At the same time, it kept silence about numerous acts of religiously motivated violence, which the recent report by the Brussels - based International Partnership for
Human Rights called «crimes against humanity.»
Physicians for
Human Rights Call for Letters on Behalf of Turkish doctor and human rights defender Şebnem Korur Fincancı June 22, 2016
Not exact matches
Records suggest that one official made a «courtesy
call» to Eritrea's permanent representative to the UN about the country's poor
human rights record.
Bede Sheppard of
Human Rights Watch calls Malala a «radiant example that children can be intelligent and savvy advocates for their own rights.&
Rights Watch
calls Malala a «radiant example that children can be intelligent and savvy advocates for their own
rights.&
rights.»
«The
human brain is divided into two hemispheres, the left and
right, connected by a bundle of nerve fibers
called the corpus callosum.
It was, ironically, the ghastly violence and horrible
human toll of the World War I that first inspired such assertive
calls,
calls that characterized gay
rights movements around the world in the 20th century.
«Nearly one in five job ads for China's 2018 national civil service
called for «men only» or «men preferred,» while major companies like Alibaba have published recruitment ads promising applicants «beautiful girls» as co-workers,» Sophie Richardson, China director at
Human Rights Watch, said.
The amount of Cook's contribution to the Washington - based
Human Rights Campaign wasn't disclosed, but the advocacy organization
called it «substantial.»
Their «No Ceilings Full Participation Report» identifies the significant gains women have made and the challenges that remain in the 20 years since the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing — where then - first lady Clinton
called on the international community to ensure «women's
rights are
human rights.»
Chinese state media also praised May for her wisdom and pragmatism in sidestepping
calls to challenge Beijing over issues of
human rights and Hong Kong's sovereignty.
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.
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.»
He has said that Facebook's systems prevented hate speech and genocide in Burma, and
human rights groups
called him a liar.
Indigenous peoples and
human rights groups say that a new United Nations report on Canada's
human rights record should be a wake - up
call for all Canadians.
The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of
humans as a property
right — were set out in an infamous document
called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.
Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, has emerged as a prominent critic of Facebook's approach to making money from user data,
calling user privacy a «
human right.»
In our engagement with China in Canada, respecting Canada's sovereignty and traditions is no less essential and
calls us to uphold principles of intellectual freedom, civil society, and
human rights through enforcement of our legal and regulatory standards.
May 26 and 27, 2017 at the Palacio de Minería, Calle Tacuba 5 in the Historic Centre of Mexico City «We
call on social movements, trade unions, farmers, indigenous nations, migrants, environmentalists,
human rights groups and all other interested sectors / organizations from Mexico, United States and Canada to come together to strengthen trinational work in the -LSB-...]
Political Life and
Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is
right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a
call to an end to be gradually realized.»
God has the
right to «kill» every
human being, but a lousy criminal
called Muhammad, never had got this
right.
«We
call upon the international community to hold the Sudanese authorities to account for the safety of these
human rights defenders.
The president's 2009 Cairo Speech, for example, eloquently
called for
human rights but lacked any plan to actualize its words.
Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while
calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of
human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....
Word of the sentences came from an Iranian - based group
called the Committee of
Human Rights Defenders, according to Diane Ala'i, another Baha'i U.N representative.
I agree with L.Nielsen's sentiment that you are «almost there» — close to realising that this is the only life you have and that all your effort should be directed at living it well for it's own sake, close to realising that you are strong enough as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you
call god, close to realising that you are a good
human being in your own
right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.
«It is a source of great concern to us and we are
calling on the government to immediately release all these
human rights activists and religious leaders.»
• Note this, from the announcement of a press
call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference
call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and
human right.»
So much, in fact, that First Things editor R. R. Reno announced in the May 2016 issue that he has become increasingly opposed to
human rights and pledged that «First Things will never
call for dialogue.»
So, legitimate protest against a a regime known for
human rights abuses, but never
called out on it by the capitalistic west, is «causing unrest?»
Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the
human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population
calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.
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.
But consider the demands for fair and equitable
human rights that he
called for 50 years...
It reshaped Catholic teaching on
human rights and made an impassioned
call for peace amid the Cold War.
Professor MacKinnon is quite
right to draw attention to the fact that here is a very large and most important sphere of
human life which lay beyond the range of experience dictated by Jesus» particular
calling.
While it seems tedious, the U.S. State Department constantly
calls out and pressures China to crackdown on
Human Rights violations in exchange for normal trade relations.
On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based,
human rights and civil
rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates,
called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.
But if you insist then I would say, Lahwla Walaqwa Alla Bilah, and then thank you for helping me to know and understand that those things you
call for are not possible and all just ink on paper, unreal and just was and is being used for what is
called propaganda and that all we will harvest being over here are flags in the name of practicing your
human rights or your freedom of speech.
Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they
called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow
human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and
right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.
Only a God who in some way transcends the world, who has special care for the downtrodden, who
calls humans (if among the oppressors) to practice justice, and who
calls humans (if among the oppressed) to demand their
rights — only this God can or will say no to oppression and invite others to do as well.
I will
call these formative
rights the
rights to private liberties, where the term «private» means here that the freedoms in question can be defined without any explicit reference to
human association.
We realize that those who have been
called «slaves» are
human beings with integrity of their own, and that they have
rights of their own, including the
right not to be enslaved.
«We condemn Iran's continued violation of the universal
right of freedom of religion and we
call on the Iranian authorities to respect Mr. Abedini's
human rights and release him,» U.S. State Department spokesman Darby Holladay said in written statement.
Like so many prisoners before him, Sharansky discovered personally what Jefferson meant by
calling human rights «unalienable.»
Following Apel, I will use the term «communicative
rights» to designate the formative
rights that belong to all
humans as potential participants in moral discourse, and I will
call the formative principle in question the principle of communicative respect.
In what
human rights activists have
called a backwards step for internet freedom, Judge Hassouna Tawfiq ordered the government to block access to the video - sharing website for 30 days after the trailer for Innocence of Muslims sparked outrage.
Jeremiah was known by God before he was born that he is gonna be a Prophet, God blesses even the unborn children, but when a parent slaughters a child we
call it a crime and when she aborts a baby we
call it
human right.
This Vienna Declaration, as it is also
called, is a grievously flawed document that compares unfavorably not only with the U.S. Bill of
Rights but with the UN's own Universal Declaration of
Human Rights of 1948.
In the forthcoming Victories of Reason he will go even further, contending that the most significant advances in knowledge, liberty,
human rights and material well - being — what we like to
call progress — stem not from Greece or the Enlightenment or modernity but from Christianity itself.
But when the older thinkers
called the Law of
Right and Wrong «the Law of Nature,» they really meant the Law of
Human Nature.
And, again like John Paul II, Reagan understood that the Soviet Union was ideologically vulnerable: that a steady, fact - based, morally - driven critique of communism's abominable
human rights record would rattle the men in Moscow, expose cracks in the Soviet system, encourage brave dissidents to exploit those cracks, and hasten the end of what Reagan
called, perhaps undiplomatically but certainly truthfully, an «Evil Empire.»