Sentences with phrase «human rights strategy»

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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.

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 growth.

The UN Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to voluntarily align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment, and anticorruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues.

Its Energy, Environmental Health, Waste, and Human Rights programs create positive, industry - wide change through corporate dialogue, shareholder advocacy, coalition building, and innovative legal strategies.

RBC's Canadian and North American business strategy is founded on building strong and lasting relationships with our clients - «earning the right to be our clients» first choice» - and human capital is our greatest asset in making this happen.

The report concludes that any coherent strategy for increasing Canadian engagement with, and influence in, Asia should recognize that trade and investment strategies and practices need to be coordinated with human rights goals.

The report suggests that combining human rights priorities with broader Canadian strategic interests — including trade and investment policies — can support a prosperity strategy that strengthens Canada's influence in the region.

How could we broaden our strategy on promoting human rights in China?

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

In its contemporary form, it forces the majority of the human race into strategies for abject survival, denying tens of millions of people even the right to live.

Herbert Anaya earlier described how the United States manipulates human rights as part of a «counterrevolutionary strategy.»

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.

Whatever changes in El Salvador's human rights situation must be understood in social terms as part of [the U.S.] counterinsurgency strategy.

A development strategy that disregards or interferes with human rights is the very negation of development.

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.

Research and develop scientifically - based strategies, standards, and tools for implementing company supply chain commitments and sustainable landscape management to curtail deforestation and protect human rights as part of the AFi; and

Baby Milk Action also pointed out that the Assembly adopted the Code as a «minimum requirement», that human rights are meant to be universal and that the Nestlé «protect» marketing strategy is global, hence the need to invoke measures at an international level.

Danone and The Guardian — a strategy for marketing unnecessary products and diverting attention from human rights abuses

So I am very familiar with how this company abuses human rights and the environment and the strategies it uses to divert criticism of its activities.

We also engaged in a community forum and strategy session to address issues of perinatal health inequities and human rights in maternity care.

The Global Compact was introduced by then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to encourage corporations to align «their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.»

Instead, she skated to confirmation on Thursday — her nomination greased by a divided Senate Democratic Caucus, leaders of the minority who opted not to twist arms, and advocacy groups that couldn't mount an effective attack strategy despite what they saw as Haspel's checkered record on human rights.

Wilsonians, according to Mead, place democracy promotion and human rights as core elements in US grand strategy.

By understanding the ambitions, outlooks and strategies of those in the Inter-American Court and in local courts, the project will develop an understanding of how international human rights law diffuses into national courts.

On Wednesday, during the strategy session, the governor will meet with Christine C. Quinn, the speaker of the City Council, who is openly gay; Brian Ellner, who is pushing for same - sex marriage in New York for the Human Rights Campaign, a national advocacy group; Ross D. Levi, the head of the state's leading gay rights organization, the Empire State Pride Agenda; and Richard Socarides, a former Clinton administration official and president of Equality Matters, a new advocacy Rights Campaign, a national advocacy group; Ross D. Levi, the head of the state's leading gay rights organization, the Empire State Pride Agenda; and Richard Socarides, a former Clinton administration official and president of Equality Matters, a new advocacy rights organization, the Empire State Pride Agenda; and Richard Socarides, a former Clinton administration official and president of Equality Matters, a new advocacy group.

Amnesty has been pressing the UK government for months on their strategy, or lack of it, to achieve tangible improvements in the current human rights crackdown going on in Sri Lanka which has seen journalists silenced, the independence of the judiciary compromised and activists and campaigners intimidated.

Labour will develop «a trade strategy that protects and promotes skilled jobs, human rights and workers» rights».

«We want to build excitement and momentum in advance of that,» said Ellner... As part of that strategy, the Human Rights Campaign and its allies are spending heavily to oust three New York state senators — all Democrats — who voted against the marriage bill last year and who face opponents in the primary on Tuesday: William Stachowski of Buffalo, Shirley L. Huntley of Queens and Rubén Díaz Sr. of the Bronx.»

