Sentences with phrase «human rights move»

Or should human rights move aside to make room for less human - centred system of values?

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Anna Borshchevskaya, an Ira Weiner fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, writes in The Hill that the coup attempt will force Erdogan and Putin toward a closer relationship as Turkey moves further away from the West and its demands for human rights and open democracy.

The strategy was used successfully to block an EU move to raise criticisms of China's human rights record at the United Nations, they said.

Restoration of relations would be the latest phase in a normalization process, which is expected to move slowly because of lingering problems over issues such as Cuba's human rights record.

As Canada moves forward to manage and expand relationships in Asia, we have an important opportunity to bring balance and consistency to our engagement on human rights.

The reports of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violatHuman Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violaRights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violathuman - rights violarights violations.

I was moved to tears by this story of human goodness and the courage to do what is right.

By the time Pope Benedict XVI addressed the U.N. General Assembly on the sixtieth anniversary of the UDHR in 2008, opportunistic uses of human rights were in full swing, prompting the pope to announce, «Efforts need to be redoubled in the face of pressure to reinterpret the foundations of the Declaration and to compromise its inner unity so as to facilitate a move away from the protection of human dignity towards the satisfaction of simple interests, often particular interests.»

As a participant in that 1998 Ramsey Colloquium, a longtime supporter of the cautious use of rights language, and a frequent critic of its misuses, I was moved by Reno's arguments to ponder whether the noble post — World War II universal human - rights idea has finally been so manipulated and politicized as to justify its abandonment by men and women of good will.

Sorely lacking was the robust doctrine of human rights of the kind that the popes have moved toward since 1945.

Those who recognize the signs of the times will move beyond the outmoded doctrines that the State has a divinely delegated power to kill and that criminals forfeit their fundamental human rights.

Sorry you're no educated on human rights or women's rights... the world move past ignorant people like you thankfully and your voice does get silenced.

We have moved from a place in which human rights have been guaranteed by virtue of some understanding of transcendent derivation, to a dispensation in which even the most fundamental rights are to be regarded as existing at the whim of the electorate.

«When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...» But the Declaration then quickly moves, in the very same sentence, to the question of by what right or by what authority such a change is to be made.

Government, as an agent of justice must therefore move beyond protection and deterrent functions to the» active and creative promotion of human rights.

(iii) the weakness of human nature (and a basic lesson in civics) as the religious right moves to shut the experiments down.

(iii) the weakness of human nature (and a basic lesson in politics) as the religious right moves to shut the experiments down; and, most importantly

Many Pakistani Christians are descendants of the low caste Chuhras, a Hindu group which moved to Pakistan after the 1947 partition, according to a Human Rights Watch report.

Lets move on and focus on solving the issues of hunger, education, human rights, wealth re-distribution, and the environment.

(iii) the weakness of human nature (and a basic lesson in politics) as the religious right moves to shut the experiments down.

(Tangent: I spent most of college and law school working on progressive, feminist, anti-racist issues and worked as a human rights lawyer before moving into the world of food.)

Rainforest Alliance President, Nigel Sizer, says the move could be disastrous for the environment and for human rights.

As loving caregivers and flawed mediators — we're human, we don't always get it right — we've taught our girls that when someone does you wrong, or when you do wrong by someone, it's best to immediately make amends and move on.

The UN Human Rights Office has released a short film that raises awareness of intersex individuals and it's beyond moving.

Chapter 14 All the «Right» Parenting Moves gives insight into the basic truth that we are imperfect humans raising imperfect humans in an imperfect world and therefore no parenting will produce perfection.

Last week, the US and EU opposed moves for legally - binding measures to hold corporations to account at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council, citing the Global Compact as an alternative approach.

The debate has moved beyond discussions of outcomes and causality to those of ethics and human rights.

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But attorney general Dominic Grieve said any such move could contradict European human rights legislation.

Right now, the human, social and political cost of not having acted decisively on the migrant crisis is huge: the Schengen Agreement lies in tatters, thousands of migrants have died, millions are on the move (on average, two thousand per day are arriving in Europe this year so far), and anti-immigration feelings have been inflamed across the continent.

Britain is moving to drastically water down the powers of the European court of human rights, a leaked document shows.

In an unusual move, de Blasio is replacing the head of the city's Commission on Human Rights — one day after getting a strongly worded letter from Public Advocate Letitia James attacking her and demanding she be fired.

In a move which will outrage human rights activists, the decision to strip Brits of their citizenship could be made in secret courts which are closed to the public.

«If you take all the UN human development indicators, it gives clear evidence that this country is moving in the right direction.

Addressing congregants at the Holy Ghost Temple of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) on Sunday, president Mahama said the improvement in the country's human development index shows Ghana is moving in the right direction.

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The move later backed down after many human rights organizations accused the government of «violating» the human rights of the girls.

In a move predicted for several months and one that will no doubt intensify the believe that she is gearing up for another shot at the White House, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has changed her position on same - sex marriage, saying in a video recorded for the Human Rights Campaign that she now supports letting gay couples legally wed..

If you got a problem with progress and human rights, move to Iran.

Both moves would open up a space to abandon the Human Rights Act (HRA)-- widely detested by Conservatives — as long as the British bill of rights still satisfies the European convention, albeit with minor alteraRights Act (HRA)-- widely detested by Conservatives — as long as the British bill of rights still satisfies the European convention, albeit with minor alterarights still satisfies the European convention, albeit with minor alterations.

The guidance insisted such a move would be legal if women were not discriminated against, but the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said sex segregation was only permissible in religious premises.

The Human Rights Act has led to local people not being informed of dangerous offenders moving into their area, the shadow justice secretary argued during his keynote conference speech earlier today.

That cynical moment turned a very important human value upside down in the sense that, from that moment, as they stepped in and decided to just move into the capital and literarily destroyed so much human life and natural habitat, I told the world in one sentence that, the right of might now supersedes the might of right.

The move, announced ahead of the governor addressing the LGBT organization the Human Rights Campaign, was cheered by advocates for tackling an issue that has stalled in the state Legislature.

Nick Clegg raised the stakes at the start of conference season with a pledge to the Lib Dems that the Human Rights Act was here to stay, a move which also irritated Mr Clarke.

The report, produced in consultation with a number of businesses and NGOs, including Amnesty International, Verité, Engineers Against Poverty and the Institute for Human Rights and Business, examines the root causes of slavery, and sets out priority actions for moving the industry towards greater transparency.

«In this plan, Mr. Blay has, through a facility, acquired 275 buses for the 275 constituencies of the NPP in the country», the statement clarified, in response to moves by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) to drag the former First and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament to the Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) as well as the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) for allegedly seeking to buy votes with the bus move.

Congressman Adriano Espaillat, the first Dominican - American to serve on the Hill, has lambasted President Donald Trump for his efforts to expel foreign nationals from the United States — but the formerly undocumented lawmaker defended his native country's recent moves to strip thousands of individuals of Haitian descent of their citizenship, policies Amnesty International warned have «created a human rights crisis.»

When Labour came to power in 1997 they expressed a desire to move these issues onto the agenda, with a Human Rights Act, a PM opposed to ID cards, and such things as an «Ethical foreign policy» to express a belief that the rights of others could be placed above our national intRights Act, a PM opposed to ID cards, and such things as an «Ethical foreign policy» to express a belief that the rights of others could be placed above our national intrights of others could be placed above our national interest.

«The [Republican] party's moved so far to the right, they can't even accept anti-discrimination efforts in the Human Rights Commission,» Latimer, 63, said, adding that as county executive he would fire everyone currently on the commission and employ a new team.