Sentences with phrase «human rights leaders»

In addition, public servants who manage and implement Indigenous health programs are often underprepared for dealing with issues of cross-cultural engagement involved in program delivery.6 The frustration of Indigenous Australians with the deficient overall strategic view is evidenced by recent calls from Indigenous health and human rights leaders for a national commitment to achieving health equality within 25 years.13

Proceeds from this year's auction will go to the RFK Center for Justice & Human Rights, a charity that «strives to achieve Robert Kennedy's vision of a just and peaceful world by partnering with human rights leaders, teaching social justice and advancing corporate responsibility.

Law school faculty and students will collaborate with scholars in other disciplines from across the UCLA campus, and the institute will train the next generation of human rights leaders and develop strategies to address crises around the globe.

Two officials with the Center for Constitutional Rights say that on Sunday they were interrogated and denied entry into Israel for a fact - finding tour with U.S. human rights leaders.

Coalition meetings convene scientists, engineers, and health professionals with human rights leaders and policy makers to discuss emerging issues at the nexus of science and human rights.

Since the launch of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition in January 2009, Coalition meetings have convened scientists, engineers, and health professionals with human rights leaders and policy makers to discuss emerging issues at the nexus of science and human rights.

The second key suggestion is that only businesses which are human rights leaders should receive government support to invest overseas.

These lawyers, pastors, journalists, and human rights leaders across China are trying out the strategies of the historic American civil rights movement, using litigation, media publicity, and nonviolent protests.

This year, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery proudly presented Barbara Chase - Riboud — Malcolm X: Complete, an exhibition celebrating her now complete series of monumental bronze and fiber sculptures that the artist has created over the last half - century in honor of the slain human rights leader.

(New York — August 31, 2017) Michael Rosenfeld Gallery proudly presents Barbara Chase - Riboud — Malcolm X: Complete, an exhibition celebrating her now complete series of monumental bronze and fiber sculptures that the artist has created over the last half - century in honor of the slain human rights leader.

Inspired by a sense of global struggle against systems of oppression and the political rhetoric of Malcolm X, Chase - Riboud produced her first bronze and fabric sculpture in tribute to the slain human rights leader.

Currently on view, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents Barbara Chase - Riboud — Malcolm X: Complete, an exhibition celebrating her now complete series of monumental bronze and fiber sculptures, created over the last half - century in honor of the slain human rights leader.

In 2009, Canada's image as a human rights leader was severely undermined with the «detainee controversy» when the Canadian military transferred over 1,000 «Taliban» prisoners (2001 - 2011) to Afgan prisons to be subjected to abuse and torture.

Not exact matches

The declaration signed at the historic summit between the leaders of the two Koreas also did not mention several issues that have been prominent in the past, including human rights in North Korea and joint economic projects.

During his tenure, embassy officials «advanced American values» by meeting with religious leaders and human rights lawyers and visiting Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang, Locke said.

International Korean leaders agree to «complete denuclearization» goal, The Guardian UN human rights chief decries Israel's excessive use of force in Gaza, Reuters

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.

«We urge all Canadians to read the Committee's report and to join us in demanding that federal and provincial leaders make a clear commitment to implementing these urgently needed measures that respect and protect human rights in Canada.»

Founded by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 1997, the organization trains and mentors women leaders as agents of transformative change in economic development, human rights and political participation.

Ma, a former teacher, says he always warns government leaders to also «pay attention to education,» because right now we're teaching children the wrong thing: that machines are better than humans.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

Opposition leaders and human rights groups have accused the PAP of gerrymandering and demanded more transparency in the boundary changes of constituencies.

2006 — Sheila Watt - Cloutier, an Inuit leader, environmental and human rights activist and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

All we do is discount the idea that there is some deity out there with all the right answers for every single human, and that some writings or leaders here on earth somehow convey those answers.

«It is a source of great concern to us and we are calling on the government to immediately release all these human rights activists and religious leaders.»

• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»

Noting that two generations of Catholic leaders, including popes, have regarded human rights as important for the building of humane societies and have employed rights discourse themselves as a «bridge language» supporting the protection of human dignity, Reno declares that it is time for the Catholic Church «to rethink its enthusiasm for human rights.»

The proper course, it seems to me, is for church leaders and people of good will to make every effort to connect the human - rights project to an affirmation of the essential interplay between individual rights and democratic values.

I see no reason why church leaders should cease promoting Christian understandings of human rights in public settings as a way of promoting justice, morality, and the common good.

As a world leader for freedom and the protection of basic human rights, the United States should take every opportunity to advocate for people — including Americans here at home — to think, believe, and act according to their religious belief whether they belong to a minority or majority religion in their nation.»

The two churches aren't alone: dozens of Christian leaders have complained that even though they fulfill the requirements, the government has denied them permits, according to Human Rights Watch World Report.

Let me wind up with the need for NGO Ombudsmen armed with legal powers to take action wherever human rights are vulnerable and violated and also to recommend cancellation of treaties entered into with oblique motives by suspect national leaders.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

Benedict Rogers, East Asia team leader at religious freedom charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) said the vote is an «extremely significant development, which will in all likelihood mean a continuing crackdown on human rights generally, and religious freedom in particular».

By taking the side of the Algerian generals, western leaders had shown that they defended democracy and human rights only when it suited their cause.

Fairness for All proponents have one state - level precedent on their side: the curious case of how conservative Utah was able to pass a comprehensive antidiscrimination measure endorsed by Mormon leaders and cheered on by LGBT groups like the Human Rights Campaign.

We need to pray that this terrible event will draw the attention of world leaders to focus more on human rights and religious persecution in Egypt.

[T] he exposure of persistent human rights violations by the contras has led the Administration not to pressure contra leaders to enforce international codes of conduct,» the Americas Watch Report cited earlier states, «but to drown U.S. public opinion with praise for the «freedom fighters,» and to attempt to discredit all reports of their violations as inspired by communist or Sandinista propaganda.

The growing consensus about human rights among religious leaders is a new development that has yet to be widely recognized and understood.

This revolution in religious thought is exemplified by religious leaders» current support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was drafted by the UN Commission on Human Rights.

The board of the Human Rights Commission will decide whether to ask the Kentucky Supreme Court to hear the case after reviewing the opinion, Ray Sexton, the agency's executive director, told the Lexington Herald - Leader.

They were protesting, they explained, the prominent position given to the leader of one of the world's worst violators of human rights.

«It should also be made quite clear that Gadhafi was no more of a Muslim leader than Slobodan Milosevic or Robert Mugabe should be considered to be Christian leaders,» said Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and author of «Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era.»

everyday, christians pray fo this country, our leaders, troops, the economy, values and morality, and all we get back is hatred from abortion groups, gay right movements and other form of wayward beleifs with the sole purpose of reducing humans to the same level as animals.

I'll start: My opinion is that President Bush was wrong to attend the opening ceremonies for the Olympic Games in China because his absence would have shown unity with other world leaders who are fed up with China's continued human rights abuses.

Dr. Johnson Cook is an experienced religious leader with a passion for human rights and an impressive record of public service.

If I've got this right (and it doesn't always happen) the problem is that we try and set our own goals and pick our leaders by our human standards.

It sounds noble, which is one reason why church leaders are attracted to human rights.

Despite prayers and protests from religious leaders and human rights advocates, the Kremlin announced Putin's approval yesterday.

The Communion of Churches in Indonesia (CCI) is ready to cooperate for the enhancement of the work at the national level (communication: written and electronic media, formation of present and future leaders, dialog and «Tagung», research and development, evangelisation, human rights issues and advocacy, urban - industrial mission, etc.).