Sentences with phrase «human right context»

Some of the objectives of the training as highlighted by the organizers include; to enlighten participants on the legal framework for international human right laws and humanitarian principles, to improve the capacity of law enforcement agents in identification, protection issues in Nigerian human right context, to build the capacity of participants to appreciate their roles in protecting the rights of the civilians.

Jessica Wyndham, associate director of the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program, said that ultimately the new grant will permit them to build on previous projects and test new methods that have not been previously tested or applied to human rights contexts.

I didn't claim that they'd made claims «that are obviously at variance with mainstream science» — I claimed that for every loony right wing quote you could find (in your case focussing on anti-science) I could find quotes from leading leading leftys that are equally loony on other topics — I specifically mentioned global trade, because Brown and Milne have made some particularly silly and non-mainstream comments about things like the US FTA, trade with Japan (in a whaling context) or trade with China (in a human rights context).

Although this case was brought under the Federal legislation, the Canadian Human Rights Act (the «Act»), the principles of law are transferrable to the individual provincial human rights contexts, including Ontario, and this case should be viewed as the leading authority on the protected ground of family status with respect to child care obligations.

Isabel's experience includes in particular personal injuries within the human rights context.

To put this in a human rights context, asking people (including their physicians) to wait for up to a year before accessing newsworthy cancer research — to ostensibly protect publisher business models — seems contrary to «the right of the individual to life, liberty, security of the person,» to cite the Canadian Bill of Rights.

[91] First, while rarely used in the human rights context, the remedy of reinstatement clearly falls within the Tribunal's discretion to order under s. 45.2 (1) of the Code, as follows:

Although in the two recent Alberta decisions neither Mr. Caron nor Mr. Chieriro ultimately tested language protection in the human rights context, there will undoubtedly be cases around the corner that will continue to determine when and how claimants can be successful in language - related claims under the AHRA.

Cognizant of the very troubling human rights context to such a deal, certainly including the concerns about Indigenous peoples, Amnesty International and many other groups pushed for strong human rights safeguards.

Achieving social justice and redressing Indigenous disadvantage are human rights issues, and must be addressed in a human rights context;

In a human rights context, an essential requirement for our self - determination is that it corresponds to choice; which means our participation and control in policies and processes that affect us.

The Plans generally aim to empower Indigenous Australians to take control of their futures and to improve their socio - economic status in a responsible way within a self determination or human rights context.

The essential task of the workshop was to examine a number of key topics relating to the development of reconciliation benchmarks in the human rights context.

Not exact matches

Human rights does not lend itself to treatment within a trade agreement, however, and the Chinese have made it abundantly clear that they are not interested in putting their human rights record under scrutiny in a trade conHuman rights does not lend itself to treatment within a trade agreement, however, and the Chinese have made it abundantly clear that they are not interested in putting their human rights record under scrutiny in a trade conhuman rights record under scrutiny in a trade context.

The issue of human rights, or «governance,» is also often bundled with these other elements, especially in the Chinese context.

ACAT invites pastors, theologians, human rights activists, and those with ties to specific problem areas of the world to join in the attempt to discern the theological foundations of right and wrong and to persuade themselves and others what it is that may be true and just beyond preferences and national interests, beyond our limited contexts and confessions.

Independently of anything about the larger context, in other words, universal rights are grounded in the moral qualities of human persons.

From the context of poverty, this advocacy should respect religious plurality and human rights.

It is in the context of a general improvement of the situation that we reflect on the impact of globalization on human rights.

But in the context of my worldview, I don't have to struggle to explain the value of goodness, sacrifice, love, honesty, devotion, human rights, civil rights - concepts that are supremely important to humanity and (to most people) intuitively apparent.

- 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.

Therefore as i see it, in the context of an atheistic world view, defending human rights ultimately doesn't seem very defensible.

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

The programme sets out marriage as the morally right context within which sexual intimacy may be expressed while, of course, acknowledging that this moral teaching is rejected by many and infringed by others through human weakness.

They also have the right to expect that the moral and social context within which the programme is taught is clearly Catholic, that children come away with a clear understanding of social relationships and the moral context in which sexual intimacy should occur, and an understanding of why the Catholic Church teaches what it teaches about the human body, sexuality, and friendship.

Khalidi is also critical of various Arab and Muslim countries where human rights abuses, economic exploitation and a lack of political participation help create a context that fuels violence and extremism.

He tellingly reminds us that, at the United Nations in 1948, one of the principal drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was a member of the Chinese delegation, a dedicated Confucian who saw to it that that Declaration was not reductively individualist but had a social context.

Viewed in that context, the statement that every human being has certain inalienable rights given by God that governments and kings can not take away is a remarkable claim.

