Sentences with phrase «human rights culture»

The Australian Government is currently putting in place the structures necessary to build a strong human rights culture.

[21] Pyne, C, What government should do to advance a human rights culture, speech delivered at the University of Western Sydney International Human Rights Education Conference, 5 November 2010.

[14] In response, Australia's Human Rights Framework (the Framework) affirms the importance of fostering a rights respecting culture and recognises that «a human rights culture carries with it responsibilities — not just on government, the Parliament, courts and tribunals but on all members of the community — to recognise and respect the human rights of others».

From a human rights perspective, leadership particularly on the part of governments and the private sector, is regarded as essential to drive the legal and policy changes that can facilitate the development of a human rights culture across society.

When the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) made the rights conferred by the European Convention on Human Rights enforceable in domestic law, many believed that a human rights commission was needed to help develop the «human rights culture» the government wanted.

For example: Human rights — in foreign policy, the UK supported an ally committed to an inadequate concept of the rule of law; domestically, there is widespread uncertainty about the desirability of a human rights culture.

In the 80's when the International Association for the protection of Human Rights was set up, the aim was to educate and spread the Human Rights culture in a country which was a victim itself due to the 1974 military invasion of Cyprus by Turkey.

«This whole health and safety, human rights culture, has infected every part of our life.»

Not exact matches

These individual American attitudes may have changed corporate culture seeing that 89 % of Fortune 500 companies implemented their own policies prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation according to Human Rights Campaign.

At the same time as CJNG's pseudo-insurgency and violence between self - defense groups, the UN Human Rights Council has found that the drug war's disruptions to Mexican society have deepened a culture of lawlessness and impunity.

Through this initiative, post-secondary students and young professionals investigate an issue that matters to the Canada - Asia relationship in terms of politics, diplomacy, economics, education, the environment, culture, human rights, or other area.

Yet persistent and credible reporting on human rights violations continue, particularly in the areas of repression of political dissent, harassment of lawyers and human rights advocates, and suppression of religion and ethnic minority cultures.

Second, concerns about China's political culture / values (especially human rights) and security issues seem to be less of a factor in shaping public hesitancy around a free trade agreement when compared to certain economic considerations.

In the survey, we asked people whether they think human rights should be the Canadian government's top priority in its relationship with China, and whether they agree that Canada, in considering its trade relations, should not engage with a communist country with different values and cultures.

Our behavior in society and how humans judge «right» and «wrong» is based in the culture in which we are raised.

In an editorial provocatively titled «Against Human Rights,» he argues that the concept of human rights has become an ideology that functions, at least in the West, as «an enemy of the responsible exercise of freedom,» indeed a «patron of negative freedom, pushing against demands and obligations arising from our shared culture.&rHuman Rights,» he argues that the concept of human rights has become an ideology that functions, at least in the West, as «an enemy of the responsible exercise of freedom,» indeed a «patron of negative freedom, pushing against demands and obligations arising from our shared culture.&Rights,» he argues that the concept of human rights has become an ideology that functions, at least in the West, as «an enemy of the responsible exercise of freedom,» indeed a «patron of negative freedom, pushing against demands and obligations arising from our shared culture.&rhuman rights has become an ideology that functions, at least in the West, as «an enemy of the responsible exercise of freedom,» indeed a «patron of negative freedom, pushing against demands and obligations arising from our shared culture.&rights has become an ideology that functions, at least in the West, as «an enemy of the responsible exercise of freedom,» indeed a «patron of negative freedom, pushing against demands and obligations arising from our shared culture.»

For human rights future and culture, is there hope or despair?

Respect for human rights requires the protection of the communities and associations by which a culture of human dignity either flourishes or dies.

It's interesting that all humans from all cultures pretty much share the same ideas about what is right and wrong, good and evil.

A global ethic demands that every human being be treated humanely, that a culture of non-violence and respect for life be found, that a culture of solidarity and a just economic order be submitted, that truth and tolerance be instigated and that a culture of equal rights and partnership between men and women be found.

DO N'T think you understand democracy if you think it's only about elections: it's about injecting as much of your religious culture and mindset which excludes freedom of thought, freedom of expression, political and religious pluralism, and human rights.

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.

Our Western culture, in fact, is primarily «left hemispheric» in its application of rational thinking to almost every facet of human existence: science, economics, politics, education, religion, law (the French word for law, droit, comes from «right hand,» the hand that rules and is controlled by the left hemisphere).

Because all human laws, customs, and opinions change from time to time and vary from place to place, we tend to think of right and wrong as relative to the particular culture in which we live.

The resulting stalemate illustrated the ambivalence with which our contemporary legal culture regards the proposition that there exists some objective standard of right and wrong against which human legal standards can be measured.

