Sentences with phrase «fundamental right to life»

«Nigerian Government stands with the rest of the world in condemning, in the strongest terms, the killing of innocent people who have been deprived of their fundamental right to life.»

There is a fairly constant onslaught on the fundamental right to life — from Ireland with its proposed referendum on permitting abortion, to campaigns for increased access to abortion and euthanasia in many parts of the world.

«Living the Gospel of Life» is about both the fundamental rights of man and the salvation of souls, notably the salvation of the souls of those who violate or support the violation of the most fundamental right to life.

In Francis Coralic Mullin (1981 S. C. 746), Bhagwati J. observed: «The fundamental right to life... is the most precious human right and... forms the arc of all other rights».

To exercise this option is to defend and promote the fundamental right to life of all creatures on earth.

People do have a fundamental right to live.

For example, in Italy, in a September 2012 Sentenza [26](TT v Minister of the Interior), the Italian Supreme Court held that «[t] he penalty for homosexual acts, as provided by art. 319 of the Senegalese Penal Code, constitutes per se a general condition of deprivation of the fundamental right to live one's sexual and affective life freely».

The domestic violence law is so badly designed that it robs husbands of even their fundamental rights to live with peace and dignity.

[5] In this case, the court while reiterating the availability of some fundamental rights to arrested persons and detainees especially those available under Article 21, further held that «for violation of the Fundamental Rights to life or basic human rights, the defence of sovereign immunity is not available to the state for the established violation of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution of India under Article 21».

Homelands are places where we Aboriginal people can exercise our fundamental right to live on our country of affiliation and maintain language, custom and cultural practices.

Not exact matches

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

The first consists of the claim, affirmed in a December 23, 1988 Vatican press statement and quoted in the bishops» statement, that «the supreme pontiff... is deeply convinced that the two peoples have an identical, fundamental right to have their own homeland in which they live in freedom, dignity, and security in harmony with their neighbors.»

The right to an abortion should be recognized as a fundamental right triggering strict scrutiny because of the great impact childbearing and childbirth has on a woman's life.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fatherinTo hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fatherinto marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

Even if you ever get life ruled to begin at conception, the anti-reproduction rights side that you're on has a fundamental other problem: can you force someone to keep someone else alive?

And while humans today are said to be entitled to rights as fundamental as life or as strange as access to Wi - Fi, the entire notion of rights is undergirded by an implicit assumption of the dignity of all human persons.

John Paul II wrote in the apostolic exhortation Christifideles Laici: «The common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights — for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture — is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is notdefended with maximum determination.»

The right to life is a fundamental right.

And even more fundamentally, if we are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental qualities such as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the fundamental equality of human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act whose purpose is to cause fetal death) be defended at all?

A genre which rests on the fundamental belief that willful killing is wrong and that every human being, no matter how unpleasant, inconvenient or worthless his life may be, has a right to live it to the last natural moment, needs no particular apology in an age in which gratuitous violence and arbitrary death have become common.

In the modern metropolis, life — God's first gift and the fundamental right of every individual on which all other rights are based — is often treated as just one more commodity to be organised, commercialised, and manipulated accordingto convenience.»

But does that fundamental urge give us a right to life?

We go to work, socialize, and share public space with many people who reject the moral law's authority over their lives, people who regard abortion as a fundamental right or who think sexual liberation an imperative.

Unfortunately, at this formative stage in their lives one viewpoint is pushed to the fore on campus, and that's the opinion that euthanasia, abortion, embryonic stem cell research and a host of other practices which strip humans of their most fundamental right are good things.

If religion is concerned with ultimate Truth or God, it can not but have its implications for the whole of life, private and public, and therefore the fundamental human right of religious freedom should include the right to express religious faith in prophetic ministry in society and politics in the name of justice.

I agree that unless we understand the right to life as an issue of fundamental justice all the other claims for justice somewhat ring hollow.

The first and most fundamental human right is the right to life, or, to be more precise, the right of an innocent person not to be deliberately killed, whether by public authority or private license.

I'd sacrifice my life in the name of the freedoms this country was founded on before I'd shed a drop of blood to defend your right to exclude or discriminate against someone for something as fundamental as religious belief.

