Sentences with phrase «human affairs right»

As I wrote last month, one way to look at the turbulence in human affairs right now — a turbulence captured in both the disruptive and transformational constructs Friedman examines — is to think of it as akin to the rewiring that occurs in the teenage brain prior to the rebooting we call adulthood.

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Charlie Coffey, O.C. Executive Vice President Government Affairs & Business Development RBC Financial Group Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR) Summit «Human Rights: Everyone's Business» Windsor Arms Hotel Toronto, Ontario

Zakaria wasn't suggesting ceding Western values and beliefs — but rather recognizing that prevailing attitudes on such issues as the environment, human rights, and social affairs are different in many parts of Asia than those that hold sway in the West.

2005.10.19 Reaching for the Stars: Creating the Canadian Brand for Human Rights Leadership Charlie Coffey, O.C. Executive Vice President Government Affairs & Business Development Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR) Summit «Human Rights: Everyone's Business»

The organizations sent a joint letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland outlining their shared principles and priorities for a new trade model rooted in principles of equity, the primacy of human rights — including the rights of Indigenous peoples, women and girls, workers, migrants, farmers, and communities — and social and ecological justice.

She has an extensive background in trade policy, human rights, and foreign affairs.

Second row standing from left to right: F. Robert Salerno, President & CEO, Cendant Car Rental Group; Richard Wistrand, Senior Vice President & Chief Fossil Officer, TXU; David Rader, Senior Vice President Finance and CFO, Frito - Lay Division, PepsiCo, Inc.; Mirian Graddick - Weir, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, AT&T; Lisa Martin, Vice President, Global Sourcing, Pfizer, Inc.; Theo Fletcher, Vice President, Supply Chain Compliance, Security & Diversity, IBM Corporation; A. Shuanise Washington, Vice President Government Affairs Policy and Outreach, Altria Group, Inc.; Bruce Perkins, Vice President, Manager, Supplier Diversity and Business Development Group, Merrill Lynch; Joyce M. Wichie, Director, Supplier Diversity, Worldwide Purchasing, Eastman Kodak Company; Dick Anderson, Vice Chairman, Planning & Administration, BellSouth Corporation; John D. Hofmeister, President and Country Chair, Shell Oil Company; Robert McCormes - Ballou, Director, Vendor Diversity, Office Depot; and Michael L. Eskew, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, UPS.

The throw - weight of the Holy See, the papacy, and the Catholic Church in twenty - first - century world affairs reflects the perception that the Church has become the world's preeminent institutional defender of basic human rights — and thus the greatest bulwark, among the great world religions, to the freedom project around the globe.

Many Christian lawyers, including Tahir Khalil Sindhu, provincial minister for minorities affairs and human rights, were present to defend Asia Bibi.

The meeting lasted three hours and touched on matters ranging from terrorism and education to human rights, according to Johnnie Moore, a California pastor and public affairs executive who attended and served as a spokesman for Trump's ad hoc board.

In particular, Lutheran theologian O. Frederick Nolde, who represented the Federal Council of Churches and was the first director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), lobbied very effectively for inclusion of human rights in the UN Charter and for specific provisions in the Universal Declaration.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Last week in Rome, scholars — gathered by the University of Notre Dame's Center for Civil and Human Rights and the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs — presented their findings at the Under Caesar's Sword conference.

In the activity of Jesus, God could be seen putting human affairs to rights, entering the lists on behalf of humans against their ancient enemies.

Testimony of Holly Burkhalter for America's Watch to the House Subcommittees on Western Hemisphere Affairs and Human Rights and International Organizations, January 31, 1990.

What is the matter with human affairs is that there is an accumulation of wrong decisions and actions that inevitably has produced a state in which right decisions and actions are more and more difficult.

«Thank goodness the lord chancellor has now realised that the government's wobbling on the human rights convention did nobody any good,» said Liberal Democrat constitutional affairs spokesman Simon Hughes.

This article is based on conversations with Catherine Barnard, professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge, Anand Menon, professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe, Steve Peers, professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex, Amy Porges, adviser and government representative on WTO negotiations and litigation and free trade agreements, John Springford, director of Research at the Centre for European Reform and other politicians, trade negotiators, civil servants and officials in London, Washington and Brussels who asked not to be named.

BHA Head of Public Affairs Naomi Phillips commented that «Human rights are at the very core of the work of the BHA, and we have long been an advocate for the need for strong and clearly understood human rights legislaHuman rights are at the very core of the work of the BHA, and we have long been an advocate for the need for strong and clearly understood human rights legislahuman rights legislation.

Shadow constitutional affairs secretary Oliver Heald added that some of the lord chancellor's comments do not apply to the Human Rights Act.

His scholarly write - ups have been published in international journals such as Human Rights Quarterly (US), Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (UK), African Affairs (UK), and Review of Human Factor Studies (Canada).