The first part deals with why the individual's right of freedom to «profess practice and propagate religion», and to convert to another faith and religion inherent in it, is a condition and guardian of all other democratic freedoms and fundamental human rights in State, society and culture.

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

Nevertheless, Mr. Bottum is right about the symbolic power of sacrifice, whether human or animal, to sustain a culture.

fosters an insatiable avarice, generates false values and needs by its global culture, kills humans due to poverty, malnutrition and violence, exploits women and children, denies to many the basic human right to life and the means of living a decent human life.

Since freedom of propagation and conversion involves not only matters of religion, but also of culture and political ideas, any restriction at this point will affect the fundamental rights of the human person in general.

John Paul II wrote in the apostolic exhortation Christifideles Laici: «The common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights — for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture — is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is notdefended with maximum determination.»

It condemns sex - selective abortion and female infanticide, although one wonders exactly why, and exactly how it intends member states to go about addressing what it calls the «root causes of son preference» in benighted native cultures that don't understand all about human rights the way that most EU countries do.

Woodfinden highlights two tenets of modern culture: a moral repugnance for Christianity and a love for human rights.

Right from the beginning of time, people have killed for power, wealth, etc., and a number of human nature motives which is found in all cultures.

In this latter, we are concerned with the fundamental rights of the human person for freedom and equality irrespective of gender, language, culture, race, caste, creed or anything else.

DO N'T think you understand democracy if you think it's only about elections: it's about a culture and mindset which includes freedom of thought, freedom of expression, political and religious pluralism, and human rights.

As the once separate cultures meet and cross-fertilize one another, humankind is beginning to share more and more values — such as the concern for human rights and personal freedom.

In both cases, civil rights could be — and were — denied to homosexuals and black persons because they failed to meet the culture's definition of human «spirit,» meaning a reasonable and sexually self - controlled person.

If you stand for a culture of human rights, you don't want to be a violator of human rights.»

My own lecture was titled «The Right to Belong Where I Come From,» and dealt with the importance of home in the human imagination, the struggle against placelessness in modern culture, and the cultural forces that come to bear on the human consciousness to weaken attachments between person and home place.

In The Daily Mail, Melanie Phillips revealed her disrespect and ignorance for many cultures and groups of people by writing such nonsense as «without the Judeo - Christian heritage there would be no morality and no true human rights,» in a column about Druids.

Taking up the question of architecture, music, sculpture, painting, literature, philosophy, and the artistic life, Christian next refers to George Weigel's book, The Cube and the Cathedral, which uses Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris (representing religious art) and La Grande Arche de la Defense (representing secular art) to ask, Which culture would better protect human rights and the moral foundations of democracy?

Add to this the latter's reluctance to question any aspect of Islamic culture (even though many reform - minded Muslims do); and the idea that Islamophobia is more intense and widespread than Christianophobia (even as human rights organizations document just the reverse), and you begin to understand the depths of the problem.

No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies, is never the rich man, nor the learned man, nor the distinguished man of any sort who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it is all simply the abstract manhood itself of the country, man himself unqualified by convention, the man to whom all these conventional men have been simply introductory, the man who — let me say it — for the first time in human history finding himself in his own right the peer of every other man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far freer and profounder culture of his nature than has ever yet illustrated humanity...

And we preserve the rights of countries to determine their own policies about abortion, so that everyone can work together to build a culture where the dignity of every human being is respected from conception.

It's the religious who try to legislate so that everyone has to share their morality, take away natural human rights, and go around telling people that they are sinners and need to change their wicked ways, thus destroying cultures and traditions and lives.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

Wesley J. Smith, award - winning author and Senior Fellow in Bioethics and Human Rights at the Discovery Institute, is a consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide and for the Center for Bioethics and Culture.

And finally, they are calling for public policies to support such food systems and food cultures, based firmly on the universal right to food and the satisfaction of basic human needs.

thanks for the sensible comment fatboy yep i know i do get that they do nt really mean it, but i just cant come to terms with that, i do nt really expect civilised culture in a sport but generally from the people in the world, yep you are right about the real world, maybe thats the reason it annoys me extremely, i mean look our world is rotten to the core, the human mindset is terrible when it faces danger or problems for himself, and maybe thats the reason i just want football to stay as just as an entertainment industry but when i see that people even here let the words flow in any kind of way just because the are frustrated, i really cant come to terms with it, i really love black humor and some akbs react angrily when some fans tell some wheelchair jokes or for example on the post from admin where one could write jokes about wenger, some were really awesome, but when people cant control their emotion after a game and abuse other people it just irritates me as hell cause i really think that thats one of the big problems in the world..