Concentrating on current problem, Popieluszko always took note of the largest issues involved such as the nature of authority and government, justice and the fundamental human right to freedom and believed that the root cause of the problems of Poland was the exclusion of God from its socio - political life and in the governing process.

It is hoped the Summit will agree then on the complete and rapid eradication of hunger so that every human being on Earth can enjoy the most fundamental of all human rights - the «right to food» and thus to decent life.

I truly believe that women have a fundamental right to evidence - based information surrounding reproductive health, pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period and I feel a deep passion for helping women to find and digest this information, feel empowered and emotionally supported, and assert their agency in these and all areas in life.

This woman owned, small business supports the LGBTQIA + community, Black Lives Matter, supports the rights of immigrants and the rights of indigenous people, religious freedoms, civil rights, and this business will always stand for the simple truth that women are PEOPLE who have the fundamental right to reproductive choice.

The kids tell me the food sucks now lol but they do nt see the bigger picture either... while it was a different era for us when us parents were in school; the fundamental rights shouldve remained the same... which is give the kids their choices... the Federal Gov can INCLUDE nutritious items on the free lunch menus while including more choices for them instead of reducing them to avoid social stigmas within the student body of the schools... Kids can be so cruel... Ive lived that first hand... I'm wondering who to contact to protest these changes.

And the reason that it occurs, and the reason that it's there and the reason that it's an individual right, is because our founders wrote it to protect the fundamental rights that we get from God that are expressed in the Declaration of Independence and those are the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and the pursuit of happiness also means property.»

It's a matter of personal conviction, predicated on a belief in the sanctity of life, and that the right to life is the most fundamental of human rights.

It suggested the proposed bill ignores the European court ruling that blanket data retention breaches fundamental rights to respect for private life and the protection of personal data.

The former NSA had filed an application against the Federal Government seeking enforcement of his fundamental human rights to dignity and security of his life.

It is also to enhance unity and solidarity between all African states and most importantly is to promote, protect and respect for fundamental human rights, which includes rights to live and freedom of movements.

I consider the need to do the right thing a fundamental truth of life, yet, most of the leadership in Albany, NY seems to operate without a moral compass with any apparent consequences

Mr Justice Blake found that British citizens have «a fundamental right of constitutional significance recognised by the common law» to live in their home country.

In 2007, when Romania joined the EU, we reluctantly agreed to postpone the application of the fourth fundamental freedom of the EU — the right to live, work and learn anywhere in the EU - until 2014.

«Safety and security, and the right to live free from fear and harassment, are fundamental human rights.

Former National Security Adviser (NSA) Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has dragged the Federal Government to a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking enforcement of his fundamental human rights to dignity and security of his life.

Olokun is pressing charges against Kashamu over alleged unlawful arrest, continuous threat to life, harassment and infringement on fundamental human rights.

Since the right to life is the most fundamental right of all human beings, termination of an unwanted pregnancy is tantamount to murder.

I am a spiritualist who believes women and children are the ones who suffer most when the basic fundamental human rights are not adhered to in a country, and for the Rawlings family to have fought for the welfare of women and children all these years, Ghanaian women and the youth must learn from their moral life and the kind of unity in their marriage, and practice it,» Mama Destiny noted.

MSF seeks to alleviate human suffering, to protect life and health and to restore and ensure respect for the human beings and their fundamental human rights.

But the crazy thing about empty space, weighing something --[well,] there are many crazy things — it produces a gravitational repulsion, rather than the attractions so the expansion of the universe is speeding up; but this stuff is so mysterious and inexplicable — completely inexplicable right now — that many physicists have been driven wild and mad and have changed what we might mean by fundamental physics by suggesting, for example, that the fundamental concepts in nature are not really fundamental at all, they are accidental; they are an environmental accident; that the are many universes and we just happen to live in the one that has the values it does because if you changed it a little bit then we wouldn't be living.

Rosanne Di Stefano of the Harvard — Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Alak Ray of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India, believe that conditions within globular clusters may be just right to facilitate long - lived, space - faring civilisations.

Our fundamental job as designers is to suggest a way to dress that is an appropriate reflection our times, of the world in which we live right now.