Sentences with phrase «human rights challenges»

The end result is a legal system that offers minimal protection to human rights and a system of government that has failed to seriously address the human rights challenges that Indigenous peoples have faced in the past and those which confront them today.

The NT intervention legislation, and other associated measures, raises complex human rights challenges.

Speakers will provide contemporary and historical examples of the ways that sexual and gender minorities have experienced human rights challenges and reflect on the treatment of LGBTI people through legal and social frameworks.

New York, NY About Blog The Center offers classes, conducts research, and carries out projects on current business and human rights challenges.

Their research is based upon the strategic identification of enduring and emerging human rights challenges.

She has co-authored practice notes on the «Prevent Duty» on public bodies in relation to terrorism (see article here); the status of Strasbourg case law; human rights and statutory construction; judicial deference and the margin of appreciation; civil contingencies and emergency powers; dealing with human rights challenges; and terrorism law.

As both employers and service providers, school boards are faced with human rights challenges on a daily basis.

Jonathan has considerable experience of dealing with the full range of health and community care matters, including challenges to service reorganisations and funding decisions, human rights challenges, inter-authority disputes, challenges to the provision of services for adults and children and age assessment cases.

Employers may be faced with the threat of costly civil, criminal or human rights challenges.

A proactive approach not only has the potential to improve workplace engagement and prevent your company from being a public example of why workplace sexual harassment laws are needed, but can help mitigate the threat of costly legal or human rights challenges.

The group says it wants to draw the attention of candidates to crucial national and international human rights challenges that it claims Canada has not been doing enough to meet.

A co-director for the Center for Business and Human Rights at the NYU Stern School of Business, Labowitz studies companies facing significant human rights challenges.

Climate change exacerbates global injustice for present and future generations, and poses one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time.

«Our partnership with Rio Tinto will allow us to engage with important human rights challenges.

Working with experts in the field is an essential part of this and our partnership with the DIHR will provide us with further insight into specific human rights challenges.»

Dominic Raab claims 89 % of successful human rights challenges are based on Article 8.

Show them an idea they aren't aware of, a new connection between science and human rights, or an innovative approach to solving an intractable human rights challenge!

This is a human rights challenge that is just as urgent as those global conflicts that we read about daily.

Transcript of Archbishop Tutu's remarks on climate change: «The destruction of the earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

As an aside, I note that the first major piece of litigation that our new lord chancellor will have to deal with is a human rights challenge to the Criminal Justice Act 1988, s 133.

There has not been a significant human rights challenge to a random testing policy since Irving Pulp (which was not a human rights complaint), and it will be interesting to see whether the Supreme Court's dim view of random testing in a unionized workplace will influence the treatment of such policies in a non-union environment.

R (Syed) v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] EWHC 727 (Admin) Human rights challenge by Al Qaeda terrorist to his prison regime.

R (Turley) v Wandsworth LBC [2017] EWCA Civ 189; [2017] H.L.R. 21; [2017] 2 P. & C.R. DG9: human rights challenge to social housing legislation under Article 14 of the ECHR.

In fact, another human rights challenge is underway in northern Ontario, where chiefs of the Mushkegowuk First Nations are seeking equal policing services.

R (Bozzo) v Secretary of State for Welfare and Pensions [2010] EWHC 3571 (Admin) Human rights challenge to the eligibility rule for community care grants under the Social Fund — the need for a qualifying benefit — where applicant in need but in receipt of contributory - based incapacity benefit — whether incompatible with Article 14 and Article 1 of Protocol 1.

Can Yeginsu, Anthony Jones and Diarmuid Laffan have been instructed by Article 19 in the landmark European Court of Human Rights challenge to travel bans imposed on journalists in Azerbaijan.

An important component of the human rights challenge for twenty first century Australia will be to establish a forum or framework through which genuine partnership can be negotiated between Indigenous peoples and the governments of Australia.

I believe that these principles provide a useful lens through which to look at any human rights challenge confronting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Improving the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is a longstanding human rights challenge for governments in Australia, and a matter of high priority for the Commission.

Not exact matches

«After getting the right talent into the organization,» wrote Gubman, «the second traditional challenge to human resources is to align the workforce with the business -; to constantly build the capacity of the workforce to execute the business plan.»

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

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.

Clark may be challenged by the embarrassment of being defeated by the upstart human rights lawyer and having to lead her party from the visitor's gallery until some Liberal stalwart steps down to create a byelection opportunity for her in a safe seat.

Her own story and refusal to shrink from the public eye challenges preconceptions about sex work: namely, the assumption that those in the sex industry forfeit their right to autonomy and human dignity.

This new program recognizes and supports young Canadians who work in the international arena on the most pressing challenges of this century including political unrest, climate change, human rights and global health pandemics.

There is no doubt that countries Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Nigeria have earned their reputations for having horrible human rights and environmental records, but I have never heard Ethical Oil directly challenge the multinational oil companies that operate in those countries.

The heat of this side of the coin has started reaching another side where startups and SMBs are also facing equal challenges while hunting right human assets and to deliver the quality solution to their clients and users.

If God is as the Calvinist insists, then they are right: we mere humans can not question God's judgment or challenge His choices from eternity past to choose some for redemption and others for reprobation.

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

The author Naomi Wolf, who favors the right to abort, has challenged the feminists whose rhetoric seeks to disguise the truth that a human being is killed by abortion.

«But:» challenges the traditionalist, «as weak and imperfect human beings we are incapable of doing the right thing and living the right way until we have been saved from the power of sin, whether you view this power emanating from within us or from Satan.»

It finally could not, or at least did not, fundamentally challenge the Marxist interpretation of democracy, constitutional government, human rights or economic life.

Civil liberties campaigners have said the scans represent an invasion of privacy and their introduction may yet be challenged by the Human Rights Commission.

The Universal Declaration answers these challenges with a simple, broadly accepted premise: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights» (art. 1).

We need directly to challenge the relentless reduction of the latter to the former, through which, for instance, human consciousness of right and wrong is explained by hormones and genes.

Like the Russian Orthodox Church's 2008 statement on human rights, the Council's documents offer an alternative model, a challenge to the subjective, more or less secular understanding of human rights that most in the West take for granted today.

I divide this discussion into two parts: In the first part I consider and challenge the claims for exception from important international human right standards made in the name of «Asian values».

In practical terms these claims are challenged both by the rapid recent development of democracy and human rights in several East Asian societies and by social activist and scholarly discourses which challenge these claims directly.

We recognize the challenges faced within the supply chain, including ethical sourcing, compliance, advancing human rights and reducing environmental impacts.