Sentences with phrase «human rights advocates»

IHRNA allows Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander human rights advocates to increase their access to information, share best practices in promoting human rights, and strengthen their participation in human rights processes.

IHRNA is an online network of human rights advocates focused on the rights of Indigenous peoples.

This move, which is opposed by justice and human rights advocates, follows a riot at the Parkville youth justice centre.

Since international conferences held in the mid-1990s, a new approach to sexual issues has been promoted by health professionals, sex educators, and human rights advocates.

Through the progressive development of web - based resources and regional workshops, the network will facilitate information - sharing between Indigenous human rights advocates across Australia about developments in Indigenous rights at the national and international level.

They vindicate the position maintained over the past two and a half years by many Indigenous organisations, human rights advocates, lawyers and community leaders that the amended NTA is racially discriminatory.

The health sector is also increasingly speaking up, together with human rights advocates and social policy and law reformers, about the urgent need for governments to tackle the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Tehran About Blog Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) is the press association established in 2009 by Iranian human rights advocates in order to report and disseminate daily news of human rights violations in Iran.

Human rights advocates and journalists have made the case that Facebook was being used to spread misinformation in the country, adding fuel to ethnic violence against a Muslim minority group called the Rohingya.

Within the past decade, non-governmental organizations and human rights advocates have increased advocacy efforts to end child immigration detention worldwide.

While the government has opposed his release, human rights advocates such as Amnesty International have argued that the one - time child soldier has been denied access to due process.

The issue of criminalization of HIV non-disclosure has been and remains an ongoing issue of concern to people living with HIV, community organizations, service providers and human rights advocates; therefore, it has been the subject of -LSB-...]

The Mayflower Hotel ballroom in Washington, D.C. was filled to the brim with dignitaries, human rights advocates, and allies to celebrate the Washington Office on Latin America's (WOLA) 10th Annual Human Rights Awards gala...

Waddell is the founder of the FemFour, a Cincinnati - based group of socially minded women who assembled the exhibition «with the aim of keeping the words and images made and deployed by human rights advocates who took to the streets of cities around the country this past January circulating within the public sphere,» according to a press release.

With the aim of keeping the words and images made and deployed by human rights advocates who took to the streets of cities around the country this past January circulating within the public sphere, FemFour, a group of Cincinnati - based artists and arts advocates, put together a traveling, ever - evolving archive of posters and placards, sculptures, textiles, and photo documentation from the day collected by the arts philanthropist and collector Sara M. Vance Waddell.

Other contributors, selected to represent a cross-section of society, range from barons, baronesses, MPs, and lawyers, to human rights advocates and activists.

Free United For Human Rights Information Kit for Educators Exclusively for educators, human rights advocates and civil rights activists whose classroom, group instruction or community learning students are 18 years of age or older

In a January editorial in Science, Alvarez, Huete - Perez and Axel Meyer, a professor of biology at the University of Konstanz Germany, wrote, «It is incumbent upon scientists, human rights advocates, nongovernmental organizations and wildlife protection organizations to share knowledge, voice concerns, provide guidance and demand a greater role for science in the design and construction of this massive project.»

A broad coalition of human rights advocates, scientists, and health experts have fought until last week to prevent the ceremony from occurring.

By engaging scientists through their professional associations and societies, the Science and Human Rights Coalition seeks to benefit from the scientific sector's existing resources and to develop new resources to meet the needs of human rights advocates for scientific research and expertise on a range of issues.

The request inflamed immigration and human rights advocates, who argued that immigrants already distrustful of the government would avoid filling out the census out of fear that their answers could jeopardize their status in the country.

Policy - makers, industry leaders, and human rights advocates will address the human rights responsibilities of businesses that rely heavily on scientific research and technology.

Dr. Piontkovski's case was taken up by the international scientific community, human rights advocates, and friends and colleagues, who organized letter - writing campaigns, shared information on a special website set up for the purpose, and began raising funds for his legal defense.

The meeting, held at AAAS headquarters, gathered scientists, engineers, health professionals, human rights advocates, community activists and policy makers to discuss water and human rights.

