Sentences with phrase «human rights at home»

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For instance, one report, entitled Human Rights at Home: Miami's Housing Crisis and its Perpetuation of Poverty, analyzed raw data collected by Legal Services of Greater Miami and the Community Justice Project to show how Florida's rent deposit statute disparately impacts low - income people's ability to defend themselves: even if a tenant has a sudden financial hardship to overcome or alleges legitimate concerns about housing conditions, that tenant must deposit all the unpaid rent into the court to even have the dispute heard.

To co-operate with National and international organizations, groups and individuals engaged in promoting human rights and to participate in meeting and conferences on Human Rights at home and in abroad

Mark Thomas is a comedian and activist who appears regularly on TV and campaigns for human rights at home and abroad.

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At the end of 2013 — even before the Iraq crisis forced an estimated 1.8 million Iraqis from their homes — around 51.2 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced due to «persecution, conflict, generalised violence or human rights violations», according to the UN News Centre.

As a world leader for freedom and the protection of basic human rights, the United States should take every opportunity to advocate for people — including Americans here at home — to think, believe, and act according to their religious belief whether they belong to a minority or majority religion in their nation.»

At home and abroad, we can fight for human rights and freedom.

During the war President Franklin D. Roosevelt persuaded the Allies to list human rights as a war aim, and to popularize the idea, he campaigned at home for the «Four Freedoms» — freedom of speech and belief, and freedom from fear and want.

No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies, is never the rich man, nor the learned man, nor the distinguished man of any sort who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it is all simply the abstract manhood itself of the country, man himself unqualified by convention, the man to whom all these conventional men have been simply introductory, the man who — let me say it — for the first time in human history finding himself in his own right the peer of every other man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far freer and profounder culture of his nature than has ever yet illustrated humanity...

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His mother Janis Sharp, who won Liberty's «close to home» gong at its human rights awards ceremony last month, said her son had been on bail longer than anyone else in this country.

* A declaration that the arrest of the applicant by EFCC on January 5, 2016 at his home at No. 14, Drive 1, Prince and Princess Estate, Abuja, constitutes a flagrant violation of the applicant's fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutrights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutRights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutional.

«The biggest threat to the human rights of older people receiving care at home is from cuts to adult social care budgets and it is very unclear whether tightening eligibility criteria to care will allow local authorities to continue to meet their human rights obligations,» she said.

A report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) claims older people's basic human rights are being overlooked in the provision of care at Human Rights Commission (EHRC) claims older people's basic human rights are being overlooked in the provision of care atRights Commission (EHRC) claims older people's basic human rights are being overlooked in the provision of care at human rights are being overlooked in the provision of care atrights are being overlooked in the provision of care at home.

Tracy Reiman, executive vice president of PETA, an animal rights group, said the new law brings New York «one step closer to a day when the only performers in circuses are willing human ones who can go home to their families at night.»

The torture and human rights abuses at home, the funding of civil war in Africa and the threats against the lives of Rwandans living in London suggested something had to be done.

May has proved a highly litigious secretary of state, as she pursues various test cases on human rights law in Europe and at home.

As former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis argued so powerfully in yesterday's Mail, it would greatly strengthen Britain's hand at the negotiating table if our Prime Minister could claim a popular mandate for opt - outs on such issues as justice, asylum, immigration and human rights.

The Empire State Pride Agenda and Human Rights Campaign's New York political action committee, both deep - pocketed organizations, will hold a reception on Nov. 2 at the home of businessman and prodigious Democratic fundraiser Dennis Mehiel.

At 10:15 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul delivers remarks at Small Places Close to Home: An Annual Celebration of Human Rights Day, FDR Presidential Library, 4079 Albany Post Rd., Hyde ParAt 10:15 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul delivers remarks at Small Places Close to Home: An Annual Celebration of Human Rights Day, FDR Presidential Library, 4079 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Parat Small Places Close to Home: An Annual Celebration of Human Rights Day, FDR Presidential Library, 4079 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park.

«We received a clear legal opinion from Tim Owen QC and Julian Knowles, the barristers at Matrix Chambers specialising in human rights and extradition law, that the scope for the exercise of discretion by the home secretary is greater than you believe,» Keith Vaz, chairman of the committee, wrote.

10:15 AM — Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul delivers remarks on Gender Equality at Small Places Close to Home: An Annual Celebration of Human Rights Day.

Anti-Erdogan protesters clashed with police outside Downing Street today (pictured) as they tore into ministers for hosting the Turkish president as he locks up political opponents and human rights campaigners at home.

«What we learn in America, the best way to address any concerns of human rights issues is by having transparency and have America play a role in using our government to show how we do it here at home, we are going to do it there in Cuba,» he said, adding that he believed the nation had made progress in recent years.

Jackie Earle Haley's directorial debut feels right at home in the mlieu of Quentin Tarantino or Joe Carnahan, a fun — if derivative — crime romp that acknowledges its absurdity without losing track of its human characters.

