Sentences with phrase «human rights of their citizens»

It was the announcement by Mukherji and D' Sousa that the Christian Community had decided to forgo special communal representation in the legislature and other communal safeguards so that there would not be political exploitation of increase of numbers through conversion that there was a spontaneous decision in the Constituent Assembly to include propagation of religion as a fundamental human right of the citizen.

According to political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key elements: (a) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; (b) The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; (c) Protection of the human rights of all citizens, and (d) A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens

There are governments all over the world who find excuses for curtailing the human rights of their citizens - we shouldn't be one of them.

However, Cope has called upon all South Africans to resist any attempts «to make South Africa the home of last resort of those leaders who have violated the human rights of the citizens of their very own countries».

No one was lying when, in 2011, the UN demanded that the Libyan government respect the human rights of its citizens, even though the UN, Libya, and human rights are all figments of our fertile imaginations.

We demand states respect the human rights of their citizens, to cease such illegal surveillance practices, and be transparent about the use of purchased surveillance software, the cost to taxpayer in each case, and the legal and procedural guarantees that are used to prevent a massive intrusion on people's rights.

Not exact matches

The ceremony was held at Newfoundland's World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, where Rev. Sean Moon prayed for «a kingdom of peace police and peace militia where the citizens, through the right given to them by almighty God to keep and bear arms, will be able to protect one another and protect human flourishing.»

Civil Liberties — Our rights as human beings and citizens of the world are threatened by political corruption, police militarization, government intrusion and mainstream media disinformation.

Equal human rights are for all citizens, not only for those of the Muslim faith!

Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.

«Friday prayers bring all people of a society together at one time - rich or poor, man or woman, senior citizen or young child,» said Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and founder of TheMuslimGuy.com.

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.

A number of dictatorial countries» including some that Freedom House has ranked among the worst violators of human rights» flatly asserted that individual rights must remain subservient to those of the state, a stipulation that, if accepted, would effectively strip the individual citizen of his rights.

iv) The UD is designed to protect citizens against violations of human rights by States and governments, even if ineffectively.

Or again, he saw the black citizens» human rights fight making a wise use of social and political power to gain equal dignity and redress old grievances.

They grant the right of concern to citizens and humans but never confuse the issue by considering the possibility that the clergyman or other professional is also a citizen or human being.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

In 1947 a group of American blacks led by W. E. B. Du Bois, under the auspices of the NAACP, had appealed to the UN to redress «the denial of human rights to minorities in the case of citizens of Negro descent in the United States of America.»

The right - wing moralists make scapegoats of homosexuals, who are now aboveground and who claim the full rights of human beings and citizens.

Those familiar with the country believe that the answer is twofold: a rigorously negotiated constitution shaped around human rights and citizen participation in political decisions; and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that walked the narrow boundary between exacting vengeance on the agents of the regime and granting them immunity.

No one here probably knows about it, but AA formed and existed in the time when atheists were seen as exceptionally evil without the rights of other human beings or American citizens.

Human rights advocates are looking to the Paralympics with high hopes of enforcing the disability rights of Russian citizens.

To my way of thinking, the Whig tradition — and particularly the Catholic Whig tradition — offers the world's best statement of philosophical principles and practical guidelines concerning how and why free citizens should shape new societies worthy of their human rights and ordered liberties.

There, the nation - defining question of who is and can be a citizen was transformed into a question of human rights.

Perhaps the most important information to dwell on — as a supporter of Aja, as a mother, and as a concerned citizen — are your human rights in childbirth and how this case has the potential to clearly delineate that boundary between protection of mother and baby and your family's right to self determination and privacy.

«The Force leadership empasises the sanctity of human lives and condemns in the strongest possible terms the violation of the right to life of citizens under any guise.

The Council of Europe, founded in 1949, is an international organisation working to promote human rights across its membership of 47 countries with over 800 million citizens.

A citizen of Koforidua in the Eastern, Mr. Mark - oliver Kevor has dragged the Government of Ghana and the Commission for Human rights and administrative justice to the highest court of Ghana over the controversial 2.25 bn dollars bond that has hit Ghana over the past 2 months.

Yet, it very likely can easily sway a citizen to vote for someone who promises to remove the druggy presence from the society, theoretical concerns about «human rights» being the furthest in minds of those whose loved ones were victimized.

If a future Tory government carries out its plan, and withdraws from the European Convention, the UK government would be embracing pariah status; the first worldwide to introduce a new bill of rights with the aim of providing fewer rights to its citizens.Without the protection of European human rights law, UK citizens will be left systematically vulnerable.

