Sentences with phrase «human rights commissions»

Justice Smith considered the success of Vigna at trial, which exceeded the numerous settlement offers, as well as the malice of Levant in his campaign against the Human Rights Commissions, to award costs on a substantial indemnity basis.

His dominant purpose was to denormalize Human Rights Commissions and the method he used was to attack Vigna's conduct in seeking an adjournment of the Tribunal hearing.

As a result of the Canadian hatespeech law, as well intentioned as it may have been, there has been an avalanche of «human rights» complaints in the Canadian Human Rights Commissions against outspoken critics of radical Islam and their publishers.

[4] Unfortunately, Vigna became part of Levant's campaign to denormalize the Human Rights Commissions when he sought an adjournment of a hearing on the grounds that he was not feeling well stating he was not in a «serene state of mind».

Meetings with the National Assembly and Senate Human Rights Commissions offered a ray of hope to the international delegation as parliamentarians pledged to highlight violations of human rights and address the impunity of officials who are not brought to justice.

The contributors to this volume explain how information systems and data analysis were developed to assist human rights commissions in El Salvador, Haiti, and South Africa.

Firstly, by bearing witness, journalists could hold the state accountable, often by publishing the recommendations of the human rights commissions.

ONE MORE THING: The New York Human Rights Commission is inquiring into The Wing, the women - only club and co-working space that recently raised $ 32 million in funding from WeWork and New Enterprise Associates.

Rosemary Bennett, senior communications officer for the Ontario Human Rights Commission, says that even though the store's new program is voluntary, Whole Foods should tread lightly.

The New York Human Rights Commission is inquiring into The Wing, the women - only club and co-working space that recently raised $ 32 million in funding from WeWork and New Enterprise Associates.

This was supported by findings in the Equality and Human Rights Commission report in 2008 which said that at the current rate of change, it would take more than 70 years to achieve a gender balance in the boardrooms in the UK's largest 100 companies.

Over the last few years Canadian HR Reporter webinars have been recognized as an industry standard and include partnerships with a number of leading organizations including the Human Resources Professionals Association, the Human Resources Institute of Alberta, the Human Resources Association of New Brunswick and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

Police said protesters burnt 25 houses but Dr Ahmad Raza, in - charge of local rescue operations, and the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) put the number at more than 100.

At present, the Equality and Human Rights Commission isn't helping.

The Equal Opportunities Commission (now the Equality and Human Rights Commission, EHR) spent a great deal of your money and mine in telling schools to ban books which showed boys taking the lead or doing adventurous things, on the grounds that such books were «sexist».

(It is important that we are fair, and hope Prof that you also highlight Afriforum's decision to rpeort a middle management official Tshwane to the Human Rights Commission, the official utilised his work email to send his ANC branch correspondence.

11th April THE MULTI-CULTURAL TENSION DEVELOPS The Canadian Human Rights Commission has been investigating the publication of Catholic teaching concerning homosexuality by Catholic Insight as possibly «homophobic».

Human Rights NGOs like the Centre for Governance and Development, Citizens Coalition for Constitutional Change, Human Rights Commission and Mazingira Institute, Law Society and the NGO Council helped to popularize the gospel of accountability as a culture of democracy.

We hope that you find this a worthy cause and join the efforts in creating awareness about the struggle to have human rights defenders partake in the OIC's Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission.

The board of the Human Rights Commission will decide whether to ask the Kentucky Supreme Court to hear the case after reviewing the opinion, Ray Sexton, the agency's executive director, told the Lexington Herald - Leader.

In a two to one decision, a panel of appeals judges affirmed an earlier decision by Judge James Ishmael, who reversed the Lexington Human Rights Commission's 2014 decision that the company violated the city's fairness ordinance.

During my time in El Salvador, Central America (1983 - 86), I was always thunderstruck when, after a group of U.S. visitors had spent a couple of hours listening to the stories of the Mothers of the Disappeared or to officials of the non-governmental Human Rights Commission, at least one earnest soul would take me aside to ask whether «we're going to get a chance to hear the other side of the story.»

From the Bali Declaration, Asian Regional Meeting on Violence Against Women held in Bali, Indonesia, organized by WCC, the Christian Conference of Asia and the Asian Women's Human Rights Commission, 1 - 6 August 1993.

Representing the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC), which initiated the proceedings, Nathalie Lievan QC told a seven - judge panel that existing laws subject women to «inhuman and degrading» treatment.

According to the Kenya National Human Rights Commission, the violence led to more than 600,000 people being made homeless; and more than 1,100 killed.

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 couple sued, and the New Mexico Human Rights Commission found the photographer guilty of discrimination.

When the UN Human Rights Commission was established the next year, Eleanor Roosevelt became its first chair, and the U.S. promptly asked the commission to draft an international bill of rights.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission, told The Telegraph that Christians do face discrimination but that politically motivated faith groups often blow it out of proportion.

Baroness Jane Campbell of Surbiton (disability rights activist, and former Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission), Baroness Grey - Thompson (former Gold - medal paralympian), Lady Finlay of Llandaff (leading palliative care specialist and President of the British Medical Association), and Lord Carlisle of Berriew (one of the UK's top QCs and legal experts) are all either atheist or agnostic, and tend to be in favour of legalised abortion.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has already called for a counter-order.

A modest middle - class home had been converted for use as offices for the Human Rights Commission.

The same month the offices of the Mothers of the Disappeared were bombed and several members of the Non-Governmental Human Rights Commission received death threats.

On a hot, steamy day in June 1987 I made my way to the office of El Salvador's Non-Governmental Human Rights Commission.

Herbert Anaya, president of the Non-Governmental Human Rights Commission, spoke to me that June day about the U.S. war against the poor in his country, about low - intensity conflict, human rights, and human hope.

The document from the Equality and Human Rights Commission follows the European Court of Human Rights judgment in four cases about religious rights in the workplace, one of which found that an employee suffered a breach of her right to religious freedom for being told not to wear a cross at work.

The UN Human Rights Commission is a permanent body of the ECOSOC.

Campaigners say that India's National Human Rights Commission has been «sitting for years» on the plea for better compensation.

(Arguing this, an actively homosexual man recently went to the Human Rights Commission and won the right to donate blood.)

Chief executive Dr David Staples said he had written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission about concerns its members are the victims of gross misrepresentation and discrimination.

Equality and Human Rights Commission (2010) Working Better: Childcare Matters: improving choices and chances for parents and children.

London: Equality and Human Rights Commission.

London: Equalities and Human Rights Commission.

In British Columbia, the British Columbia Human Rights Commission Policy and Procedures Manual protects the rights of female workers who wish to breastfeed.

Report the incident to the Human Rights Commission in your province.

After March 6, the BC Human Rights Commission (as it is now called) applied for intervenor status in the case.

Recently in Montreal, Canada, a young mother was awarded $ 2500 in damages in an out of court settlement, when the Quebec Human Rights Commission ruled that she had been discriminated against when asked to leave a shopping mall for breastfeeding her child.

The law directs the human rights commission to develop and distribute materials that provide information regarding a woman's legal right to breastfeed her child in a place of public accommodation.

With the employer's costs incurred for unemployment insurance, an investigation by the Human Rights Commission, the Department of Labor and / or Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the potential for a private cause of action, it's just not cost effective to deny breastfeeding accommodations.

In this scenario, an employer can expect additional costs related to investigations and complaints under the U.S. Department of Labor, the EEOC and the Human Rights Commission.