Sentences with phrase «in human protection»
As he readily admitted during his lecture, while the UN has endeavoured to engage in human protection, it has not always succeeded — for a mix of logistical and political reasons.
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The suits by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Human Rights Campaign, filed in federal courts in Baltimore and Seattle, claim Trump's plan violates the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution.
That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, more than 200 «anti-LGBTQ bills» were introduced across the country in 2016 sessions - most failing to pass - and more than 111 million people live in states without clear state - level protections against LGBTQ workplace discrimination.
As expert Jessica Shortall pointed out in her excellent piece for «The Atlantic», we do a better job of legislating protections for newborn kittens and puppies than we do for human infants.
«As things shift downwards, the degree to which the government will be tested is the degree to which the government has prepared for the inevitable downturn and built upon the natural and human assets of the province, in order to provide some protection from that downturn.»
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 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.
Though Canada has similar governance under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, the EU GDPR shows unique promise in allowing technology to complement existing procedures, while ensuring security remains in the hands of humans.
Whereas many animal charities draw funds primarily from within the movement (e.g., from other animal advocates and animal charities), GFI is seeking to reach potential donors whose primary interests are in environmental protection, the sustainability of the global food system, and human health.
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.
«The freedom of lawyers to defend their clients without facing harassment and intimidation is of paramount importance in ensuring the protection and promotion of human rights.
The «softer» language of equal protection, however, can not mask the fact that precious little room is left for states to assert their traditional interest in protecting human life.
Thus anticipating when it will rain, snow, be hot, cold, windy and so on, in some human cultures even talking, praying, and perform rituals to ask the earth for food, water, protection, shelter and so on.
We deeply admire your profound commitment and bold witness to the sanctity of human life in all stages and conditions and to the protection of the poor, the weak, and the vulnerable from womb to tomb.
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.»
This «moral reading» of the Constitution calls on judges to act as moral philosophers: «equal protection of the laws» should mean what best promotes «equal concern and respect» for all humans; «liberty» in the «due process» clause should mean autonomy in matters important to personal development, and so forth.
Denying the divine origins of the human person, our government has withdrawn the law's protection from unborn children in the womb» the most absolutely innocent and defenseless members of our human family.
If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.
As a world leader for freedom and the protection of basic human rights, the United States should take every opportunity to advocate for people — including Americans here at home — to think, believe, and act according to their religious belief whether they belong to a minority or majority religion in their nation.»
During his time in the Senate, Brownback co-chaired the Congressional Human Rights Caucus and championed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
The Code of Federal Regulations (49 CFR Part II) sets forth federal policy for the protection of human subjects in medical experimentation, mandating the establishment of an institutional review board (IRB) in each hospital in which human subjects are used for experimentation.
For this reason the legend must be told in such a way that two things are apparent: how the saint was so holy that he controlled his surroundings; and how his life, from infancy, was under divine guidance and protection and hence was lifted out, by God Himself, from the mass of human misfortune.
«As rightly observed in the article Overlapping International and European Laws: «Environmental protection has become a fertile source of laws, international, European and national, since the U.N. sponsored the Stockholm Conference of 1972 and its Declaration on, and Action Programme for the Human Environment.
Georgetown law professor Drinan fills a gap in the literature with this concise, readable survey of the evolution of human rights protection from the late 1940s to the present.
For the animal it is the bare protection of the body; for a human being it has to be a suitable accommodation which would allow him to grow in every aspect - physical, mental and intellectual.
It is the protection, guidance, and release of the power to love in all the human ways, and the power to give love to God and the neighbour, which justifies the restraints, disciplines and prohibitions in the Christian ideal of the union of man and woman.
Christian education is in the world and for the world... man must work out his salvation in the concrete situation in which God has placed him; not by protection but by contributing to the whole human community of which he is an integral and inseparable part... parents, who have the first and the inalienable right and duty to educate their children, should enjoy true freedom in the choice of their schools, etc..»
I believe in freedom, justice, equality, human rights, compassion, charity, environmental protection and democracy.
Less than a decade ago, during the national debate on ENDA (The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act), a major beach - head in the gay movement, 68 percent of respondents in a poll of gays and lesbians commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said it was acceptable to exclude their T colleagues from the protections sought in this legislation.