Hon. Obasa was in company of the following lawmakers during the visit: the Assembly Deputy Chief Whip, Hon. Omotayo Oduntan; the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Strategy and Security, Hon. Tunde Buraimoh; the Chairman of the House Committee on Health, Hon. Segun Olulade; the Chairman of the House Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, Public Petitions and LASIEC, Princess Adefunmilato Tejuoso; the Chairman of the House Committee on Youths, Sports and Social Development, Hon. Adedamola Richard Kasumu; and Hon. Jude Idimogu.

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They discuss the limits to embedding human rights in law and argue that a more effective strategy might be to organize public health social movements.

For the purpose of the study, CSR is defined as strategies that appear to foster some social good, including programs that benefit community engagement, diversity, the environment, human rights and employee relations.

(Update, January 30, from Peter Witzler, Physicians for Human Rights: «We have shifted strategy to target Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Wyndham called for human rights and scientific, engineering and health communities to come together around common goals, adding that the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition is the best existing forum in which to hold such discussions and develop a joint strahuman rights and scientific, engineering and health communities to come together around common goals, adding that the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition is the best existing forum in which to hold such discussions and develop a joint strrights and scientific, engineering and health communities to come together around common goals, adding that the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition is the best existing forum in which to hold such discussions and develop a joint straHuman Rights Coalition is the best existing forum in which to hold such discussions and develop a joint strRights Coalition is the best existing forum in which to hold such discussions and develop a joint strategy.

The need for solid research in the humanitarian realm has always been great, whether it's documenting human - rights violations, measuring child poverty, or planning response strategies to health emergencies in developing countries.

SITU Research is an interdisciplinary design firm based in Brooklyn, New York that focuses on integrating design strategies, methodologies and instrumentation in the service of human rights fact - finding and reporting in both legal and advocacy contexts.

But it's important to know that the decision to live openly as transgender can be difficult for many reasons, explains Jay Brown, director of program strategies for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and a transgender man himself.

Jessica was previously the Director of Communications at Just Vision, where she produced films for seven years with director Julia Bacha and led communications strategy in support of Palestinian and Israeli community organizers and human rights defenders.

Identifying these strategies to eliminate non-Serbs as a civil war is tantamount to defining the holocaust as a civil war between German Jews and German Arians.44 This is an example of how recent approaches to human rights can work to conceal and confound who is doing what to whom, thus effectively condoning such violations.45

A new report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights recommends that that the Prevent strategy must be reviewed, criticising the government for not offering a clear definition of «extremism».

In this project, the Education factor is present in the majority of the strands of work: approach of incorporating comprehensive sex education in the formal education system and in youth organizations; implementation of the Comprehensive Strategy of Sex Education of the Department of Education in the classrooms at the two education centres; strengthening of the institutional capacity of the health and education sectors, through the provision of health personnel, methodological tools and focusing on gender, human rights and multiculturalism; cross-sector coordination (Health - Education Departments), and with civil society to develop alliances which promote the exercising of the Sexual and Reproductive rights of the adolescents and young people of zones 3 and 7 of Guatemala City.

The growing amount of educational exchanges and joint projects in between students, instructors, teachers, schools and diverse institutions in order to organize activities with similar goals and strategies contributed greatly to the development of common research, reflection and practices that enriched their work and created strong tights in the process of building human rights knowledge.

This would need training for security officers on issues of human rights to strategies of assisting victim to initiate prosecution where there favourable grounds.

The report surveyed over 300 New York City public school teachers and found that they concluded that punitive approaches toward children, such as aggressive policing, suspensions and other reactive strategies, actually undermine the human right to education by failing to address the causes of conflict and criminalizing students.

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Short clips depict the strategies and tactics that rural women, Maathai and other activists used to protect critical public lands, fight for human rights and protest political corruption.

If Shiller is right, Buy - and - Hold is the most dangerous strategy ever concocted by the human mind.

The retailers that learn to strike the right balance between automation and human interaction will be uniquely positioned to thrive in this new era of retail,» said Brennan Wilkie, senior vice president of customer experience strategy at InMoment in a statement.

Our overall product line strategy is to address what we call the four Ps: Power: our food Praise: our treats and training aids Prevention: our supplements Pampering: our shampoos, conditioners and colognes All Health Extension supplements are made right here in America in a human - grade, FDA - inspected facility, with no sourcing from China.