Sentences with phrase «grave violations»

It is fairly evident that the Committee tried to instrumentalize its FR in order to provide the other constitutional authorities (the Government and — most certainly — the Judiciary) with somewhat of a saving (or escaping) clause in order to overcome the stagnation caused by the Margellos doctrine and the ICJ's authoritative distinction between procedural conditions, such as the jurisdictional immunity of the defendant State, and the merits of the case, even if the contested affair involves grave violations of jus cogens norms.

What is clear is that the UNSC is endowed with great powers which can and should be used consistently to address grave violations of human rights, where the evidence is clear and compelling.

Garzon v. Spain, ECtHR: Produced an expert opinion with James Crawford SC on permissibility under international law of application of limitation periods in respect of grave violations of international human rights law.

Conor's book, Reparations and Victim Support in the International Criminal Court (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) explores the ICC's regime of victim redress and the role it plays within the context of other systems of remedies for grave violations of international law at the national and international levels.

This will enable the UN to better address grave violations of the right to education in conflict situations.

Last friday the United States Government released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying «grave violations of human rights» continued to increase in 2017 while...

Last friday the United States Government released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying «grave violations of human rights» continued to increase in 2017 while officials who perpetrated them were never prosecuted by the Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The protests would be coming days after the United States government on Friday released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying grave violations continued to increase in 2017 while officials who perpetrated them were almost never prosecuted by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

«Recent UN figures show that there were at least 14,500 grave violations against children in armed conflict last year, including recruitment, sexual violence and abductions.»

Otherwise it will soon be impossible even to be trained in medicine without grave violations of conscience.

«If this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook's policies and an unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments these groups made.»

The crime of adultery is not only a grave sin against chastity but equally a grave violation of justice towards the other spouse and towards the children there may be.

For a Jew to subscribe to this belief would mean a grave violation of the prohibition against idolatry.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), a group supporting Christians under pressure for their faith described the incident as a «grave violation».

For example: in Reform temples men and women sit together, which Orthodox Jews regard as a grave violation of Mosaic law.

In a statement, Amida Care labeled the decision «a grave violation of LGBT anti-discrimination law» that «[revokes] key protections and rights for the Puerto Rican Senate's transgender employees.»

The lower German Court had decided that the freedom of religion entails amongst others the right to exercise and demonstrate faith in public and that the restrictions on the exercise of faith in Pakistan represent a grave violation of the freedom of religion for a devout Ahmadi.

The problem is so severe in Canada that the committee found the situation to be a grave violation of human rights.

This shell game of numbers and statistics is meant to blame the victim and deflect attention away from Canada's continued inaction to address this crisis which the United Nations has called a «grave violation» of our basic human rights.

If this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook's policies and an unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments these groups made,» Facebook said in a statement.

«If this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook's policies and an unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments these groups made,» Facebook said in a blog post on Monday.

If this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook's policies and an unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments these groups made.

«If this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook's policies and an unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments these groups made,» it announced in a blog post Monday.

If proven guilty, this would be a grave violation of the Unclaimed Property Law of California.

«If this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook's policies and an unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments these groups made,» Facebook wrote in a blog post Monday.

Facebook said it would be a «grave violation» of its policies if the data still exists.

«If this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook's policies and an unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments these groups made,» Facebook said on Monday.

«If this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook's policies and an unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments these groups made,» Facebook said in its statement.

Not exact matches

Raiser said the violence was resulting in «grave and serious human rights violations and crimes against humanity.

This is a grave offense against charity and, incidentally, a violation of canon law, which provides that a bishop must worthily support his priests when they are removed from ministry and, if they are truly in need, even after they have been dismissed from the clerical state (Canon 1350).

Leading around 150,000 people in prayer, Francis said the fertile green fields and snow - capped mountains of Araucania were both blessed by God and cursed by man, having been the site of «grave human rights violations» during General Augusto Pinochet's 1973 - 1990 dictatorship.

The protesters would also accuse Mr. Buhari government of committing grave human rights violations across the country, and for not prosecuting those who perpetrated them.

The security forces in the DRC are notorious for their record of grave human rights violations, especially sexual violence during conflicts between logging companies and forest communities.

Ten years ago the Canadian government launched a public inquiry to look into whether the actions of Canadian officials had contributed to the torture and other grave human rights violations that a Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, had experienced while he was illegally imprisoned in Syria for a year in 2002 and 2003.

Of course, breaches of the Charter do not justify others, but this goes to show that the UN has graver problems than abstract, retroactive violations of Article 103 based on the «constitutional» reasoning of a supranational court.

As the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court made clear in relation to allegations of war crimes violations on the part of the United States in Iraq, the threshold of whether civilian casulaties are «clearly excessive» to the military advantage to be gained is a high one, the mere «death of civilians during an armed conflict, no matter how grave and regrettable, does not in itself constitute a war crime».

Similarly, Indigenous peoples in developing countries have suffered grave human rights violations (including expulsion of traditional territories, forced relocation and the use of force to deny them access to resources needed for subsistence) under conservation schemes which purport to protect the forests, wildlife, or wilderness but not the people who have co-existed with them for centuries.

Article 8 allows for a committee to conduct a confidential investigation and inquiry, but only where they have received «received reliable information of grave or systematic violations.»

Furthermore, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities reported «reliable evidence that the threshold of grave or systematic violations of the rights of persons with disabilities has been met» in relation to the operation of such assessments.

In 2013, a township enforcement officer entered Knick's property without her consent, identified multiple grave markers and tombstones, and the next day issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) stating that Knick must allow the public to visit the grave sites.

Violations such as operating a vehicle with an expired driver license can bring grave consequences.

In regards to fact and guidelines, the violations committed by IndiaFirst Life Insurance are grave, and IRDA has the complete authority to exercise its powers under section 102 of the Act, and thus has imposed a penalty of Rs 5 Lakhs for violation.»

While their courses are funny, they will teach you how to drive better and more safely than you ever have before, and traffic violations from mild to grave will be easy to avoid for the rest of your life.

Reasons of the revocation would include the failure to settle fines and penalties of the traffic ticket violation, the failure to acknowledge responsibility of an accident, major accidents resulting to grave physical injury or even death, and the failure to appear before the court for a hearing.

These offenses are less grave than criminal violations and have different set of... Continue reading →