Sentences with phrase «human rights expert»

The speeches coincide with the findings of a United Nations human rights expert, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous people, Victoria Tauli - Corpuz, that Australia has failed to respect the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to self - determination and to full and effective participation in society.

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A bit of background: The Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions is an independent human rights expert appointed by the United Nations with a mandate to respond effectively to cases of extrajudicial killings around the world.

He served as a human rights expert on the 2005 US Congressional Task Force on the United Nations and as an informal advisor to Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development.

The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilities in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China.

GENEVA U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders who meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un in the next few weeks must not neglect human rights, the U.N.'s North Korea human rights expert said in a statement on Wednesday.

These facts aren't exactly news, but this report, which was produced by human rights experts at Stanford and NYU, gives a voice to the people actually affected by drone strikes in Pakistan.

Meanwhile, United Nations human rights experts have issued a statement, urging Iran to ensure «a fair and transparent final hearing» for three Iranian Christians who have been sentenced for «conducting evangelism» and «illegal house church activities,» among other charges.

«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).

United Nations human rights experts have called upon the US government and political leaders to «unequivocally and unconditionally» reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes.

The human rights experts said though some local and national figures, as well as some media representatives had publicly denounced any form of hate speech and incitement, other officials still needed to follow suit.

The event will feature medical, public health and human rights experts looking to offer an open and honest conversation about the effects of the virus in Africa and the current climate in our own communities, while providing facts about Ebola that can save lives.

Wasunna discusses proposed guidelines by a group of medical ethicists, human rights experts, and health practitioners, to address these problem in the medical profession.

In the series, hear interviews with scientists and human rights experts about whether there is, or ought to be, a human right to access information and knowledge.

In the light of recent revelations around the National Security Agency PRISM program, a panel of journalists, civil libertarians and human rights experts will present the long history of domestic spying by government agencies, private sector cooperation, and the legal, ethical and business challenges of defending and preserving liberty and constitutionality in cyberspace.

Designations are made without consultation with regional human rights experts.

The UN's Fifth Committee will decide how much money is provided to finance the work of human rights experts who investigate human rights violations in Burundi, Iran, Syria, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Belarus as well as violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans persons.

(New York) States including China, Russia, Israel and Belarus are expected to attempt to block the funding of key UN human rights experts today, through a resolution at the General Assembly committee which deals with finance and budgetary issues.

And a growing list of UN human rights experts and monitoring bodies have repeatedly made clear that this alarming human rights failing needs to be resolved.

That process is expected to include online and face - to - face meetings with British Columbians, stakeholders and human rights experts, «and will seek to learn what a renewed human rights commission could look like.»

On November 9, 2006, human rights experts from many countries met in Yogyakarkta, Indonesia to address the abuse of human rights of LBGT people around the world, and adopted what is known as the Yogyarkata Principles (Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity).

Representation of 17 international jurists and human rights experts as amici curiae: Sosa v. Alvarez - Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004)

According to the government, «the consultation process will include both online and face - to - face meetings with British Columbians, stakeholders and human rights experts, and will seek to learn what a renewed human rights commission could look like.

Dec. 3 - 5: Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights experts meeting in Divonne, Switzerland on armed drones and robots

Human rights experts for the U.N. have cited hate speech on Facebook as a means by which people have proliferated anti-Rohingya propaganda, worsening the divide between the two religious groups.

This has been highlighted by both human rights experts like the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous peoples rights [15] and in the report reviewing the Intervention [16] as the crucial link missing from the Intervention for it to meets its policy goals.

The General Assembly is the home of Nation - States and their governments, not of academics nor human rights experts.

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The Economist spoke with Jo Becker, a children's rights expert at New York's Human Rights rights expert at New York's Human Rights Rights Watch.

U.N. experts in Geneva were at it again last week telling the Holy See that Catholic teaching on abortion is a human rights abuse, revealing a chasm between the Church's understanding of its mission and how U.N. officials perceive it.

That, or something very like it, is certainly the conclusion that Aidan O'Neill QC - described in a Telegraph report as an expert on religious freedom and human rights - appears to have come to.

Christian legal group ADF International has filed an expert brief with the European Court of Human Rights in support of the man known as A.A. (anonymised for security reasons).

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 aborights 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 aboRights 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.

Early in 2001 an international commission of experts submitted a policy paper to the UN titled «The Responsibility to Protect,» which made the case for international intervention in cases of human rights violations and humanitarian emergencies.

Will we enter into the shining future of a prosperous, globalized world without borders, managed by experts and guided by the high ideals of human rights?

