Sentences with phrase «human rights first»

Check the websites of non-government organizations (NGOs) such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (International Justice), Human Rights First, Lawyers Collective, etc..

Mr. Greathead is well - known as an international human rights advocate and a founder of several prominent public interest organizations, including New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Human Rights First.

She has taught at Columbia Law School and Columbia University and has interned with the International Refugee Program at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First) and with the Palestinian Ministry of Economy and Trade.

Human Rights First achieves this goal by partnering with pro bono lawyers to help their clients access legal safeguards in the United States.

Eleanor Acer is the director of Human Rights First's Refugee Protection program where she oversees Human Rights First's pro...

Eleanor Acer is the director of Human Rights First's Refugee Protection program where she oversees Human Rights First's pro bono representation program and advocacy on issues relating to refugee protection, asylum, and migrants» rights.

Neel also interned with the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice and with Human Rights First as a Ford Foundation Public Interest Fellow.

He previously served as Chair of the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights (now Human Rights First).

The supreme court resignations would be triggered by a new mandatory retirement age of 65 that would apply absent special permission by the president, according to Human Rights First.

At Human Rights First, he helped the organization earn a reputation for leadership in the areas of refugee protection, advancing a rights - based approach to national security, challenging crimes against humanity, and combating discrimination.

Before joining Human Rights First, Mr. Posner was a lawyer with Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago.

Prior to joining State Department, Mr. Posner was the Executive Director and then President of Human Rights First.

When defenders are imprisoned, threatened, or at imminent risk, Human Rights First uses its access to high - level government officials and the media to galvanize quick action on the defender's behalf.

Neil Hicks, Human Rights First

Have either of you read any reports from organizations like Freedom House, Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch, or Amnesty International about the human rights situation in Cuba?»

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent the first years of his mandate shunning China on human - rights grounds, but as the global economy has shifted he has become «Mr. Panda Man» — a reference to the PM's fawning over two cuddly Chinese ambassadors.

In 2000, Estonia became the first country in the world to declare Internet access a basic human right — much like food and shelter.

Sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation, PutinCon was the first event of its kind — a meeting of dissidents and journalists; of people who've been robbed by the Kremlin; of former soldiers who've seen too much; of prosecutors and politicians who know too much; of Russians and Europeans and Americans (North and South) who had enough of Putin's interference and violence.

The nature of the human being is that when you turn the page, you automatically glance at the right - facing page first.

It was, ironically, the ghastly violence and horrible human toll of the World War I that first inspired such assertive calls, calls that characterized gay rights movements around the world in the 20th century.

Venter, who created the first synthetic human cell back in 2010, feels the FDA hasn't found a way to serve the public in regard to genome data regulation — it barred 23andMe from offering genetic - risk assessments in 2013 before later reinstating the right to offer limited genetic reports.

Apple has been given top marks by gay rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign in its annual every year since 2002 when it first rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign in its annual every year since 2002 when it first Rights Campaign in its annual every year since 2002 when it first began.

In a written statement, the Human Rights Campaign president said Cook expressed support for the three - state campaign when he first learned about it.

Petz offers plenty of caveats about this one — consult your human resources department first, for one — but with the right group of people, this can add some fun to the day.

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.»

First Cobalt says the acquisition will help it position itself as a North American - focused cobalt company, as buyers of the metal look to diversify from a widespread reliance on production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where human rights groups have raised concerns of child labour in mining operations.

Right now, for the first time in human history, world currencies are free - floating, meaning they're not backed by anything tangible.

Last year, SNC - Lavalin defended the prison project, telling The Globe and Mail that the prison would be «the country's first to be built according to international human rights standards.»

He has been honored with the National Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign after becoming the first CEO of a major company to come out as openly gay.

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Feelings run high, for example, around a key Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling last year, which found that the federal government discriminates against First Nations children by underfunding family services.

The report is yet another call to action for Canada to work with First Nations as partners to realize our human rights, including our Aboriginal and Treaty rights.»

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

«Today's report shows that we need action now on our collective agenda for closing the human rights gap,» said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde.

Regarding human rights, «religious investors are newly asking for an end to fees levied on migrant tobacco workers — although the voting outlook is uncertain — while three proposals on a set of fair employment principles for Israel - Palestine will go to votes for the first time.»

Former California governor and Terminator movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger says he plans to sue the big oil companies for «first degree murder», likening their actions to those of tobacco companies, and NGOs are suing Big Oil in the Philippines for violating the human rights of typhoon victims.

RBC's Canadian and North American business strategy is founded on building strong and lasting relationships with our clients - «earning the right to be our clients» first choice» - and human capital is our greatest asset in making this happen.

This is not the first time that aid from abroad has rankled the human - rights groups that campaign against forced labour in the cotton fields.

Mexico - Daniela Rea, a Mexican journalist known for her searing chronicles of the violence gripping her country, was awarded the first edition of the Breach - Valdez Prize in journalism and human rights on Thursday.

Our first woman Premier, young, a human rights lawyer with international experience, and yet a reputation for sternness when needed.

VICTORIA — New Democrat spokesperson for aboriginal relations and reconciliation, Scott Fraser, and New Democrat children and families spokesperson, Doug Donaldson, welcomed this week's decision by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that the federal government discriminates against First Nation children...

First, he would have to have existed, then be reborn as a human, then killed as a human to pay some ransom price he set on our heads for the sin of eating his fruit from the tree he happened to plant right next to the hungry humans he just made.

if the first pair would nothave sinned they would still be here and all human kind would know is the ways of almighty God and existing on a paradise earth — wich still is comming.the reason he didn't destroy Satan immediately is because he posed a Question as to almighty Gods right to sovereignty..

a universalistic millennial civil religion, the meddlesome vision of democracy, peace, and human rights that we live under today, «the first global civil religion.»

Ventor just created the first «artificial» life, that's right humans now have the ability to produce life.

Those questions involve the nature of the PRC regime; the doctrine and canon law of the Church; the impact of such an agreement on Vatican diplomacy in promoting human rights; and the Church's twenty - first - century mission in China.

@whippstippler7 You have to ask the right question first: can God order you kill another human now?

So much, in fact, that First Things editor R. R. Reno announced in the May 2016 issue that he has become increasingly opposed to human rights and pledged that «First Things will never call for dialogue.»

The throw - weight of the Holy See, the papacy, and the Catholic Church in twenty - first - century world affairs reflects the perception that the Church has become the world's preeminent institutional defender of basic human rights — and thus the greatest bulwark, among the great world religions, to the freedom project around the globe.

And in reducing freedom of religion to «freedom of worship» in its political and diplomatic pronouncements, the United States can no longer invoke the First Amendment and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, thus weakening its ability to combat the international movement to criminalize religious speech.