental human rights [42] and recognise the vital role of Indigenous people in sustainable development.

Private property and the exclusive access to the fruits of one's own labor are fundamental human rights under natural law.

But don't be fooled: it may not be explicitly political, but the topic of climate and pollution is ultimately about some of the most fundamental human rights.

Third, it is a crime to defend fundamental human rights, including the right to food, work, shelter, land, health care, and other basic needs.

A scheme for publicly funding fundamental human rights litigation must recognize that government resources are limited.

We need rights, especially fundamental human rights, to put moral limits on power.

Freedom of expression and freedom of speech are fundamental human rights long enjoyed in Western society.

Additionally, in 2007, the international community moved further to acknowledge fundamental human rights for Indigenous peoples.

Communication and information services should be guided by respect for fundamental human rights.

On March 2 of this year, Representative Zemke co-sponsored House Joint Resolution H which calls to amend the state constitution recognizing education and access to literacy as fundamental human rights.

Detained former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, on Tuesday filed a N10bn fundamental human rights enforcement suit against the Department of State Services, its Director - General, Mr. Lawal Daura, and the Attorney - General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami.

Alluding to the Charter of the United Nations, the Declaration says that the nations have «reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom» (Preamble).

«I am amazed that the distinguished attorney is prepared to contest the superiority of the provisions of the constitution on fundamental human rights of freedom of movement and freedom of association over an erroneous judicial proclamation violating those rights.

These common law principles (in our Bill of Rights), derive from the Magna Carta (The Great Charter) 1215 enacted to protect fundamental human rights from oppressive arbitrary abuses.

Freedom of speech and association are fundamental human rights which Plaid members fight to uphold...

National president of IPDI, Austin Ozobo, cautioned the military against arresting innocent members of Tompolo family and ex-agitators, saying the group would sue the military in ECOWAS Court and International Criminal Court if it violates fundamental human rights in Gbaramatu kingdom.

But it does not entitle religious organizations, even in the name of autonomy, to persecute their members for exercising fundamental human rights.

Protecting the rights of the child — and respecting the human rights of Indigenous Australians — one and the same approach The complex issues being tackled and the proposed measures to be taken in the Northern Territory raise a host of fundamental human rights principles.

The Court's decision should be interpreted by workers» compensation boards and tribunals across the country, and certainly in Ontario, as an indication that they need to fulfill their statutory role in return to work in keeping with fundamental human rights principles.

«The situation came to a point where local media's fear of being arrested is leading to an increasing muzzlement of the press, thus infringing fundamental human rights such as freedom of expression and the public's right to know,» the International Federation of Journalists said.

International Human Rights Observer (IHRO) working together with Governments, United Nations and other International institutions to promote and protect the basic fundamental human rights of the masses declared in the universal charter of human rights of United Nations to build a global village of lasting peace, social, and economic justice and development for the 21st century.

• Abstinence - only - until - marriage programs threaten fundamental human rights by withholding information about human sexuality and potentially providing medically inaccurate and stigmatizing information.

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday struck out a N10bn fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by a former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, against the Department of State Service, its Director - General, Lawal Daura, and the Attorney - General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN).

We call on the US authorities to uphold fundamental human rights.

The Maltese and Montenegrin judges — whose language, incidentally, hardly gives an impression of objectivity: («the blinkered political correctness of the Borough of Islington which clearly favoured «gay rights» over fundamental human rights», «the doctrinaire line, the road of obsessive political correctness»)-- seem to have grasped at a distinction that backfires on their position.

Everyone will have a slightly different version of what this implies, but I think a few global principles emerge and they are often the powerful fundamental human rights explored by Keats and other philosophers.

Fundamental human rights assume a fundamental value as regards human personhood.

According to him, the judgement will further strengthen fundamental human rights as enshrined in the constitution.

David Davis told the Sunday Politics» Giles Dilnot that the aim of a British Bill of Rights was not to dilute fundamental human rights but simply to bring oversight of human rights «back home» - under the purview of British politicians and expert British judges.

The recently strengthened bilateral relationship between Britain and China «should provide the opportunity to address not only issues of mutual interest but also more sensitive areas, including fundamental human rights in Tibet and support for the Tibetan people's right to self determination,» the letter reads.

«To have found in our favour would have meant the Law Lords finding that the government has allowed fundamental human rights and European Law to be violated.»

In coalition, Liberal Democrats blocked plans to repeal the Human Rights Act and leave the European Convention on Human Rights, but now David Cameron is re-heating proposals to scrap fundamental human rights protections.

He therefore said that banning hijab under any guise in Nigeria would be tantamount to denying Muslim women of their God - given fundamental human rights as «it is part of our religion and symbol».

Patience, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, had, last week, filed a N2bn fundamental human rights suit against the EFCC, accusing the anti-graft agency of subjecting her to psychological trauma, unnecessary persecution and going as far as freezing her late mother's accounts.

The ideology of white supremacy, based on the subjugation of the black man in Rhodesia, denied the black man his full fundamental human rights and freedoms in his own native land and built a wall between black and white.

At oral argument, plaintiffs» lawyer Paul Hoffman opened by saying that the Court faced «the narrow issue of whether a corporation can ever be held liable for violating fundamental human rights norms under the Alien Tort Statute.»

Similarly, I have little doubt that these complaints will be adjudicated in a manner that does credit to the Canada's very fundamental human rights protection legislation.

The broad basis for the ruling was s. 12 and, despite the most fundamental human rights interest it protects, the application was not covered by legal aid, nor would the s. 12 aspect have been eligible for funding under the old CCP.

The Art 2 context meant that the court had to submit the case to «careful scrutiny», but that was entirely consistent with Manning and with the court's general approach in cases involving fundamental human rights.

The report finds that fully autonomous weapons could contravene fundamental human rights because: