Sentences with phrase «human rights communities»

Planned Parenthood Global also supports the Kenya Reproductive Health Rights Alliance (RHRA), a group of advocates from the medical, legal, women's rights, and human rights communities.

While the display of human remains in Cambodia — and the exhumation and disposition of remains in other countries — may be contentious, the questions and issues arising from working with atrocity - derived human remains are valuable and must continue to be discussed by the forensic science and human rights communities.

Jessica Wyndham, Interim Director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program (SRHRL) opened the meeting, noting that both the scientific and human rights communities are on alert, evaluating the statements and watching closely the actions of the new US administration in areas including climate change, the environment, health, reproductive rights, and freedom of information and freedom of expression.

Participants will be drawn from the international academic, humanitarian, cultural heritage, crisis mapping, disaster, and human rights communities.

Launched in January 2009, the aim of the Coalition is to facilitate communication and partnerships on human rights within and across the scientific community, and between the scientific and human rights communities.

The Coalition is devoted to facilitating communication and partnerships on human rights within and across scientific communities, and between these and human rights communities.

They are «snippets» of interviews with and presentations by members of the scientific and human rights communities.

The AAAS - Andrew M. Sessler Fund for Science, Education, and Human Rights honors Dr. Sessler's important legacy by supporting a variety of activities aimed at bridging the scientific, engineering and human rights communities; engaging young and aspiring scientists and engineers in human rights; and increasing the capacity of human rights practitioners to integrate scientific methods and technologies in their work.

Although universally recognized, this human right remains largely ignored by governments, as well as the scientific, engineering, health and human rights communities.

But, in the Middle East and around the world, Christians are often targeted for persecution in particularly severe ways, and the human rights community often seems not to notice.

This historical fact and the subsequent success of the Marshall Plan in rebuilding Europe have made the Holocaust a paradigm for the interventionists in some parts of the human rights community and among U.S. policymakers.

A statement spelling out the conditions of the Shiite movement and signed by Ibrahim Musa, President Forum of the Islamic movement said, «While the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has called for the setting up of an impartial and independent Judicial Commission of Inquiry made up of independent persons and members of the international human rights community to unravel the circumstances that led to the pogrom in Zaria and its environs, it believes that the events of December 12, 2015 that led to the massacre of its members, the maiming of hundreds, the detention of its cadres and destruction of its properties are premeditated and that the Federal and Kaduna State Government are in a face saving measure regarding the gross human rights violations that it deliberately perpetrated.

A group of collaborating scientists and representatives of human right organizations prepared these guidelines as part of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition's Working Group on Service to the Human Rights Community.

The Steering Committee ensures implementation of decisions taken by the Coalition Council; provides guidance to the project teams; and serves as the liaison between AAAS, the Coalition, scientific associations, and the human rights community.

Members interested in this area of work aim to expand the impact of the Coalition's work by growing the Coalition membership and building bridges with scientific, engineering, and health professionals as well as the human rights community.

The AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program serves as the Secretariat and supports the Coalition through the facilitation and coordination of its activities; organization of meetings; maintenance of a repository for Coalition documents and materials; facilitation of links with the human rights community; coordination of the listserv; recruitment of qualified interns; and fundraising.

The needs of the human rights community, however, are immense.

Bioethics, health law, and human rights are all members of a globalized human rights community that takes individual rights, the right to health, and the public's health as core concerns.

Since the launch of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition in 2009, this growing network of science and engineering associations has collaborated to build bridges between science and technology organizations and the human rights community.

For the human rights community, geospatial technologies can provide documentation to strengthen human rights campaigns and legal cases.

The case studies are intended to support efforts within the human rights community to explore and tackle M&E challenges by providing concrete examples and transferable lessons about how to integrate M&E in useful ways.

These working groups are: Welfare of Scientists, Science Ethics and Human Rights, Service to the Scientific Community, Service to the Human Rights Community, and Education and Information Resources.

Numerous well - established and long term institutional programs exist which are of interest to the geospatial technologies and human rights community.

This information will contribute to the efforts of the Service to the Human Rights Community Working Group, which plans to develop indicators for measuring government compliance with its obligation to ensure the right to the benefits of scientific progress is realized.