This comprehensive research tool is accessed by more than 250,000 students, scholars, educators, and human rights advocates monthly from over 150 countries around the world.

Also at 12:30 p.m., human rights advocates hold a rally to denounce what they call the Obama administration's «attempt to minimize ongoing, widespread human trafficking and forced labor conditions in Malaysia» to advance the TPP free trade agreement, outside Malaysia consulate general, 313 E. 43rd St., Manhattan.

Human rights advocates and lawyers were not born to fight counter-terror proposals.

Most human rights advocates maintain that such a right exists; the Universal Declaration on Human Rights expressly refers to it.

These statements are not entirely clear, but they imply a rather closer relationship between church and state than many Western human rights advocates would find comfortable.

Close cooperation to promote human dignity — a dignity understood in expressly Christian terms — is not what most Western human rights advocates envision when they think about church - state relations.

For example, most Western human rights advocates, even from Christian traditions, would say that religious freedom requires state religious neutrality.

Human rights advocates are looking to the Paralympics with high hopes of enforcing the disability rights of Russian citizens.

Human rights advocates usually attack murder and torture, but not poverty.

Despite open appeals from human rights advocates, Benedict did not meet personally with any of the country's dissidents, even as he met with the Castro....

Despite open appeals from human rights advocates, Benedict did not meet personally with any of the country's dissidents, even as he met with the Castro brothers.

Despite prayers and protests from religious leaders and human rights advocates, the Kremlin announced Putin's approval yesterday.

His imprisonment was condemned by religious freedom and human rights advocates around the world.

can only occur where there exists some institutional umbrella that can protect human rights advocates and offer both political and material support for human rights activities: a church...; a press sufficiently independent so that it can report information the government would prefer not be made public and that can offer a forum for some opponents of the government; professional associations, academic and intellectual centers which are financially solvent and not directly controlled by military or government officials.

Yet persistent and credible reporting on human rights violations continue, particularly in the areas of repression of political dissent, harassment of lawyers and human rights advocates, and suppression of religion and ethnic minority cultures.

He is an active volunteer International Human Rights advocate and International Relations researcher & analyst.

I spoke with human rights advocate Kerry Kennedy earlier today.

Miriam Colque, community and human rights advocate, Latin American Community Association (Latca) Luna Playback London Imagen Latina Justice 4 Cleaners (Soas) Carlos Cruz Garcia, United Migrants Education Project Colombian Solidarity Campaign Tres Coastas Campaign Unity Centre Right to Remain Bob Hughes, No One Is Illegal Karen Doyle, Movement for Justice Justice for Domestic Workers Awqapuma Colque and Nemequene Tundama, Tawantinsuyu Nation Zita Holbourne, national co-chair, Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (Barac)

We, like any other Ghanaian, woke up June 3, 2017 with another sad news that a 3 - year ban has been placed on Mr. Francis - Xavier Sosu, a Human Rights Advocate by the General Legal Council on the bases that Lawyer Sosu has been found guilty on two counts of «overcharging a client; touting and person advertisement on social media».

Human rights advocate, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has commended members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) for staging a protest against the continued detention of...

But Stein wanted Hawkins» name replaced with that of Ajamu Baraka, the human rights advocate she selected in August to be her actual running mate.

Gottfried has also worked as a human rights advocate, traveling to the Soviet Union during the Cold War to meet with dissidents.

Ottawa, Canada About Blog Amanda Jetté Knox is an award - winning writer, human rights advocate and public speaker.

Hi i'm Ryan im q 30 year old poet, writer, community organizer and human rights advocate.

There's Nakia (Lupita Nyong» o), Black Panther's precocious ex-girlfriend and human rights advocate, his friend W'Kabi (Get Out's Daniel Kaluuya), The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira as a fierce general, T'Challa's sister and chief technology expert Shuri (Letitia Wright), and the list goes on.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (R for profanity) Bamboo Curtain biopic about Beijing contemporary artist / political activist Ai Weiwei, a controversial democracy and human rights advocate who has been censored for publicly criticizing the Chinese government.