Sentences with phrase «human rights attack»

In a speech to the national assembly and the senate, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta cited David Cameron's human rights attack, in what he framed as a global battle between national sovereignty and over-enthusiastic courts.

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«I am hearing the alarm you all are sounding that the civility and human rights we have all taken for granted for so long are under attack,» he wrote.

«France has been hit on its national day,» he continued, adding «our national symbol, because human rights are linked and attacked by fanatics.»

WASHINGTON, April 24 - Foreign corporations can not be sued in American courts for human rights abuses committed overseas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, refusing to revive a lawsuit claiming Jordan - based Arab Bank Plc helped finance militant attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

The companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners to use religious objections to deny same - sex couples wedding.

WASHINGTON, April 24 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that foreign corporations can not be sued in American courts for human rights abuses overseas, refusing to revive a lawsuit claiming Jordan - based Arab Bank Plc helped finance militant attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

«Together we can send the unambiguous message that the women of UBC have supporters everywhere who will stand against sexual violence — that the rape chants that students at the Sauder School were participating in are deplorable and must be properly dealt with as a violation of women's human rights; that repeated sexual attacks on young women on campus are a crisis with which we should all be concerned.

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.»

Associated Press and Human Rights Watch UN peacekeeping forces, some of which were only a few minutes away, were notified via electronic messages of the attack minutes after it happened.

The proposal is an «attack on freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, and the right to privacy that gives law enforcement unreasonably broad powers,» the humanitarian group Human Rights Watch told The Guardian.

Okay, I'm just going to say this right out — Sabio, your links offered can be viewed as antitheistic attacks and, in some instances where one looks for evidence to back the Bible being a human document, REALLY go into that territory.

This is why, Francis insists, we must oppose, not just assaults on the environment, but grave attacks on human rights — such as abortion and coercive population control — and condemn destructive gender ideologies, since «it is not healthy to cancel out sexual difference.»

Indeed, the unique and intrinsic value of human life merely for being human is under concerted attack across a broad array of disciplines — bioethics, animal rights, radical environmentalism, and Darwinism.

The Assyrian Human Rights Network has been chronicling the attack's aftermath via photos on its Facebook page.

The more prophetic forms of Christianity that press toward human rights and social justice are precisely those most under attack by non-Christian militants at local levels, and many activists want to bring judgment against these religions.

The UN has urged Russian armies supporting President Bashar al - Assad's attacks on Syria to allow safe passage and ensure their safety in what the United Nations human rights office termed «a complete meltdown of humanity.»

how come their is still no talk about Russia Orthodox church attacking freedom of expression by p4ss7 riot,... oh that's right because anything Christians do that's evil is left out of the MSM meanwhile their letting more Christians strip human right from people, your just going to let that country and their Christians get away with it,..

Meanwhile, even before the new attacks, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva said the death toll in Syria is at least 3,500 since March...

On the eve of his assassination, his sermon was being broadcast on the radio, in which he condemned the attack on human rights and the violence done to the men, women and children.

The attack on pro-life Ireland resumed with a vengeance in 2005, when three women accused Ireland of violating their basic rights under the European Convention on Human Rights by prohibiting aborights under the European Convention on Human Rights by prohibiting aboRights by prohibiting abortion.

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

«It is clear, according to our research, that it is Christians who have been suffering under Seleka rule and Muslims have been profiting,» Lewis Mudge of Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in an email to Morning Star News from the lawless country yesterday, adding that Seleka agents «have not hesitated to attack Christian places...

He added that as well as violently attacking her, it was «beyond belief of any right - thinking human being» that he went on to rape her.

When my fundamental rights as a human being have the possibility of being threatened, it is an attack on my being as a person, as a human being.

I see we are interested in griezman 6 months too late... Sick of having a right winger praised for being a human Duracell battery want a right winger who threatens defences constantly down the right wing and can cross and cut in... And why the f @@@ is mertesakher playing a decent attack would have capitalized on his basic defensive errors and game could have been over on the hour mark... And is Walcott even in the top twenty goal scorers in the premiership so far this year?

But Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and numerous media outlets have not only provided evidence of such violations, in some cases personally delivering information to key ministers, but also linked some of these attacks to UK weapons.

But the attacks on him are not motivated by concern for free speech or human rights.

Britain has never been very interested in international affairs, so it will have little notion of the warmth with which an attack on human rights will be received in some of the more questionable capitals of the world.

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta cited the Tory attack on human rights just days before appearing before the International Criminal Court in the Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.

Many of those attacks have been based on Khan's work as a human rights lawyer, when he represented (in his own words) some «pretty unsavoury characters».

Those assembled demanded an immediate halt to American drone attacks in the tribal regions, a severe violation of human rights and international law.

In an unusual move, de Blasio is replacing the head of the city's Commission on Human Rights — one day after getting a strongly worded letter from Public Advocate Letitia James attacking her and demanding she be fired.

To begin, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson, announced in late January the launch of an investigation into the «civilian impact» and «human rights implications» of drone attacks and other targeted killings by the U.S. and other states.

For that decision, President Lincoln came under sustained attacks and media condemnation, as well as litigation, all orchestrated by some American human - rights activist groups and public affairs commentators.

In 2014, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, set up by the United Nations Human Rights Council, said that several other attacks likely involved access to Syrian army chemical stockpiles.

(Note: The UN investigation will examine 25 different cases of drone attacks, not all directed by the U.S.. However, it remains the case that U.S. policy is a main focus of attention, particularly for China, Russia, and Pakistan, the three states that called for the investigation within the Human Rights Council).

Instead, she skated to confirmation on Thursday — her nomination greased by a divided Senate Democratic Caucus, leaders of the minority who opted not to twist arms, and advocacy groups that couldn't mount an effective attack strategy despite what they saw as Haspel's checkered record on human rights.

Already Khan's record both as an MP and as a human rights lawyer have been trawled through for possible lines of attack.

David Cameron in the Sunday Express used it as an excuse to attack the European Union's Human Rights Act, while Tony Blair in the Observer claimed that he'd come up with a solution during his last years in power but it hadn't been implemented once he'd left Downing Street.

Let's remember the roll call of shame - cuts to legal aid, curtailing judicial review, attacks on human rights legislation, making freedom of information request more difficult and legislating for the loathed gagging bill amount to a substantial onslaught on free speech, campaigning and democracy.

Nick Clegg's defence of human rights came after weeks of attack from the prime minister and assorted Conservative backbenchers, as right - wingers sought to use the riots as a trigger to renegotiate European human rights law.

In 2015 he (rightly) attacked Saudi Arabia's human rights record.

In 2016, he attacked Saudi Arabia's war in the Yemen and promised to suspend arms sales to the Saudis and other countries which commit human rights abuses or war crimes.

Hillary Clinton was the keynote speaker at the Human Rights Campaign's national dinner in Washington D.C. last night and took Donald Trump to task over his administration's attacks on LGBTQ people.

Nick Clegg: Jack Straw's attack on the Human Rights Act is sly populism of the worst kind, and in keeping with his party's statist tradition

Rosenthal, who is one of the Legislature's most ardent advocates for animal rights, said the new law will protect humans from attack but also stop the animals from being exploited.

Within days of condemning the «communist regime in Vietnam» for its human rights abuses, an Orange County Republican lawmaker packed his bags for an eight - day junket to China, which is engaging in «the most severe attack on government critics since the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square.»

Human Rights Watch documented a particularly gruesome attack on August 30th in the village of Tula Toli in Maungdaw Township, where the Burmese military separated the men from the women and children and then proceeded to kill, what witnesses say were hundreds of people.

We strongly support the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in calling for a full and transparent investigation in to reports of attacks on Libya citizens.

Hours before Monday's attack, the UN high commissioner for human rights questioned the measures being taken by Egypt's government to combat jihadism.