Sentences with phrase «human right changed»

Just as making education a universal human right changed the experience of humanity in only seventy years, your work and leadership as part of the global education movement can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

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«We believe every individual has a basic human right to access actionable healthcare information when they need it the most — at a time when they have an opportunity to change outcomes and live better lives.

These individual American attitudes may have changed corporate culture seeing that 89 % of Fortune 500 companies implemented their own policies prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation according to Human Rights Campaign.

Its Energy, Environmental Health, Waste, and Human Rights programs create positive, industry - wide change through corporate dialogue, shareholder advocacy, coalition building, and innovative legal strategies.

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.

Zooming in on climate change, Proxy Preview highlights one new shareholder proposal «that raises questions about transporting oil and gas by train and several taking up different angles on deforestation that connect ecological and human rights impacts.»

Founded by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 1997, the organization trains and mentors women leaders as agents of transformative change in economic development, human rights and political participation.

Through forming a strategic partnership agreement similar to the one conceived on the margins of Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada can pursue greater co-operation on issues such as international peace and security, counterterrorism, human rights, clean energy and climate change, migration, sustainable development, and innovation.

It means dealing with how human drivers merge and change lanes (badly), how they make right and left turns in traffic (differently), how they adapt to different weather conditions (inconsistently) and how they obey speed limits, traffic lights and stop signs (sporadically).

«This is a systemic critique, pointing out how the board must accept responsibility for excessive political spending, inadequate energy policy, our changing climate, toxic hazards, and human rights abuses,» Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, said.

Many feel that change in China has been frustratingly slow and that the country is failing to live up to international standards on political and human rights.

This was supported by findings in the Equality and Human Rights Commission report in 2008 which said that at the current rate of change, it would take more than 70 years to achieve a gender balance in the boardrooms in the UK's largest 100 companies.

But so many other dimensions of history, law, human rights, justice, finance, and climate change motivate the campaign to halt the Dakota Access pipeline.

Opposition leaders and human rights groups have accused the PAP of gerrymandering and demanded more transparency in the boundary changes of constituencies.

This new program recognizes and supports young Canadians who work in the international arena on the most pressing challenges of this century including political unrest, climate change, human rights and global health pandemics.

Explaining to its shareholders how it is addressing strategic risks linked to major environmental and social policy issues, such as climate change and human rights, is an important dialogue every corporation needs to engage in with its shareholders.

He was employed by two different human rights organisations (he doesn't say who for legal and security reasons), and what he saw changed his life forever.

The United Nations Declaration on Human Rights of 1949 Articles 18 and 19 says that «every person should have the freedom to adhere to and practice the religion he or she chooses, and to change religion without coming under pressure as a result».

While glad to see the change of attitude among conservative Christians with respect to gay civil rights and acceptance of gays as human beings, some persons were troubled over other aspects of the issue.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom's 2010 Annual Report took note of the shift, stating, «This change in phraseology could well be viewed by human rights defenders and officials in other countries as having concrete policy implications.»

Liberty of soul and freedom to change one's religious affiliation are human rights that should be asserted on behalf of all.

«The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights,» Congressman Smith told more than 600,000 people gathered in Washington DC for the 2014 March for Life.

Efforts to promote such changes in the guise of human rights are correctly condemned as egregious instances of «cultural imperialism» by which elites of certain rich nations, not least of the United States, attempt to impose their values on the rest of the world.

The oppressed have no other way of protesting their human right to live; and they think, too, that by rebelling they can change their situation for the better, if only to some small degree.

In short, anyone who appreciates the rapid change in historical circumstances and does not flee from this into a ghetto; anyone who knows that there is and always has been a mutable, human law of the Church, and that this kind of change has always been practised; anyone, moreover, who reflects that the Church not only has the right but the duty of shaping its canon law in accordance with changes in the times, will not be surprised at the change in many legal regulations which he is living through at the present time, but will recognize and accept this as a sign of the vitality of the Church and its pastoral care.

