Sentences with phrase «human rights action»

This Framework forms part of the National Human Rights Action Plan and affirms the Government's commitment to promoting awareness and understanding of human rights in Australia.

that it should be properly linked with the Australian Human Rights Framework, the Human Rights Action Plan and the Social Inclusion Agenda

As I discuss above at section 1.5 (c), this review could form part of the Government's National Human Rights Action Plan.

[281] In responding to this recommendation, the Government should consider commissioning an independent inquiry to review the operation of the native title system and explore options for native title law reform, with a view to aligning the system with international human rights standards, as part of its National Human Rights Action Plan.

The Government has made the commitment that the UPR recommendations accepted by the Government will inform the development of an updated National Human Rights Action Plan.

On Monday, April 22, the Steering Committee of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots convened a day - long conference at the Human Rights Action Centre in London for representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to discuss the new initiative to pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons.

Alex, I fully support your call on the Canadian government to release an International Human Rights Action Plan?

As a supplement to Omar's post, the US Human Rights Action Center has a beautiful animated and musical version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Amnesty International UK hosts the British film premiere of Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai at the Human Rights Action Centre in London on 28 May 2009: for details, click here The film will be followed by a question and answer session with Wangari Maathai; filmmaker, Lisa Merton; and director of the International Institute for Environment and Development (and openDemocracy contributor), Camilla Toulmin For more information on Wangari Maathai's work, see the website of the Green Belt MovementNonetheless, the farmers were unhappy.

Building on the tradition of letter - writing as a means of assisting scientists whose rights are violated by their governments, the program initiated the AAAS Human Rights Action Network (AAASHRAN) in 1993.

China's recent Human Rights Action Plan commits the government to improving a broad array of human rights conditions, ranging from economic and social development to political participation.

Friday morning, Amnesty International USA will have its weekend - long 2015 Human Rights Conference and Annual General Meetings, in Brooklyn: «The 2015 Annual General Meeting will bring over a thousand human rights activists from around the world together to engage in networking opportunities, human rights actions, inspiring plenaries, outstanding key notes, and hands - on workshops.»

Not exact matches

Google's YouTube has expanded a little - known «Trusted Flagger» program, allowing groups ranging from a British anti-terror police unit to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human rights organization, to flag large numbers of videos as problematic and get immediate action.

The UN Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to voluntarily align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment, and anticorruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues.

Mr. Axworthy said that he'll be raising the issue in late September in New York with the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group which investigates human rights abuses in the 54 - nation group.

The report is yet another call to action for Canada to work with First Nations as partners to realize our human rights, including our Aboriginal and Treaty rights.»

«Today's report shows that we need action now on our collective agenda for closing the human rights gap,» said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde.

Former California governor and Terminator movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger says he plans to sue the big oil companies for «first degree murder», likening their actions to those of tobacco companies, and NGOs are suing Big Oil in the Philippines for violating the human rights of typhoon victims.

Many also view Canada's record of action on human rights in the region to be ineffective, with 62 % believing the actions have made no real difference.

CorpWatch works to promote environmental, social and human rights at the local, national and global levels by holding multinational corporations accountable for their actions.

However, surveys have shown that many Canadians view the country's record of action on human rights in Asia to be ineffective.

Beginning in 2003, the Division of Corporate Finance too often has issued no - action letters omitting shareholder proposals that ask management to undertake a risk assessment or review the financial implications of an array of environmental, community, public health and human rights concerns and issues.

Legal action in federal court thrusts human rights into spotlight ahead of President Trump's planned summit with Kim Jong Un, potentially complicating denuclearization talks.

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America's largest gay - rights organization, swung into action, demanding that Johns Hopkins distance itself from the «falsehoods» that «attack the entire LGBTQ community.&Rights Campaign (HRC), America's largest gay - rights organization, swung into action, demanding that Johns Hopkins distance itself from the «falsehoods» that «attack the entire LGBTQ community.&rights organization, swung into action, demanding that Johns Hopkins distance itself from the «falsehoods» that «attack the entire LGBTQ community.»

