Sentences with phrase «human rights of workers»

We will fight to protect the human rights of workers and ensure their ability to strike and assemble isn't diminished.

Not exact matches

But data wranglers from SAS are putting that talent to valuable use, wringing insights out of huge collections of information to help human rights workers, environmentalists, and educators, among others.

But the ban may actually backfire, said Human Rights Watch, which warned it could «increase abuses of workers who are forced to resort to unsafe and unregulated channels to enter the country» and thus become more vulnerable to trafficking and other dangers.

How the Liberals are navigating the two sides in the debate is laid out in more than 150 pages of documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the access to information law that outline how the issue is complicated by existing human rights decisions, the requirement to accommodate workers whose addictions constitute a disability, workers» privacy rights and actually proving impairment, particularly from cannabis.

Right now, the human worker who does, say, $ 50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things.

In the area of Human Rights, Equity and Diversity (HRED) he guides national strategies on Diversity and Inclusion, Temporary Foreign Workers (migrant workers), Racialized, Aboriginal, Immigrant, LGBT, and other equity seeking communities, with a view to qualitative and quantitative organizational Workers (migrant workers), Racialized, Aboriginal, Immigrant, LGBT, and other equity seeking communities, with a view to qualitative and quantitative organizational workers), Racialized, Aboriginal, Immigrant, LGBT, and other equity seeking communities, with a view to qualitative and quantitative organizational growth.

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.»

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

Canada's unions are marking the fifth anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster by urging Canadian companies to commit to protecting and promoting the human rights of textile workers.

The organizations sent a joint letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland outlining their shared principles and priorities for a new trade model rooted in principles of equity, the primacy of human rights — including the rights of Indigenous peoples, women and girls, workers, migrants, farmers, and communities — and social and ecological justice.

• 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.»

Among the reasons they cited for wealth being «increasingly concentrated» in the hands of the richest is tax evasion and the ability to exploit workers as human rights erode in countries around the world.

Rieff writes: «Human rights workers sometimes talk of their movement as an emblem of grassroots democracy.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

How long will the Christians and people of the United States have to contemplate the incongruity of its government... as it supports with over a million dollars a day another government that represses, kills bishops, religious workers, children, men and women, violates human rights, closes itself to dialogue and obstructs the pastoral task of the churches?

Even in this country all national or state legislation designed to protect human health, the rights of workers, family farmers, or the natural environment will be subject to being overruled as in restraint of trade.

Globalization has resulted in gross human rights violations for millions of workers (particularly women workers), peasants and farmers, and indigenous communities.

The Senate bill is more consistent with the critical principles of uniting families, protecting human rights and worker rights, bringing undocumented people out of the shadows and providing a path to permanence for newcomers.

The Buddhist's sympathy with the pain of the world, the Hindu's sense of the unchanging stability of the Eternal, the Moslem's realization of international comradeship, the Confucian's appreciation of social morality, and... the sacrifices of scientific workers in the quest of truth and human welfare [and today, may we not add the Communist's concern for social justice, the humanist's insistence on the value of right self - realization of man's capacities, and the secularist's recognition of the non-religious goods in human experience?]

This is what James Eadie QC, Cameron's Government's expensive barrister, told the court (on his behalf): that the refusal to allow an NHS nurse and a British Airways worker to visibly wear a crucifix at work «did not prevent either of them practising religion in private», which would be protected by human rights law.

Fair for Life Social & Fair Trade certification guarantees that human rights are guaranteed at any stage of production, that workers enjoy good and fair working conditions, and that smallholder farmers receive a fair share.

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now to the topic: yeah i get what you mean a fan shouldnt think of the club as a brand but if fans think about the manager or player of a club they should and have to consider them as humans / workers of a brand just because we love the club its not right to bash blame and insult them because of failure, what we can do is demand change, expressing our disliking and / or criticising them constructively but insulting and offending them is a no - go.

Funny how #FIFAarrests take over Twitter, whilst human rights abuses & thousands of dead workers in #Qatar just don't seem to matter...

From Qatar's summer temperature to human rights issues, and from the country's lack of football history to the number of workers who have so far died in making the tournament possible, the decision has been met with uproar.

The entire shooting match should be sacked or imprisoned in the light of the treatment of workers in Qatar, and the next two World Cups reallocated to countries who can, firstly, organise them properly and, secondly, possess human rights records that make them suitable venues in the first place.

In British Columbia, the British Columbia Human Rights Commission Policy and Procedures Manual protects the rights of female workers who wish to breasRights Commission Policy and Procedures Manual protects the rights of female workers who wish to breasrights of female workers who wish to breastfeed.

engage with target groups, e.g. trade unions, workers rights organizations, human rights agencies, occupational health organizations, and women's and youth groups, to protect the breastfeeding rights of women in the workplace.