Though it is right to say that we find in the Bible the progressive revelation of God, it might be more accurate to say that the Bible shows how patiently and mercifully God always works with men, adapting his instruction to the ever - changing panorama of human experience.

JPT, Right wing groups spend a lot of money denying a human cause for climate change, isn't that the same?

Human Rights NGOs like the Centre for Governance and Development, Citizens Coalition for Constitutional Change, Human Rights Commission and Mazingira Institute, Law Society and the NGO Council helped to popularize the gospel of accountability as a culture of democracy.

Taylor also claims that human - induced warming has caused rising sea levels and desertification, hence «climate change refugees» which is an issue of human rights.

«When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...» But the Declaration then quickly moves, in the very same sentence, to the question of by what right or by what authority such a change is to be made.

For example, modern economics are now able to indulge their tastes (as economists put it in their cold way) for environmental change, social justice, human rights.

Because all human laws, customs, and opinions change from time to time and vary from place to place, we tend to think of right and wrong as relative to the particular culture in which we live.

Now some of the opponents to the unlimited progress of biotechnology do worry that changing human nature will ruin our «natural rights republic.»

This requires a change in human relationships and societal structures to accept all persons as equal in dignity and rights.

Then there is wisdom, human wisdom, man's intelligent ordering of his life, the serious employment of right reason, the attempt to find the proper way of life, the whole enterprise that takes form in political action and personal morality, in social work and poetry, in economic management and the building of temples, in the constant improvement of justice by changing laws, in philosophy and technology, the manifold wisdom of man which is also inscribed in the wisdom of God and which may be an expression of this wisdom, the first of all God's works that rejoiced before him when he laid the foundations of the world (Proverbs 8:22 ff.).

In the light of the vast economic and technological changes that the UN has already contributed to the global system of what Vasak calls «solidarity,» it is now possible to classify the basic human standards into three broad categories: rights (individual) needs (collective) and uses (world law).

Limiting choice for anyone seeking personal change restricts a fundamental human right.

Thus an assertion of the right to be religiously human, which involves choosing, transforming and inhabiting the world of «my» or «our» religion in accordance with «my» or «our» changing experiences, plays an important role in forming local religious identity.

Whatever changes in El Salvador's human rights situation must be understood in social terms as part of [the U.S.] counterinsurgency strategy.

It is because of this doctrine that certain Islamic countries objected to Article 18 of the 1948 International Declaration of Human Rights, which declares (among other things) that «everyone has the right... to change his religion or belief.»

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

This implies that we human beings do not have the ability or right to change or manipulate this immutable and eternal reality based upon our own desire, whims or peccadilloes.

Like most UN human rights treaties, its implementation by state parties is overseen by a compliance committee, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which issues «General Comments» meant to guide our understanding of the provisions contained in the treaty, and which conducts periodic reviews of state parties, instructing them how to change their laws in order to comply better with the treaty, as understood by the Committee.

It's the religious who try to legislate so that everyone has to share their morality, take away natural human rights, and go around telling people that they are sinners and need to change their wicked ways, thus destroying cultures and traditions and lives.

I'd love to know in what areas you see that, because while I certainly agree that in many ways the human race differs from the Bible's standards of right and wrong, I really don't see that there's been much change over the last couple thousand years — certainly not since the time of the Greeks, when we start having our first comprehensive records outside the Bible.

This requires a change in human relationships and social structures to accept all persons as equal in dignity and rights.

I turn to the Bible, not for scientific instruction, but for spiritual illumination, to share in the most influential development of religious ideas in man's history, to watch divine deeds that have changed human destiny, to sit at the feet of great prophets, to learn from the insights of the seers, to find guidance in distinguishing right from wrong, and above all to come under the saving influence of Jesus Christ.

These are as diverse as climate change and water use to human rights and obesity.

Meet the Rainforest Alliance's Leadership Team and Ambassadors Circle, with backgrounds in agriculture, climate change, forestry, communications, human rights, law, business, and biodiversity.

You only need read a typical sample of any club» s fan comments to see how fans expect loyalty and call players «traitors» who exercise their human rights to change clubs (subject to existing contracts of course).