Witness their efforts to preserve and enhance the earth and the earth's resources, to take action against oppression, to demand human rights, just treatment for all, and an end to war.»

nobody has a right to mock about others, you are judged by your actions and deeds, it's not possible to know about every faith in this world, but how ignorant can human mankind be especially after innocent Sikhs killed in Oak creek Wisconsin which was very widely covered.

So this is really promotional material for President Carter's new book: «A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power» and the letter he sent seeking Papal «blessing» or endorsement for his campaign on human rights abuses against women.

If ethics is allowed to be controlled by the laws of any individual state there is a danger of returning to legal positivism, where the laws of a single state are allowed to contradict universal human rights, allowing residents of that state «legally» to carry out actions that are totally unacceptable to the international community and the Catholic Church.

Earlier this year, memos obtained by The Human Rights Campaign in a Maine civil actions suit revealed that NOM aims at making gay marriage a wedge issued «between gays and blacks,» according to the released confidential plans.

The Programme of Action is comprehensive and seeks to build and strengthen «adequate national structures which have a direct impact on the overall observance of human rights and the maintenance of the rule of law.

Consciousness of, discussion of, action for and writing about human rights

Let me wind up with the need for NGO Ombudsmen armed with legal powers to take action wherever human rights are vulnerable and violated and also to recommend cancellation of treaties entered into with oblique motives by suspect national leaders.

«Among the rulings,» says the report, «we find some that advise illegal actions and others that transgress human rights standards as applied by British courts.»

Kuhle is absolutely right that «our sexual actions are moral choices undetermined by human genetics.»

Such a concerted campaign to use human rights in justifying military action is without precedent in U.S. — Latin American relations, and its effect is an unprecedented debasement of the human rights cause.24

That is to say, salvation depends finally upon right human action in response to God's gracious Torah, and Jesus» function is simply to re-present that Law as it exists primordially in the mind of God — not to create a new possibility for human existence.

The failures and vast human costs of modern «salvation myths» are now well known, as is the capacity of democratic capitalism to raise up the poor, protect human rights, and allow for unprecedented freedom of thought and action.

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.

To be free of ideological captivity is to «join the community of struggle,» to oppose racism and sexism, to fight for human rights and women's ordination, to engage in social action, to envision «holiness as justice,» and to develop nonsexist language and imagery in order to «empower» and free the congregation to engage in the «struggle for liberation.»

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch objected, saying the action «violates [the NGOs»] rights to freedom of expression and association.&Rights Watch objected, saying the action «violates [the NGOs»] rights to freedom of expression and association.&rights to freedom of expression and association.»

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.).

Exalting human rights as the epitome of social responsibility short - circuits collective judgment and stymies action for the sake of the common good.

It dealt very forcefully with the disregard of human rights in the current inquisitions and then spoke of the fanatical negativism without any constructive program of action which is leading the American mind into a «spiritual vacuum.»

To reject materialism, greed, sensualism, militarism, power, status and the American way of life, and to affirm peace, justice, the unity of all peoples, the sanctity of human life, human rights and equal economic opportunity, is to be radically different in world view and action from the world around us.

civil rights movement — actual actions by human beings that have helped for the most part in black empowerment.

The state is the climactic moment in Hegel's philosophy of objective Spirit and his Philosophy of Right.14 Rationality and freedom both achieve their peak within the concrete structures of human society in the state, which exists as a result of the actions of individual finite spirits and is in virtue of this the result of the movement of the Spirit in history.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

In such an analysis it is right to start with the truth that the Eucharist is essentially a divine action into which our human action is caught up.

Rightly understood, faith and justice are in principle different because, while faith is a matter of human existence, of authentic self - understanding in trust and loyalty in response to God's love, justice is a matter of human action, whether right action toward all others (its generally moral sense), or right structures of social and cultural order (its specifically political sense).

And then the center of the action shifted to Czechoslovakia, where more than 200 courageous writers and priests and physicists had signed a 1977 charter of human rights that landed many of them in jail or got them booted out of their jobs.