Sentences with phrase «human rights using»

We are not likely to win this battle for basic human rights using the argument that the bible has no value.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Committee on Human Rights Contact: Rebecca Everly The Committee on Human Rights uses the influence and prestige of the institutions the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine represents on behalf of scientists, engineers, and health professionals anywhere in the world.

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The coup attempt failed within a day, and Erdogan was quick to use the opportunity to solidify his already increasingly authoritarian rule by implementing a three - month state of emergency, temporarily suspending the European Convention on Human Rights, and removing tens of thousands of employees from military and government positions.

Activist Alberdingk Thijm does groundbreaking work helping activists use smartphone cameras to defend human rights, but her most profound influence is incredibly down - to - earth: classic children's book character Pippi Longstocking

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.

Google (goog) has invited all the news publishers on the web to use its Project Shield service, which it has been testing with news and human rights sites for a few years.

«We are applying our design and creativity to the supply chain — not just the product,» said Allen, who is using robots to manufacture clothing, thus addressing the waste and human - rights concerns raised by critics of the apparel industry.

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.

Trump used some of his toughest language yet against North Korea in a wide - ranging address in Seoul on Wednesday that lodged specific accusations of chilling human rights abuses, although he offered no evidence to support the accusations.

According to Citizen Lab, Netsweeper has been used to block access to websites on subjects like human rights and homosexuality, and sites dedicated to opposition points of view.

The companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners to use religious objections to deny same - sex couples wedding.

«The Turkish government's news media shutdown shows how the State of Emergency law is being used to deny the right to free speech beyond any legitimate aim of upholding public order,» Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

He said he would accept the inclusion of «sexual orientation» in the Canadian Human Rights Act if it were «clearly defined, but not if it were used as a precedent for further benefits like marital status,» the magazine stated.

International Korean leaders agree to «complete denuclearization» goal, The Guardian UN human rights chief decries Israel's excessive use of force in Gaza, Reuters

Patricia Jurewicz is Founder and Director of Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN), which champions human rights in the mining and harvesting of raw materials found in products we use every day.

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As a result, users still lack the information they need to make informed choices to assess the privacy and human rights risks they face when using a particular service.

Not only will it help you take a more strategic view of human resources, but it's also filled with practical tips that you can start using right away.»

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilities in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China.

Again though, it's possible to use tools to accelerate the relational side but you're right — quality, engaged human interaction will always be a bottle neck.

To manage such risks effectively, we believe companies must assess the risks to shareholder value posed by human rights practices in their operations and supply chain, as well as by the use of their products.

Any weapon, once created, can and will be used by anyone with a reason to seize it; the Civil Rights Act created a whole arsenal, and fallen human nature provides ample reason.

«I pray that he'll be a good president and that he'll keep our country at peace — that he'll refrain from using nuclear weapons, and that he will promote human rights.»

Mr Burrowes who represents Enfield Southgate says the Conservatives wants to scrap the Human Right Act to restore «control» back to Britain and ensure criminals can not use them to avoid punishment, and that the party is «not doing away with human rights&raHuman Right Act to restore «control» back to Britain and ensure criminals can not use them to avoid punishment, and that the party is «not doing away with human rights&rahuman rights».

It's the same vicious smear used against all the «pro-peace, pro-Israel» organizations I support, such as Americans for Peace Now, Rabbis for Human Rights, J Street, etc..

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.

In her address to Georgetown University outlining the Obama Administration's human rights agenda she used «freedom of worship» three times, «freedom of religion,» not once.

A most particular threat to the human rights project is the coercive use of foreign aid and other international programs in order to advance alleged rights related to procreation, population control, and the independence of children from their parents (in the name of «children's rights»).

For example — Often used by many christians as an arguement for intolerence towards human rights... I pose that every religiously ran nation like that of Iran and Iraq are exactly what the religious in this supposedly tolerent country wish to turn this country into, where science and logically thought are frowned upon and knowledge of fairy tales are rewarded.

But if you insist then I would say, Lahwla Walaqwa Alla Bilah, and then thank you for helping me to know and understand that those things you call for are not possible and all just ink on paper, unreal and just was and is being used for what is called propaganda and that all we will harvest being over here are flags in the name of practicing your human rights or your freedom of speech.

According to the Human Rights Watch, people of color are no more likely to use or sell illegal drugs than whites, but they have higher rate of arrests.

He added: «We also expect to see China to use its increasing power to act to prevent progress on human rights around the world.

The difficulty we have is that much of the language we would wish to use has been corrupted such that it is ambiguous, so tolerance and human rights can now be used to suppress Catholic beliefs and the freedom of Catholics to teach.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

Many of its arguments to this effect are derived from human rights «data,» which the Administration has used in turn to justify its support for the contra rebels... [W] e find the Administration's approach to Nicaragua deceptive and harmful....

The liberal elite who occupy the positions of influence in deciding cases under human rights or equality laws tend to use them as a tool to achieve the results that conform to the fashionable values they have absorbed or which prevail in the social environments in which they live, are educated and work.

Pius XII, in a further clarification of the standard argument, holds that when the State, acting by its ministerial power, uses the death penalty, it does not exercise dominion over human life but only recognizes that the criminal, by a kind of moral suicide, has deprived himself of the right to life.

Such a concerted campaign to use human rights in justifying military action is without precedent in U.S. — Latin American relations, and its effect is an unprecedented debasement of the human rights cause.24

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

The term «common humanity» is sometimes used to mean descriptively the characteristics or normatively the rights that are universally human.

Following Apel, I will use the term «communicative rights» to designate the formative rights that belong to all humans as potential participants in moral discourse, and I will call the formative principle in question the principle of communicative respect.

If humanity is not to be viewed as lord and master of the natural world, with unlimited rights to use it without regard to the effects, then what is the place of human beings in nature?

Nevertheless, the faith that God is the Lord of history; that even atomic energy is God's energy to be used for human good and not for mutual destruction; that no nation is sovereign in its own right but that God alone is the sovereign Ruler of the world — such a faith makes a vast difference in the way we deal with political issues.

However, you do not have the right to defame or use derogatory teminology aimed specifically at another human being.

His human rights record was among the worst in the world, and he used chemical weapons on both Kurds in his country and Iranians.

Using the Deuteronomic Creed as model, Dalit theology can construct the historical Dalit consciousness which has to do with their roots, identities and struggle for human dignity and «for the right to live as free people created in the image of God.»

In determining the «core rights» that constitute the heart of our human rights agenda, it is important to consider the way we use language.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.