Sentences with phrase «human rights coverage»

A media ethnography conducted in Mexico in 2006, before and after the presidential elections, can illuminate what journalists are trying to do in their human rights coverage and how their outlooks and contexts condition the incidents that are covered.

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On April 12, 2018, the Appeal Court disagreed with the Human Rights Board of Inquiry's decision that denial of coverage for the medical marijuana under his health benefits plan was discriminatory in Canadian Elevator Industry Welfare Trust Fund v. Skinner.

Sir: In regard to your fine coverage of the U.S. Olympic boycott, I have one question: In a country founded on freedom, does a President, who is ostensibly a staunch supporter of human rights, have the right to deny athletes the right to pursue a lifelong dream?

For example, referring to human rights infractions during police clashes in the town of Atenco, one journalist claimed, «If there had not been live television coverage or live photographers, I think there would have been more deaths.»

The first of our summer riots coverage to find its way into the top ten is a thoughtful comment piece by a commissioner for the Scottish Human Rights Commission, who urged the government to recognise the disorder as an «exceptional» crime, rather than bog - standard criminality.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, she voted against the repealing of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» legislation, opposed legislation that would grant equal tax treatment for employer - provided health coverage for domestic partners, opposed legislation to grant same - sex partners of U.S. citizens and permanent residents the same immigration benefits of married couples and opposed legislation to permit state Medicaid programs to cover low - income, HIV - positive Americans before they develop AIDS.

Over the years, we have broadened the scope of our coverage to include human rights matters as well, as reflected in this issue of PER.

(See also recent coverage in the Providence Journal of Brown medical students and the Brown Human Rights Asylum Clinic.)

Technologies, such as the Internet and cell phones, next to the traditional and web - based radio and television broadcasting have the potential to inform on specific human rights issues in an immediate and wider coverage all over the world.

But the analysis of coverage as indicator of the human right to water is shown inadequate.

• Ai Weiwei explores human rights and freedom of expression • Social media reaction and coverage of @Large

The three Palestinian artists who did, as well as the Israelis, agreed to participate in the exhibition with the understanding that it was to directly address human rights violations, but after receiving critical pressure from the Arab world (via Facebook), combined with inflammatory coverage from pro-Israeli media, the Palestinian artists were concerned for their safety, and a potential loss of trust in their community once they returned home.

Media have a responsibility to provide coverage of the environmental and human rights battles occurring at Standing Rock.

Section III then critically assesses the coverage of the essential elements clauses, with a specific focus on the conduct that is required from the contracting parties, the «common values» which are included in such clauses and the human rights instruments they refer to.

Through a recent tweet from Omar Ha - Redeye (@OmarHaRedeye), we learned that private member's Bill C - 304, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act (protecting freedom) passed third reading in the House of Commons without much media coverage, public attention or debate from the opposition parties.

The Court also suggested that partnership law and the very idea of partnership have relevance to the coverage of our human rights codes.

(Yes, I appreciate such termination would almost assuredly contravene the provisions of the Human Rights Code, and I do not mean to suggest that such a course of action would be «prudent» from an employment - law perspective, what I intend to do is underline the absurdity of such a course of action as a means of limiting insurance coverage.)

There was cause for concern across the country from employers when early last year a Human Rights Board of Inquiry decided that a health and welfare plan's denial of coverage for medical marijuana was discriminatory in Skinner v Board of Trustees of the Canadian Elevator Industry Welfare Trust Fund, 2017 CanLII 3240 (NS HRC).

Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, and newspapers have that absolute freedom in both their news coverage and editorial comment.

The Commission's Board of Inquiry had to decide whether the Trustees» denial of medical marijuana coverage amounted to unlawful discrimination under the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act and, if so, whether the Trustees had a non-discriminatory justification and could demonstrate accommodation to the point of undue hardship.

Harvard Jean Monnet Table of Contents Service (covers about 101 journals published in nine languages and 14 countries; started in Spring 1999 as a current awareness service mainly covering European Integration journals in the areas of law and human rights; as of February 2000, has extended coverage to economics, history and political sciences journals and called European Integration Current Contents; contents of journals newly arrived at the Harvard Law School and European University Institute (EUI) libraries?

For example, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has dismissed claims of discrimination against the Ontario Drug Benefit Program on the basis that there was no Code - related reason for denying coverage, but rather a dispute over its efficacy and safety as a medical treatment (e.g. Kueber v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2014 HRTO 769).

Our workshops provide an overview of BC's human rights laws, the Tribunal dispute resolution process, and in - depth coverage of a variety of topics including:

There has been a lot of press coverage about claims brought by Iraqis who alleged that their human rights were breached by British soldiers during the Iraq War.

For injured workers, however, even with both the Ontario Human Rights Code and AODA in place, new barriers are being introduced by the WSIB that further hurt injured workers: Deeming is a barrier to employment for injured workers, and by forcing them on to social assistance, is a barrier for others needing to access scarce resources; failure to implement full coverage is a barrier to access disability income support.

In addition to crime - fighting keyboards and cats, recent developments include Ohio's proposed DNA testing and retention law (The StandDown Texas Project has a nice roundup of media coverage) and an update on the status of the Crime and Security Act 2010, which, as Human Rights in Ireland describes, tightens DNA retention requirements in the UK, but only up to a point.

Our 2014 report documenting the abusive use of RCS against journalists received widespread media coverage, and both the Washington Post60 and Human Rights Watch61 corresponded with Hacking Team about our findings, and received specific responses.

In late June 2014, Kane discussed the campaign's concerns over the lack of gender diversity in diplomatic meetings, experts groups, publications, and media coverage relating to autonomous weapons in a meeting with Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams of the Nobel Women's Initiative and campaign coordinator Mary Wareham from Human Rights Watch.

In addition to giving coverage to the top stories of the day, we also bring our readers» attention to policy, politics, legal and human rights stories that get ignored in an infotainment culture driven solely by pageviews.

The need for such comprehensive coverage in a Human Rights Act is demonstrated by examining the work of the Social Justice Commissioner over the past decade.

As Chair, George brought a bipartisan, transparent approach to the position, decreasing property taxes for all three years he was chair, while also helping pass legislation creating the Human Rights Commission, establishing Smoke Free Workplace Laws, passing the Waste Haulers Law, and establishing the first cable TV coverage of Board of Legislators meetings.