Sentences with phrase «in a human rights»

In some cases, becoming complicit in human rights violations will be either inevitable, or simply overwhelmingly tempting.

Of particular interest is the fact that Canadian mining company Nevsun Resources Ltd is implicated in these human rights abuses.

In response, the fund's ethics council began an ongoing assessment of whether any of the companies in the fund might be involved in human rights violations (forced labour particularly) in Eritrea.

Wells Fargo, in Human Rights Campaign's most recent corporate equality index, an annual ranking of the nation's largest businesses for LGBT workplace fairness, has a perfect score of 100.

Cindy, with her strong background in human rights and respect for women fully agrees with me in this.

Described by the New York Times «a super-specialist» in human rights activism, Simon Billenness has over 25 years of experience in advising investors on shareholder advocacy.

Yesterday's decision in Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC, the U.S. Supreme Court's third major decision involving the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), continues a trend of reining in human rights activists» efforts to police private businesses» overseas conduct through ATS litigation.

In Asia, while problems remain, many economies have made important advances in human rights — particularly in raising living standards.

How can Canada successfully engage China and other Asian powers in a human rights dialogue that benefits their citizens?

For the sixth consecutive year, AIG has achieved a 100 % rating in the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index and earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work for LGBT equality.

Most provinces and territories also have pay equity provisions in their human rights statutes, but the Alberta Human Rights Act, RSA 2000, c A - 25.5 is deficient in not mandating equal pay for work of equal value, only for «the same or substantially similar work» (s 6 (1); see also Lahey).

While Jews struggled to leave the Soviet Union for Israel and the West, American activists joined in the human rights battle.

Its an issue in human rights and separation of church and state and that all people have rights despite the wish of a few relgions to push their personal beliefs on others.

In human rights terms, we must hang together or will be hanged separately.

• The Ford Foundation is looking for someone to direct a program in human rights and democratic governance.

Mammon, incarnating as MNCs, must be slain if common people are to be safe in their human rights.

In Human Rights in Religious Traditions (Pilgrim Press, 1982), Rabbi Daniel Polish concludes that the idea of human rights «derives in the Jewish tradition from the basic theological affirmation of Jewish faith.»

The advances in human rights of which we Americans can be justly proud (however partial they might yet be) can be traced to the fact that they were successfully advocated as a development out of the traditions which long predate the founding of the American republic.

The growth, indeed explosion, of interest in human rights in the last couple of decades has not been an unmixed blessing.

While Smedes and the other editors of The Reformed Journal do not deny the need or desirability of Christian acts of compassion, they argue that structural violence demands social redress that goes beyond benevolence, being based first of all in the human rights of the victims.

Unlike many anxious Europeans, Burleigh welcomes the immigration of Muslims to the Continent but believes there need to be certain ground rules for entry» tolerance, for example; acceptance and respect for democratic and republican values; a belief in human rights, especially the basic rights of women» even as he knows these are in short supply.

Now the Georgetown University Law Centre has established a Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights.

Thanks in significant part to the Universal Declaration, the last half century has seen explosive growth in human rights consciousness and activism, and in international human rights laws and institutions.

Lotfy is a lawyer who specializes in human rights cases and also a member of a youth coalition that comprises young Egyptian revolutionaries of varied ideologies.

While abundant, dramatic violations of human rights still dominate the headlines, the last half - century has seen explosive growth in human rights consciousness and activism and in international humans rights laws and institutions.

In recent years the International Court of Justice — the World Court — has ruled against the U.S. in human rights cases brought by Nicaragua and Paraguay.

As this debate proceeds, some specialists in human rights law have suggested that it might be useful to rethink the whole process of innovation that the United Nations system constantly presents to us.

The fast - growing peace movements in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia and elsewhere have assumed a legal sanction in human rights law.

For instance one could test for increase in human rights Vs rate of disappearances.

For example, if you believe in human rights, you are a religious humanist, because a pure atheist would realize it makes no sense for blobs of protein molecules to have «rights.»

The Salvadoran government and the U.S. embassy speak about quantitative improvements in human rights.

The photos in the Human Rights office reminded me of personal testimonies I had heard from dozens of mothers who, like many hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans, had been brutalized and displaced in the U.S. backed war.

My Witherspoon Institute colleague, Distinguished Senior Fellow in Human Rights Chen Guangcheng, will speak at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. next Tuesday, June 3, at 2:00 p.m., to mark the 25th anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square, perpetrated by the tyrants of....

If you take a look at countries that have been «liberated», they don't do so well in the human rights dept.

That's hardly true Zippy, if anything most European countries do better than the US in the human rights dept., and they are less religious.

It is also seen as further confirmation that the patriarch's apparent release was a ruse by the government to offset international criticism by giving the impression of an improvement in human rights, as well as to ease the path to succession for Bishop Lukas.

It has to, it is the correct evolution in human rights and can not be stopped or ignored.

In a human rights court, litigants from religious communities have a right to think the judges will treat them fairly and, to the extent possible, decide cases without bias.

All we know for sure is that not believing in human rights — in personal freedom — has intolerable moral consequences.

Frank Wolf also understood that consistency in human rights work meant being a pro-life advocate.

Sarah graduated from Griffith University with a background in human rights advocacy and youth leadership.

You've got to love Daily Mail's feigned interest in human rights laws and their impact on society as they are clearly only interested in being able to unearth the footballer in question so as to sell newspapers and get people on their bigoted website.

She has an active interest in human rights & mental health.

Advocates and Cuomo have contended all along that the same - sex marriage bill is a civil matter and that enough protections are already enshrined in the Human Rights Law.

She holds a PhD in International Relations and a Masters in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

The U.S. version allows freezing of assets for those suspected of being involved in human rights abuses which many would argue poisoning would qualify, but it's unclear yet on what exactly a U.K. version would include.

Bedlam in the human rights chamber, now as quiet as the grave yard?

We believe deeply in human rights and civil rights and I don't like that kind of thing at all and certainly Tom didn't engage in it and Lovely didn't either,» said Morelle.

A media ethnography conducted in Mexico in 2006, before and after the presidential elections, can illuminate what journalists are trying to do in their human rights coverage and how their outlooks and contexts condition the incidents that are covered.

She studied Law at the University of Kent before practising as a barrister from 1985 to 2005, specialising in human rights law under the guidance of Michael Mansfield.