That trial produced the Nuremberg Code of 1946 that began to provide protection for human subjects of research and inspired, in due course, the Declarations of Helsinki in 1964 and 1975.
Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.
Since globalization increases inequality in society, it worsens the situation for the protection of the human rights of the poor.
In our own time, the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, struck down the abortion laws of all fifty states, effectively wiping out all legal protection of unborn human beings against being killed upon the request of their motherIn our own time, the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, struck down the abortion laws of all fifty states, effectively wiping out all legal protection of unborn human beings against being killed upon the request of their motherin Roe v. Wade, struck down the abortion laws of all fifty states, effectively wiping out all legal protection of unborn human beings against being killed upon the request of their mothers.
As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.
Then, once the «reproductive rights» language is adopted, CRLP and others take that language back to the legal systems of the participating nations and claim (as the CRLP did in its own lawsuit) that such «agreements... favor protection of reproductive rights, including abortion, as internationally recognized human rights.»
You can check out your favorite stores on BetterWorldShopper.org (they have an app, too, if you want to check it on the go) where they grade companies A-F (just like in school) based upon 5 issues: human rights, environment, animal protection, community involvement and social justice.
Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.
In Christian Scripture and tradition, then, we find an ethic of care for strangers that renders precarious the protection of daughters; an ethic of chastity — laden with innuendos of pleasure, lust and pride — that renders precarious the moral standing and human rights of women; and an ethic of Christian duty that renders precarious the basic safety of wives.
When humans persist in sin despite God's frequent attempts to call them toward obedience and to warn them of what will happen if they continue down the path they are on, there comes a point where sometimes, God simply withdraws His hand of protection and allows people to suffer the consequences for their sin, for chaos to reign, and for Satan to bring death and destruction.
We can not be sure that The Flood had no relationship to all flesh around that area having «corrupted its way»... The very protection of mankind from natural disasters that were inevitable from the contingent, limited perfection of the planet Earth as a habitat, might well have been mediated to human communities by great prophetic souls, even as Christ prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem as a consequence of his rejection, and because «in the day of your visitation, you did not know the things that were to your peace».
Other people regard an embryo in the early weeks of pregnancy as not deserving of unqualified protection because, before we feel it to be human, we feel an obligation to spare the human - that - is - to - be unnecessary pain.
Therefore, in recognition of the biological reality that human life begins at the moment of fertilization, the unborn child is enti.tled to the protection of the law under all circu.mstances and at every stage of pregnancy.
They must support the principle of the protection of innocent human life and the implementation of that principle in law.»
Therefore, in recognition of the biological reality that human life begins at the moment of fertilization, the unborn child is ent.itled to the protection of the law under all circu.mstances and at every stage of pregnancy.
«In every locale, in other words, the conscientious Catholic politician will seek the principled recognition of the state's interest in the protection of unborn human life and the maximum possible legal implementation of that principle, given local political and cultural realitieIn every locale, in other words, the conscientious Catholic politician will seek the principled recognition of the state's interest in the protection of unborn human life and the maximum possible legal implementation of that principle, given local political and cultural realitiein other words, the conscientious Catholic politician will seek the principled recognition of the state's interest in the protection of unborn human life and the maximum possible legal implementation of that principle, given local political and cultural realitiein the protection of unborn human life and the maximum possible legal implementation of that principle, given local political and cultural realities.
Thirdly, in the world setting in which the protection of natural environment and organic processes of production and reproduction of life have become crucial for the continuation of human life itself, there is the felt need for a revival of the spirit of reverence for nature which you had preserved in your culture for ages.
So the court will hear cases involving violations of humans rights depicted in Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms from most of the countries in the Europe, regardless of their relationship with the EU.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party has in recent decades become the champion of the Church's public priorities — the protection of innocent human life, parental choice in education, the defense of marriage, church - state cooperation, and an array of issues under the rubric of religious freedom.
Publicly formulated guidelines from Health and Human Services, the Office for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research, the World Health Organization and World Scientific and Technological Associations should stringently guide all technical endeavor — especially when there is a temptation to act solely in terms of the profit factor.