While the rhetoric to justify enhanced surveillance has focused on portraying terrorists as the principal enemies to fight against, we should not forget that the human rights regime was established more than 60 years ago with the main aim to keep in check the power of the state and to prevent abuses against ordinary citizens.

The reason why states have a right to self - defence is because they are the guarantors of their citizen's human rights.

But — just as our human rights underdetermine our rights as citizens of a particular country — the «human rights» of animals (grounded in intrinsic moral status) under - determine rights (and duties) owed to (and by) individual animals on the basis of their relations with other human and animal community members.

Israel is not systematically violating the human rights of Palestinians who aren't Israeli citizens.

A lawyer and human rights activist, Mr. Jiti Ogunye, viewed open letters as a means of expressing criticisms and suggestions to the government by the citizens, adding that they were a good way of holding the government accountable.

One difference with Palestinians is that other refugees are generally citizens of their country of origin so their right to live there is already enshrined in general human rights texts (cf. article 13 of the UDHR).

«The majority includes people who would replace human rights with citizens» privileges that can be stripped away by government — they ignored their consultation responses and own terms of reference which were supposed to be about building on Convention rights, not destroying them.»

We join with those in Nigeria who appeal for the protection of their fellow citizens» fundamental freedoms and universal human rights.»

We strongly support the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in calling for a full and transparent investigation in to reports of attacks on Libya citizens.

If adopted, the bill which is copied from repressive countries like Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda, would have a chilling effect not only on expressions of peaceful dissent by the citizens but also on the legitimate work of NGOs and individual human rights defenders and activists scrutinizing corruption in the National Assembly and exposing human rights violations by the government.»

EU citizens also enjoy legal protections of the EU law, [7] specifically the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union [8] and acts and directives regarding e. g. protection of personal data, rights of victims of crime, preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, equal pay, protection from discrimination in employment on grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation anRights of the European Union [8] and acts and directives regarding e. g. protection of personal data, rights of victims of crime, preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, equal pay, protection from discrimination in employment on grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation anrights of victims of crime, preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, equal pay, protection from discrimination in employment on grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation and age.

«SERAP argues that limitations to the legislative powers of the Senate can be implied not only from the chapters two and four of the 1999 Nigerian constitution (as amended) relating to the obligations of all organs of government to promote transparency, accountability and combat corruption and recognition of citizens» fundamental human rights but also by voluntary acceptance of international human rights obligations by Nigeria.»

«Buhari must ensure that in fighting insurgency and corruption that the rights of the Nigerian citizens are still respected because even in a war situation under the united nation charter, even prisoners of war are entitled to fundamental human rights.

«The fight for international human rights should be given to Chinese citizens... Liu Xiaobo has been one of the foremost fighters for human rights and a symbol of it.»

Iran's supreme leader mocked Trump, thanking «Mr. Newcomer» for revealing «the real face» of human rights with his contentious executive order that would ban citizens from Iran and six other nations from entering the United States.

Reed Brody, legal counsel for campaign group Human Rights Watch, which is supporting Mr Kyere's campaign along with Trial International, says Ghana would be an ideal country for the trial because it has a strong justice system and provisions to prosecute people for the «enforced disappearance» of Ghanaian citizens anywhere in the world.

Poughkeepsie... With the approach of the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday, Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro has announced Dutchess County's enhanced commitment to equality for all citizens, with several Human Resources initiatives, including the appointment of Jody Miller as the County's new Equal Employment Opportunity / Human Rights (EEO / HR) Officer.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, she voted against the repealing of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» legislation, opposed legislation that would grant equal tax treatment for employer - provided health coverage for domestic partners, opposed legislation to grant same - sex partners of U.S. citizens and permanent residents the same immigration benefits of married couples and opposed legislation to permit state Medicaid programs to cover low - income, HIV - positive Americans before they develop AIDS.

The High Court in Accra, Human Rights Division, presided over by His Lordship Justice Anthony K. Yeboah, will today [Monday] deliver judgment on the case filed by five citizens over the delayed implementation of the Representation of the People Amendment Act also known as the ROPAA law, 2006 [Act 699].

From its cannibalistic proclivities, the world can see why the APC and its insensitive Federal Government care less about the lives and welfare of Nigerians, resulting in the escalation of violence, bloodletting, mass killings, extra-judicial executions, persecution of citizens, abuse of human rights, constitutional violations, including invasion of the National Assembly as well as attack on federal lawmakers and judicial officers.