To judge the prize, the Council will be joined by leading experts in related disciplines, including US food scientist and writer Harold McGee; Massimo Montanari, a professor of Medieval History at Bologna University and one of the leading world experts in Food Studies; renowned novelist Laura Esquivel; and Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Legislation and government should not have the authority to breach human rights — particularly in the face of obstetric experts who know better and, even more importantly, in the face of a woman and her family who have made an informed decision on how and where they want their baby to be born.

Recently, a group of UN experts, among whom the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health and the Committee on the Rights of the Child, have reiterated that these obligations, including protection against misleading marketing, constitute an integral part of States» human rights obligaRights of the Child, have reiterated that these obligations, including protection against misleading marketing, constitute an integral part of States» human rights obligarights obligations.

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Breastfeeding a matter of human rights, say UN experts, urging action on formula milk GENEVA (22 November 2016)-- Breastfeeding is a human rights issue for babies and mothers and should be protected and promoted for the benefit of both,...

Trump's stance has strained previously good US - Mexican relations, said Maureen Meyer, an expert at the Washington Office on Latin America, a US human rights advocacy organization.

The United Nations has published an expert consensus interpretation on how several United Nations human rights instruments protect LGBT persons: it is called the Yogyakarta Principles.

Both the United Nations Panel of Experts and Human Rights Watch have alleged that the Rwandan government is aiding and abetting this rebellion, if not actually directing it.

Dr. Pogge is a renowned expert on poverty and human rights, Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University.

Until the early 2000s, the Audit was based at the Human Rights Centre, at the University of Essex, but scholars and experts from all over Britain and the world have long worked with us on our projects and reports.

The Home Office insists the situation in Mogadishu has improved sufficiently for deportations to be resumed, but this has been flatly contradicted by security experts and human rights groups.

Professor Jim Al - Khalili, President of the BHA Phillip Pullman, author Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster Tim Minchin, musician and writer Dr Simon Singh, science writer Ken Follett, novelist Dr Adam Rutherford, broadcaster and science writer Sir John Sulston FRS, Nobel Prize winning scientist Sir David Smith FRS FRSE, eminent botanist Professor Jonathan Glover, philosopher Professor Anthony Grayling, philosopher Nick Ross, broadcaster CJ De Mooi, actor and professional quizzer Virginia Ironside, writer Professor Steven Rose, scientist and writer Natalie Haynes, comedian and writer Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner Professor Raymond Tallis FMedSci, physician, philosopher and author Dr Iolo ap Gwynn FRMS, scientist and mountaineer Stephen Volk, screenwriter and author Professor Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics, science writer and broadcaster Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, Fantasy fiction author, satirist Dr Evan Harris, Former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the BHA Dr Richard Bartle, Professor of Computer Game Design Sian Berry, Green campaigner, politician and author Professor John A Lee, Consultant Histopathologist and Professor of Pathology Professor Richard Norman, philosopher Zoe Margolis, author Joan Smith, journalist and author Michael Gore, CVO CBE Derek McAuley, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches Lorraine Barratt, former member of the Welsh Assembly Dr Susan Blackmore, writer and broadcaster Dr Harry Stopes - Roe, Vice President of the BHA Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC (Hon), human rights lawyer Adele Anderson, actor and singer Dr Helena Cronin, Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science Professor Alice Roberts, Anatomist, author and broadcaster Professor Chris French, Professor of Psychology, editor of The Skeptic Sir Tom Blundell, scientist Maureen Duffy, poet, playwright and novelist Baroness Whitaker, Labour peer Lord Avebury, Liberal Democrat peer Richard Herring, writer and comedian Martin Rowson, writer and cartoonist Tony Hawks, comedian, writer, musician and philanthropist Peter Cave, philosopher and author Diane Munday, campaigner Professor Norman MacLean, Biologist Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS, Nobel prize winner, Professor of Chemistry Sir Richard Dalton, former Diplomat Sir David Blatherwick, KCMG, OBE, Diplomat and writer Michael Rubenstein, writer and legal expert Polly Toynbee, columnist and broadcaster Lord O'Neill, labour peer

David Davis told the Sunday Politics» Giles Dilnot that the aim of a British Bill of Rights was not to dilute fundamental human rights but simply to bring oversight of human rights «back home» - under the purview of British politicians and expert British jRights was not to dilute fundamental human rights but simply to bring oversight of human rights «back home» - under the purview of British politicians and expert British jrights but simply to bring oversight of human rights «back home» - under the purview of British politicians and expert British jrights «back home» - under the purview of British politicians and expert British judges.

A UN Human Rights and Poverty expert, Philip Alston, has tasked the government of Ghana to address issues pertaining to...

Also, in January 2012, they published another report by their head of research Robert Broadhurst which claimed that the UK loses three quarters of its human rights cases in the European courts, which was covered widely in the tabloids but dismissed by experts as «misleading» (the real figure is closer to one out of 50).

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.»