Sentences with phrase «groups have equal rights»

d. ensure that members of Indigenous groups have equal rights in respect of effective participation... and that no decisions directly relating to their rights and interests are taken without their informed consent;

In theology we were forced - painfully - to recognize that our heritage in Christian thinking was white, and that other racial groups had an equal right to determine what Christianity truly is.

Not exact matches

A group called the Equal Rights Advocates has sponsored an amendment to the California Unruh Act, proposed by State Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, that will make sexual harassment in the investor - entrepreneur relationship illegal.

Trump said the order aims to ensure faith - based groups «have equal access to government funding and equal right to exercise their deeply held beliefs.»

Trump said the new office will help ensure such groups have «equal access» to government money and the «equal right to exercise their deeply held beliefs.»

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

Unless the group is a true co-op with full equal rights (ie with no named or paid pastoral leader) then the group has to face up the fact that their equality is relative.

Yes Muslims in America have equal rights as any other religious group.

Is it surprising to you that a group of people would be «acknowledged» and «desperate» for equal rights?

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

How can you say you fought / fight for equal rights but then say one group can't have what the other group has?

He is unabashedly pro-choice, and once told a group of women attending an Equal Rights Amendment rally in Washington, D.C. that they would be better off giving their political contributions to Democrats instead of Republicans.

Clinton has dropped her «Texts from Hillary» Twitter avatar, replacing it with a female silhouette with text that includes the web address of No Ceilings, a group that fights for equal rights for women.

Equal opportunity in choosing a school A recent Wall Street Journal editorial had it right in criticizing civil rights groups like the NAACP for not jumping on the educational choice bandwagon since, as the Journal says, «reform's main beneficiaries are poor and minority students in places like Harlem and New Orleans.»

According to the account, the Republicans believe «the [Dept. of Education] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal funding.»

PRAISE AND CRITICISM OF DEVOS PILE UP: More than 250 civil rights groups have signed a letter opposing Betsy DeVos» nomination, arguing she would «undermine bedrock American principles of equal opportunity, nondiscrimination and public education.»

SK Roy, the chairman of LIC, said, that Supreme Court, in a verdict commended by human rights groups, called on the administration to make sure that they (third gender) receive an equal treatment and the advice has been taken up for for implementation.

Allowing equal rights to «life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness» to all groups of people, does nothing to diminish the rights of those who already have those privileges.

«measures taken for the sole purpose of securing adequate advancement of certain racial or ethnic groups or individuals requiring such protection as may be necessary in order to ensure equal enjoyment or exercise of human rights and fundamental freedom, provided that such measures do not lead to the maintenance of separate rights for different racial groups and that they shall not be continued after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved».

That is, society needs to ensure «substantive equality» (where all groups have equal opportunity to enjoy human rights) rather than just «formal equality» (where equal treatment of all can result in some groups having less opportunity because of relevant differences).

Special measures taken for the sole purpose of securing adequate advancement of certain racial or ethnic groups or individuals requiring such protection as may be necessary in order to ensure such groups or individuals equal enjoyment or exercise of human rights or fundamental freedoms shall not be deemed racial discrimination, provided, however, that such measures do not, as a consequence, lead to the maintenance of separate rights for different racial groups and that they shall not be continued after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved.

This would be the case where in instances of underlying disadvantage, temporary affirmative action or special measures are allowed in order to hasten equal enjoyment of rights for all racial groups.