Britain has never been very interested in international affairs, so it will have little notion of the warmth with which an attack on human rights will be received in some of the more questionable capitals of the world.

Patricia Ferguson, Scottish Labour's external affairs spokesperson, said: «For Scotland's First Minister to admit his admiration for someone with such a controversial record on human rights and democracy does not reflect well on our country.

For that decision, President Lincoln came under sustained attacks and media condemnation, as well as litigation, all orchestrated by some American human - rights activist groups and public affairs commentators.

Politike focuses on the analysis of international affairs and human rights issues, especially those of the Global South.

Alastair Sloan writes columns about international affairs and human rights for Al Jazeera, Middle East Monitor and The Daily Star in Lebanon.

Also at 6 p.m., the NYC Commission on Human Rights and the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs host the First Annual African Community Forum and Resource Fair, Metropolitan College of New York, 463 E. 149th St., the Bronx.

Dr. Pogge is a renowned expert on poverty and human rights, Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University.

233 regarding healthcare reform, 125 on poverty and public assistance, 112 crime fighting bills, 97 economic bills, 60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills, 21 ethics reform bills, 15 gun control, 6 veterans affairs and many others.

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Now the government is seeking an extension despite opposition from the home affairs select committee, human rights lobby groups and MPs from both sides of the house.

Apart from the outgoing US Ambassador that is expected at the open public hearing, the Committee also extended invitation to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, the three accused lawmakers, the National Human Rights Commission, as well as the other seven members that attended the leadership programme.

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There is something fundamentally wrong with a state that is so grossly overcentralised (above all, when it comes to the affairs of England) and has such an overmighty executive, restrained only by judges implementing the Human Rights Act, unelected lords and journalists.

In December, both the home affairs select committee and the joint commitee on human rights report that there is no evidence to suggest the law needs to be changed.

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But in their response to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's annual human rights report, the foreign affairs committee urges the government to consider its policies.

«Once again, the Home Office is fighting an undignified rearguard action designed to give as little as possible in response to the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights,» said Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne.

Both the Commons home affairs committee and joint committee on human rights have criticised this procedure, with safeguards dismissed as «meaningless».

Today's human rights report from the Commons» foreign affairs committee is highly critical of the government's failure to pass legislation on the issue.

«While the Lord Chancellor is regularly wheeled out to defend the prime minister or the flawed Human Rights Act, shouldn't he be concentrating on getting his own house in order at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, so that it delivers access to justice for all?»

Robert Megna: Director of the Division of Budget Jim Malatras: Deputy Secretary for Policy Management Andrew Zambelli: Counselor to the Governor Linda Lacewell: Special Assistant to the Governor Paul Francis: Director of Agency Redesign and Efficiency Sabrina Ty: Deputy Secretary of Legislative Affairs Barry Sample: Deputy Director of State Operations Leslie Leach: Appointments Secretary to the Governor Yrthya Dinzey - Flores: Chief Diversity Officer Gaurav Vasisht: First Assistant Counsel Alphonso David: Deputy Secretary for Civil Rights Kristin Proud: Deputy Secretary for Human Services, Operations, and Technology Elizabeth Glazer: Deputy Secretary for Public Safety Patrick Foye: Deputy Secretary for Economic Development James Introne: Deputy Secretary for Health and Director of Healthcare Redesign Thomas Congdon: Assistant Secretary for Energy and Environment Yomika Bennett: Assistant Secretary for Transportation

The Commission on Human Rights, the Department for the Aging, the Department of City Planning, the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Small Business Services and Stringer's own office each received a B.

Speakers will include Dr. Barbara Wallace, Columbia University, Teacher's College; Dr. Mardia Stone, MD, PhD, Health Advisor to Liberian Government; Eluemuno Blyden, PhD, Virologist AfriVax; Dr. Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, NYC DOHMH Assistant Commissioner; Dana March, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University; Rudolph Pyatt, Deputy General Counsel, NYC Commission on Human Rights; Assistant Commissioner Israel Rosario of the Mayor's Office on Immigrant Affairs; Christina Farrell, Deputy Commissioner for External Affairs, New York City Office of Emergency Management; and Health and Hospitals Corporation President Dr. Raju Ramanathan, MD, MBA, FACS, FACHE.

Mr. President, you will remember that in December 2011 the White House released a presidential memorandum directing executive officers and agencies that deal in foreign affairs to address human rights abuses against LGBT people abroad and to pressure foreign governments to decriminalize homosexuality.

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«There are adequate, if not overwhelming, reasons to be concerned that the two repositories that are under debate right now are not the only places in the world where live smallpox virus still exists,» says Nils Daulaire, director of the Office of Global Health Affairs at the US Department of Health and Human Services, and head of the US delegation to the Geneva meeting.

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