Sentences with phrase «human cost of»

Chapter 4 of this Report provides a detailed account of the human cost of the confirmation provisions to Indigenous people.

That's understandable too, but when tech executives speak blithely of «headcount alignment changes», they're trying to distract us from the human cost of their cock ups.

Staci Burns and James Bridle, author of «Something Is Wrong On The Internet», investigate the human cost of gaming YouTube recommendations.

A PSA showing the true human cost of distracted driving, from the perspective of a teenage distracted driver and their victim's family.

«any action undertaken for reasons of safety, security or public protection that relies on stereotypes about race, colour, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, or place of origin rather than on reasonable suspicion, to single out an individual for greater scrutiny or different treatment» (OHRC, Paying the Price: The Human Cost of Racial Profiling, 2003, p. 6).

Mandatory reading for officers, including books on racial profiling, the Ontario Human Rights Commission's 2003 report «Paying the price: The human cost of racial profiling,» the 1995 report of the Ontario Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System, and several Toronto Star series on carding, including2003 report «Paying the price: The human cost of racial profiling,» published in September.

The human cost of sensible strategic decisions has dominated the headlines on Legal Week during the past seven days.

Why did it not consider the human cost of its policies before rushing them through parliament?

It's not clear how much credit the WHO can take for reducing the human cost of malaria.

The human cost of this disease is almost immeasurable.

«The missing maths: the human cost of fossil fuels.

My surprise was because I'd just read «The missing maths: the human cost of fossil fuels» on Skeptical Science last week, which included this: «The EPA estimates that the U.S. Clean Air Amendments cost $ 65bn to implement, but will have yielded a benefit of almost $ 2tn by 2020 in avoided health costs.»

And air pollution isn't the only harmful human cost of China's coal - driven industrial growth and export - orientation.

The report, The Human Cost of Weather - Related Disasters 1995 - 2015, is intended to focus attention during the UN climate change conference — which opens in Paris on Monday − on the damage already inflicted by global warming as a consequence of rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, in turn as a consequence of the human combustion of fossil fuels and the destruction of the planet's forests.

Science Daily: A new book, «Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change,» predicts a grim future for billions of people in this century.

Superstorm Sandy and Typhoon Haiyan hit a year and hemispheres apart — with Sandy battering cities up and down the eastern US in 2012 and Haiyan devastating the Philippines in 2013 — but together they made the real human cost of climate change painfully apparent to anyone with eyeballs.

Natural disasters such as floods and heatwaves occur almost daily across the world, double the frequency of 20 years ago, says a United Nations report, Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters.

The human cost of global warming is hard to quantify.

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) released an updated version of its Energy Poverty video, elaborating on the terrible human cost of «climate» policies (with no actual projected impact on climate), noting political and legal developments since President Trump's dramatic announcement on June 1, 2017, that the United States would withdraw from the -LSB-...]

The Human Cost of Natural Disasters: A Global Perspective.

Thursday was World Environment Day, and the green messages were flowing all around, including one from Alain Robert, a French stuntman and activist who scaled the jungle - gym like exterior of The New York Times headquarters to hang a banner about the human cost of global warming.

Riffing off the book Every Twelve Seconds by Tim Pachirat, Mark Bittman penned an excellent piece last week in the New York Times, explaining the human cost of animal suffering, and demonstrating how it's the system's routine normalization of suffering, not the outlying cases of abuse, that should be the largest cause for concern:

And Maypole (Take No Prisoners)(2007), by fellow Protest artist Nancy Spero, might be this generation's Guernica: a howl of pain and anger distilled into a direct visual language that feeds into a historical continuum of the human cost of war — the visual articulation of horrified disbelief.

Curated by Cheryl Haines, the executive director of the For - Site Foundation — an arts organisation that supports innovative pop - up shows and site - specific works — the exhibition highlights the human cost of war and political conflict through the works of internationally renowned artists.

From the romanticism of some of the earliest work exhibited such as George Morland and Walter Langley depicting the human cost of shipwrecks and their aftermath to the effects of climate change upon the sea, coastal erosion and rising sea levels, that is portrayed in work by artists such as Jethro Brice, Simon Read and Michael Porter.

The figures are brutalised by the artist, punctured with industrial sized nails and subjected to primitive amputations, referring to the human cost of conflict.

FRAU FIBER is a soft guerilla super hero crafting spirited durational performances, using pedagogical, material, and playful approaches to teach communities about the human cost of mass production and consumption.

His Three Gorges Project series consists of huge paintings and is one such example: in this work, Liu chronicles not only the construction of the highly controversial dam along the Yangtze River but also the trying human cost of the project.

But the anthology format is a masterstroke, using different perspectives to capture the sensational action of conflict, while sensitively showing the human cost of war.

But as one of those anti-war, «let's all just get along» hippy types, i'll always have a soft spot for games that look at the human cost of armed combat.

If possible do also include the human cost of the charges, tell your story of why they've been debilitating, and if they've caused you financial hardship specifically mention it as that's what the Ombudsman has said it'll look at, so the bank needs to be sensitive of the personal impact too.

One sex scene fits neither the story nor the characters, and the violence may make even the most jaded reader uncomfortable, but this is a relentless and revelatory look into the human cost of those who torture on behalf of their country,» says Library Journal.

Campbell deftly describes the human cost of war and the repercussions of disastrous policies in Iraq.

It is, however, a very important book that helps readers understand the human cost of war, and the ongoing problems our returning soldiers and their families face.

As we see families forced into shelters, squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America's vast inequality — and to people's determination and intelligence in the face of hardship.

It's hard to argue with the human cost of the estimated 1.2 million who died in road accidents globally in 2010.

His primary mission is to create a documentary / television series for PBS and the Arts & Entertainment Channel that will expose the human cost of man's inhumanity to man.

The human cost of this charter sector improvement is also not addressed in the study.

Zeroing in on seven people from varying income brackets, Katharine Round's richly empathetic docu - study tots up the human cost of erupting inequality.

Good old - fashioned sharp storytelling drive three films dramatizing the human cost of East Asia's continued economic upheaval

By coincidence, The Big Short opens in UK cinemas just as Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes, a powerful account of the human cost of the housing crash, comes to DVD.

Corman is adept at creating human moments between the plot points, reminding us of the little guys caught up in the war and the human cost of the violence, while the narration provides the death dates of each character in their respective introductions.

While there's more than enough action to go around in this new promo, the real focus is on the very human cost of Omnicorp's new robot police force.

In John Ford's rueful 1946 allegory about the human cost of America's new role as global peacekeeper, Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) agrees to clean up Tombstone, Arizona, as a pretext for revenging his teenage brother's murder by Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan) and his rustler sons.

Taken together, they provide the clearest picture yet of the human cost of the war.

So researchers trying to measure the human cost of the wars have had to turn to other data sources.

THE human cost of Greece's predicament is becoming clear.

Mr Cameron said that the rising unemployment figures released this morning were «another sign of the human cost of the economic mistakes of the past decade».

Advantage Hein, though it does speak to the human cost of all this cost - cutting.

«Every death and every injury reminds us of the human cost of our forces,» he says.