«I have written to all relevant human rights agencies both within and outside the country to assist in that regard as Kogi Government and its officials are averse to constructive criticisms, yet refused to take the welfare of Kogi workers and pensioners on the priority list of its administration

Cuomo has already gotten endorsements from the Human Rights Campaign, 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, singer Elton John and the state chapter of the National Organization for Women.

Laski's main political role came as a writer and lecturer on every topic of concern to the left, including socialism, capitalism, working conditions, eugenics, woman suffrage, imperialism, decolonisation, disarmament, human rights, worker education, and Zionism.

Sex workers are to be denied this basic human right taken as granted by the rest of the population.

As the ceasefire entered its third day, the human rights organisation published a series of disturbing testimonials by workers on the ground strongly suggesting Israeli forces broke the Fourth Geneva Convention.

«It is sad that the government has chosen to ignore the legitimate human rights and aspirations of sex workers and instead has chosen to further criminalise an already criminalised work force.

PCS members at the Equality and Human Right Commission are fighting cuts to budgets and staff that will mean up to 250 of the commission's 400 experienced workers face redundancy, while highly paid management consultants are retained.

The suit filed on behalf of SERAP by its deputy director Timothy Adewale read in part: «The Applicant argues that allegations of corruption and mismanagement of N388.304 billion London Paris Club loan refunds by states have undermined the human dignity of workers and pensioners facing difficult circumstances that deprive them of their capacity to fully realize their internationally recognized economic and social rights.»

Though Cuomo has racked up endorsements from the Human Rights Campaign, 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, singer Elton John and the state chapter of the National Organization for Women, Nixon's got some endorsements of her own.

Sierra Club: 10/71 % Service Employees International Union: 9/64 % International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers: 8/57 % American Wind Energy Institute: 8/57 % Human Rights Campaign: 8/57 % National Electrical Contractors Association: 8/57 % Business Roundtable: 7/50 % League of Conservation Voters: 7/50 % National Beer Wholesalers Association: 7/50 % U.S. Telecom Association: 7/50 %

Comrade Aremu who is also the Vice President of Industriall global union and General Secretary of Textile Workers» Union observed that the 1999 constitution guarantees basic human and workers» Workers» Union observed that the 1999 constitution guarantees basic human and workers» workers» rights.

«It should be no surprise to New Yorkers that Gov. Cuomo intends to effectively amend the Human Rights Law without consulting the State Legislature; not long ago, the Governor overstepped the bounds of his executive authority in regard to the minimum wage to be paid to fast - food workers,» said Rev. Jason McGuire, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms.

«I apologize for those who feel offended,» Mr. Grisanti said, adding, «I can not deny a person, a human being, a taxpayer, a worker, the people of my district and across this state, the State of New York, and those people who make this the great state that it is the same rights that I have with my wife.»

Three East Hampton Town Highway Department workers have reportedly agreed to withdraw complaints they filed with the New York Division of Human Rights against the department's superintendent

Council Member Robert Cornegy, for his part, introduced a bill that would mandate that employers inform workers of their rights vis - à - vis sexual harassment with an office poster and a bill introduced by Council Member Alicka Ampry - Samuel would direct the Commission on Human Rights to provide resources regarding sexual harassment on its werights vis - à - vis sexual harassment with an office poster and a bill introduced by Council Member Alicka Ampry - Samuel would direct the Commission on Human Rights to provide resources regarding sexual harassment on its weRights to provide resources regarding sexual harassment on its website.

The agenda, five months in the making, includes bills that call for the creation of a task force to assess the city university system's affordability, admissions and graduation rates, a report on the use of long - acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices, sexual assault awareness and prevention training for cab drivers, a street co-naming for the original Ms. Magazine headquarters and expanding the definition of employer under the human rights law to offer protections for domestic workers.

«And we are putting forward a different agenda on that, which is about maintaining workers» rights, human rights, maintaining the EU investment levels, which are very high, # 400m due to go into the south west alone over the next four years, and bringing about some kind of market access to Europe.

Through its Right to Work with Dignity program, NESRI supports the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a diverse group of farm workers campaigning for decent wages and human rights monitoring in the fields of FWorkers, a diverse group of farm workers campaigning for decent wages and human rights monitoring in the fields of Fworkers campaigning for decent wages and human rights monitoring in the fields of Florida.

Beginning in 2008, Cathy Albisa, Executive Director of NESRI, and Professor Patrick Mason, an economist, began to collaborate on the human rights of farm workers.

The skills of physicians, medical and forensic scientists, and other health workers are uniquely valuable in human rights investigations and documentation, producing evidence of abuse more credible and less vulnerable to challenge than traditional methods of case reporting.

«Having an accurate overview of how different regions of countries are connected by human movement aids effective disease control planning and helps target resources, such as treated bed nets or community health workers, in the right places.