Sentences with phrase «human rights protections»

The exploration in this year's report of Indigenous human rights protections, remote Indigenous education, Indigenous healing and Indigenous health equality provide the basis for identifying the important steps government needs to take over the following eighteen months, to set the new agenda for Indigenous affairs.

The focus of Social Justice Report 2008 is on human rights protections for Indigenous peoples, remote Indigenous education, Indigenous healing and the progress on achieving Indigenous health equality by 2030.

The focus of this year's report is on human rights protections for Indigenous peoples, remote Indigenous education, Indigenous healing and the progress on achieving Indigenous health equality by 2030.

The Australian Government recently announced a national consultation on the adequacy of human rights protections in Australia.

On 10 December 2008, the Australian Government launched a national consultation on human rights protections in Australia.

The absence of human rights protections, particularly protection against discrimination, from the Constitution does not only affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The new Commonwealth government has announced a broad national consultation process to consider the adequacy of human rights protections in Australia.

The Special Rapporteur spoke about the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples reflecting on how it mirrored the existing human rights protections guaranteed in the Declaration on Human Rights, which has its 60th anniversary this year.

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and American Bar Associations Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Vice Chair of ABA Subcommittee of the Business Law Section Drafting Human Rights Protections in Supply Contracts.

This is the medical - legal partnership model that began in California to create a safe environment with human rights protections for those with HIV to seek testing and treatment.

«It was an immensely stimulating experience,» she says, «because you got to see the status of human rights protections in so many different nations.»

But that reputation is now under threat, due to the negative tone of debate from some politicians and many parts of the media around the Human Rights Act, and the potential risk to people's equality and human rights protections when the UK leaves the European Union.

Employees with disabilities also have important human rights protections.

The last time it considered the scope of human rights protections was in a 2014 decision, McCormick v. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP.

There, the Supreme Court narrowed the scope of human rights protections by determining that law firm partners are not entitled to such protections because they are not employees.

The Supreme Court's determination will likely have significant repercussions as to the scope of human rights protections in workplace settings.

It determined that human rights protections should not be narrowly construed, and that any discrimination regarding employment could be protected under the Code.

Despite these human rights protections, issues with accommodation of service animals for individuals arise often.

Both Ontario and Canadian laws provide Human Rights protections.

We support increasing the availability of human rights protections in a manner that does not undermine access to or marginalize the administrative human rights system, which has an important role in the development and delivery of human rights.

The CCD is in the unique position, as a representative of â wide cross-section of Canadians with disabilities, to provide context for the Court, particularly with respect to the possible consequences of this decision on access to human rights protections by people with disabilities.

i. the Court should recognize that human rights protections are an implied term in every employment contract; and

In fulfilling this equality mandate, the CCD's position here is that human rights protections must be accessible to persons with disabilities.

the Court should, when defining the scope of the courts» ju «risdiction to provide redress for discrimination, consider any consequences that such a decision may have on the statutory human rights system and the accessibility of human rights protections for people with disabilities.

When considering the most appropriate forum for a dispute, which may be the administrative or the judicial system, we ask that this Court keep the importance of access to justice and the goals of human rights protections in mind.

This finding that a broad interpretation is not appropriate runs contrary to the general rule that human rights protections should be interpreted liberally, due to the rights - conferring nature of the legislation.

In its submission to the Court, West Coast LEAF argued that limiting the scope of human rights protections against discriminatory harassment — as the BC Court of Appeal did — turns back the clock on 30 years of workplace equality rights.

In many ways, this case is about equal access to human rights protections for homeless people in BC.

The Court released its judgment in Schrenk v BC Human Rights Tribunal, a case about the scope of human rights protections against discriminatory harassment in the workplace.

If the Bill enters into force as it stands today, only domestic human rights protections and the ECHR (which in the UK is incorporated by the Human Rights Act 1998) will apply.

Ms Branson said many lawyers and legal organisations were active participants in developing better human rights protections.

The simple takeaway from that case, as many headlines put it, seemed to be «Partners of a Partnership Not Afforded Human Rights Protections».

Here the Court slid into not only a moralized (vulnerability) account of why we have human rights protections for certain groups (a sound move), but also to a moralized (vulnerability) account of the contexts in which these protections are to be operable (a very unsound move).

West Coast LEAF has been granted leave to intervene in a case that has potential ramifications for all marginalized groups that may need human rights protections.

Should he or she really be required to say, «I would really love to show you my Facebook profile, but I defend my right to so based on a desire for human rights protections»?

These frameworks attempt to circumvent national constitutional or human rights protections governing interferences with the right to privacy of communications that, States purport, apply only to nationals or those within their territorial jurisdiction.

The fact that changes in national responses to ethically unacceptable behavior can be demonstrated from the spread of human rights around the world which can be attributed to shaming nations for their failure to provide human rights protections.

Particular concerns raised about the CIFs included a lack of country ownership, flawed engagement and consultation processes with stakeholders, failure to address the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, and, in some circumstances, the insufficient inclusion of gender equity and human rights protections.

(19) In balancing approach security concerns versus human rights protections, must state exactly whose rights will be affected by the proposed measure.

As the EU (Withdrawal) Bill progresses through Parliament, we wish to support MPs to ensure equality and human rights protections are maintained, including the implications of the devolved context.

In coalition, Liberal Democrats blocked plans to repeal the Human Rights Act and leave the European Convention on Human Rights, but now David Cameron is re-heating proposals to scrap fundamental human rights protections.

Kerry's said the Nigeria law is «inconsistent» with country's international legal obligations and «undermines» democratic reforms as well as human rights protections within Nigeria's constitution.

This new incarnation would turn the clock back on more than 30 years of improved community relations and human rights protections.

Without human rights protections, we are all even more exposed.

We have an established framework of human rights protections for privacy going back to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of1948, which followed the experience of totalitarian surveillance.

It is necessary to work towards creating a culture that sees the values of human rights and places them at the centre, so that it becomes political unfeasible to scale back the human rights protections that already exist.

But if allowed to pass, the bill would peel away at human rights protections, and foster a rule by men rather the rule of law.

The new Egyptian constitution is stronger on human rights protections and provides for the construction and renovation of Christian churches, according to the IRF report.

The Roundtables generated multiple policy recommendations on issues such as standard setting; monitoring and enforcement, expanding the role of women in trade policy and practice, and linking trade treaties with human rights protection.

Opinion surveys conducted by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada reveal that Canadians are concerned about human rights protection while also being committed to expanding business opportunities.