The human cast is represented in large part by Sam Witwicky (a buffed - up Shia LaBeouf, no longer the skinny nerd of the first film), who is now heading off to college, and his super-hot girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox), stuck in her dad's garage where she works in cutoffs and halter tops and strikes poses that would look right at home on a pinup calendar.

E-TEAM (Directors: Katy Chevigny, Ross Kauffman)-- E-TEAM is driven by the high - stakes investigative work of four intrepid human rights workers, offering a rare look at their lives at home and their dramatic work in the field.

You'll feel right at home here with your dog, since this establishment — which does, after all, boast dog right there in its name — caters to keeping canine critters comfy on the sprawling patios while satiating the humans.

They are being given lots of attention by the staff and volunteers at our centres and foster homes to get them used to human contact, and many mothers and kittens are ready to be welcomed into their forever homes right now.

The Montclair neighborhood of Oakland, California is a popular residential district filled with plenty of amenities sure to make both humans and canines feel right at home.

Our experience has allowed us to create the perfect merge between facilities and human touch to make you feel right at home, with all the services of a hotel.

Speaking at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Ai spoke passionately about the plight of artists and activists in his home country, and implored Western governments not to overlook China's human rights in order to cement economic ties.

But it should be kept in mind that among our own conservatives, there is a home - grown hostility towards the UN which emerged in the late 1990s in the Australian campaign against the UN's human rights system.2 The criticisms by the Howard Government of the UN human rights system and the calls for it to be reformed were driven by anger and embarrassment at international condemnation of Australia's treatment of asylum seekers and inability to solve the problems of Indigenous disadvantage.

And if you're interested in learning more about the origins of World Human Rights Day, check out this post at Blawg Review's home site.

While freedom of speech and the right to organize politically are recognized human rights, the sphere of operation for those who do not agree with governments is shrinking both at home and abroad.

«It felt hypocritical to be going overseas to address human rights violations without also attempting to address some at home,» she says.

«It's a good thing provided it defends all cases of religious persecution, not just those that are bothering domestic constituencies at home, and that it doesn't ignore other human - rights violations, which usually accompany religious persecution, like limits on freedom of the press, denial of democratic rights and persecution.»

Solicitors» role in protecting human rights is key when advising UK companies on their conduct at home and abroad,...

It is tempting to point the finger at judges of the European Court of Human Rights who, in a triplet of cases against the UK government since 2004 (Connors v UK (2004) 40 EHRR 189, McCann v UK (2008) 47 EHRR 913 and Kay v UK [2010] ECHR 1322), have decided that evictions without a consideration of proportionality by the courts would breach a person's Art 8 rights to respect for private and family life andRights who, in a triplet of cases against the UK government since 2004 (Connors v UK (2004) 40 EHRR 189, McCann v UK (2008) 47 EHRR 913 and Kay v UK [2010] ECHR 1322), have decided that evictions without a consideration of proportionality by the courts would breach a person's Art 8 rights to respect for private and family life andrights to respect for private and family life and home.

The law lords» decision in YL v Birmingham City Council that the Human Rights Act 1998 does not apply to people in private care homes whose places are funded by local councils, exposes a loophole in the law which needs to be closed by statute, says Eric Metcalfe, director of human rights policy at JUSHuman Rights Act 1998 does not apply to people in private care homes whose places are funded by local councils, exposes a loophole in the law which needs to be closed by statute, says Eric Metcalfe, director of human rights policy at JURights Act 1998 does not apply to people in private care homes whose places are funded by local councils, exposes a loophole in the law which needs to be closed by statute, says Eric Metcalfe, director of human rights policy at JUShuman rights policy at JUrights policy at JUSTICE.

Although the autonomous concept of «home» has been liberally interpreted by the European Court of Human Rights («ECtHR»), it is interesting to note that such a high - security setting, which deprives people of their liberty and imposes medical treatment for mental disorder, could be regarded as «the place... where private and family life develops» (Gomez v Spain (2005) 41 EHRR 40 at para 53).

Solicitors» role in protecting human rights is key when advising UK companies on their conduct at home and abroad, the Law Society will say today (15th September).

«We know from investigations by Citizen Lab that these tools are used to target human rights activists and pro-democracy supporters at home and abroad.

To ensure justice for victims of corporate human rights abuse, transnational companies who evade accountability in the states hosting their operations must face justice at home — a new treaty under negotiation holds the promise of doing so.

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Through a network of dedicated volunteers, Human Rights Initiative helps those who have suffered terrible wrongs at home for worshipping their God.

The decision, which at heart was a grassroots one, to mark the first anniversary of the release of the Human Rights Commission report on the «stolen generations» (Bringing Them Home) with a Sorry Day produced controversy and, it must be said, division.

[Australians] believe in a fair go for everyone, and everywhere, and that belief in a fair go means that as a nation we seek to make a difference and support human rights and fundamental freedoms around the world and at home.