In this context it is significant to listen to Nirmal Minz, himself a tribal Christian, convincingly argue that the primary objection to Christian conversion in the tribal areas is the fact that people begin to make demands for basic human rights when they are converted.

Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights («Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person») has to be read in the context of Articles 5 and 9 which protect people's moral and physical integrity against interference from state and non-state actors.

The most valuable development in the context of substantial thinking of the individualist type was in the field of human rights.

But to make it «right» in quality and context is not easy when the contracting parties are not angelic beings but simply human beings who are mixtures of good intentions and sin.

The report deals with the subject: The Kingdom of God and Human Struggles, under five areas of concern: The Kingdom of God and the struggles of people in countries searching for liberation and self - determination; The Kingdom of God and the struggles for human rights; The Kingdom of God in contexts of strong revival of institutional religions; The Kingdom of God in the context of centrally planned economics; and The Kingdom of God in the struggles of countries dominated by consumerism and the growth of big ciHuman Struggles, under five areas of concern: The Kingdom of God and the struggles of people in countries searching for liberation and self - determination; The Kingdom of God and the struggles for human rights; The Kingdom of God in contexts of strong revival of institutional religions; The Kingdom of God in the context of centrally planned economics; and The Kingdom of God in the struggles of countries dominated by consumerism and the growth of big cihuman rights; The Kingdom of God in contexts of strong revival of institutional religions; The Kingdom of God in the context of centrally planned economics; and The Kingdom of God in the struggles of countries dominated by consumerism and the growth of big cities.

In a state of original sin, in which disordered human desires manipulate and misdirect reason, how can the student of scripture know which context is the right context, which history is the right history?

Develop a theology that is more evangelical and from our context of poverty, respects religious plurality and human rights.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

It is in this context, Pope John Paul II, for instance, is hailed as the Pope of human rights in the five continents.

We are not talking about people here or human rights, we are talking about a contest between football clubs so we have to look it int his context.

This comprehensive resource centers on the Respectful Maternity Care charter, a groundbreaking consensus document that demonstrates the legitimate place of maternal health rights within the broader context of human rights.

IAS, WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, Consensus Statement, «Asking the Right questions: Advancing an HIV Research Agenda for Women and Children», dated 8 March, 2010 IBFAN, Press Release 2012 on the Right to Adequate Food, Digest of the «Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to the Human Right Council (A / HRC / 19 / 59)» IYCN Project Preventing malnutrition of mothers and children within the context of HIV and emergencies (Haiti) UNICEF 2011, Levels & trends in child mortality, Report 2011 US Expert Panel Report & Recommendations to the US Congress and US Global AIDS Coordinator Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV, Jan 2010, Summary of successes and challenges of PMTCT, as well as recommendations for improved implementation UNAIDS 2011, Countdown to Zero: Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, 2011 - 2015 UNAIDS 2011 (with WHO and UNICEF) Global epidemic update UNICEF 2011, Levels & trends in child mortality, Report 2011

Within this context, this case of Mexico suggests the mixture of outlooks and contexts affecting processes of extracting human rights news from wider information can be put into four categories: newsworthiness, journalistic aims, economic aims and political aims.

A media ethnography conducted in Mexico in 2006, before and after the presidential elections, can illuminate what journalists are trying to do in their human rights coverage and how their outlooks and contexts condition the incidents that are covered.

Thus, while there are legitimate and important questions to be asked about which body of law applies in the area of counter-terrorism, U.S. lawyers are likely to continue to contest the application of human rights principles to what they contend is a «war context.»

An answer to a parliamentary question has also revealed that the BHA has received a further # 35,000 from the Equality and Human Rights Commission to to deliver «increased understanding of issues of religion or belief in the context of equality and human rights within the voluntary sector, media and general public&raHuman Rights Commission to to deliver «increased understanding of issues of religion or belief in the context of equality and human rights within the voluntary sector, media and general public&rRights Commission to to deliver «increased understanding of issues of religion or belief in the context of equality and human rights within the voluntary sector, media and general public&rahuman rights within the voluntary sector, media and general public&rrights within the voluntary sector, media and general public».

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As the EU (Withdrawal) Bill progresses through Parliament, we wish to support MPs to ensure equality and human rights protections are maintained, including the implications of the devolved context.

Amnesty International USA — Individuals and Risk program Contact: Email Amnesty International is a grassroots activist organization which undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.

«The thing that keeps me up at night is data scientists trying to intervene in human rights issues with no context of the human rights issue, and then human rights professionals using big data without examination of the assumptions around that data,» said Latonero.

«Human rights studied as social representations in a cross-national context,» European Journal of Social Psychology 29: 1 - 29.

It is within this context that the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition and the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program decided to develop and distribute an online questionnaire to scientists, engineers and health professionals internationally.