While the ongoing costs of impunity in the Ayotzinapa case are unclear, the work of the international human rights community over the last two years has changed how we understand possibilities of international pressure.

For 2018, the Day of the Endangered Lawyer is focused on Egypt, in light of widespread credible reports from human rights organisations that Egyptian authorities are «rapidly taking concrete steps to shut down the last critical voices in the country's human rights community.»

The jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee, including recent examination of Australia's performance, shows that the international human rights community expects that Australia will implement its obligations to its Indigenous peoples under the instruments in good faith.

Not exact matches

Without minimizing the human - rights struggles of the LGBT community, being CEO of Apple puts you under a tremendous amount of scrutiny, criticism, abuse, threats and pressure.

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.»

Meicun Weng, the founder of Chinese community and news site Boxun (which regularly reports on Chinese human - rights abuses and is blocked in China), drives home the point about how the Chinese government wields influence with its economic power.

In the area of Human Rights, Equity and Diversity (HRED) he guides national strategies on Diversity and Inclusion, Temporary Foreign Workers (migrant workers), Racialized, Aboriginal, Immigrant, LGBT, and other equity seeking communities, with a view to qualitative and quantitative organizational growth.

The organizers were mostly groups working for gay rights — Equality Florida, Human Rights Campaign, the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida, Come Out With Pride and a half - dozen orights — Equality Florida, Human Rights Campaign, the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida, Come Out With Pride and a half - dozen oRights Campaign, the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida, Come Out With Pride and a half - dozen others.

For those who are part of vulnerable communities, including journalists, sexual minorities, and human rights activists, location data tracking can also result in physical harm.

The Roundtables provided opportunities for feedback and discussion with stakeholders in the Asia - Pacific community (Vancouver); the business community (Toronto); and the policy community (Ottawa) on the results of a seven - year policy research program on coordinating trade policy and human rights.

Policy initiatives on transparency and government accountability, along with formal (albeit belated) responses to injustices in Wukan and other rural communities indicate a willingness to redress human rights issues involving abuses of political authority.

The organizations sent a joint letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland outlining their shared principles and priorities for a new trade model rooted in principles of equity, the primacy of human rights — including the rights of Indigenous peoples, women and girls, workers, migrants, farmers, and communities — and social and ecological justice.

«Neither the NDP or Alberta's LGBTQ community consider a compromise on the fundamental human rights of the LGBTQ community a victory.»

Beginning in 2003, the Division of Corporate Finance too often has issued no - action letters omitting shareholder proposals that ask management to undertake a risk assessment or review the financial implications of an array of environmental, community, public health and human rights concerns and issues.

The CORE will investigate allegations of human rights abuses linked to Canadian corporate activity abroad, and will seek to assist wherever possible in collaboratively resolving disputes or conflicts between impacted communities and Canadian companies.

This includes recent legislation that discriminates against the LGBT community, as stated in a recent letter released by the Human Rights Campaign and Equality North Carolina and signed by numerous CEOs, including Howard Schultz.

Between protecting human rights and punishing violators, it is punishment towards which the international community has marshaled its greatest reformist energies.

«We call upon the international community to hold the Sudanese authorities to account for the safety of these human rights defenders.

It should not be surprising, then, that the answers now supplied by the international community — United Nations officials, human - rights activists, international lawyers, and global diplomats — sound theological while they do not explicitly assert a theology.

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.»

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

As human rights lawyers, independent writers, journalists, and Tiananmen survivors joined us aboard our vessel, our community of faith also became a thorn in the regime's side.

Surprisingly, many progressive Reform Rabbis have expressed public support for the Christian Zionists and the Christian right, knowing full well that the Christian right's theological and political agendas are contrary to the Reform Jewish community's longstanding progressive stance on civil liberties and human rights.

The concept of international human rights from which no country is exempt is consonant with the idea that Shari'a, the large body of legal tradition that informs the Muslim community about how God requires it to live, is in some sense the rule of God.

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

He pointed out that the human rights ordinance «had brought the community's conservative churches face to face with the problem of homosexuality for the first time.»