Sentences with phrase «in universal human rights»

The particularity of the American regime is counterpoised by its foundation in universal human rights, the modern articulation of our equality as beings created in the image of God.

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Adequate health care and the right to security during sickness is guaranteed under Article 25 of the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights, however these rights are regularly violated and, for those in our nation least able to afford it, access to affordable health care often remains out of Rights, however these rights are regularly violated and, for those in our nation least able to afford it, access to affordable health care often remains out of rights are regularly violated and, for those in our nation least able to afford it, access to affordable health care often remains out of reach.

We wrote Tuesday about the U.S. State Department's document, «Report of the United States of America Submitted to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights In Conjunction with the Universal Periodic Review.»

«The United States stands in solidarity with Pastor Nadarkhani, his family, and all those who seek to practice their religion without fear of persecution - a fundamental and universal human right.»

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.

And in reducing freedom of religion to «freedom of worship» in its political and diplomatic pronouncements, the United States can no longer invoke the First Amendment and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, thus weakening its ability to combat the international movement to criminalize religious speech.

The openhearted observer of Islam in the West can discern the shape of hope in the increasing willingness of people of the two faiths to come together for dialogue and consultation on the mutual problems they face; in the reevaluation of Islam forced upon Muslims by their minority status in many places; and in the development of the concept of international law and universal human rights.

The present regime claims to be secular, deriving its values from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and «neutral» in respect of the different religions of Ethiopia.

The objectives of the Charter of Medina provide a suitable framework for national constitutions in countries with Muslim majorities, and the United Nations Charter and related documents, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are in harmony with the Charter of Medina, including consideration for public order.

The Declaration's language of universal human rights is not the only moral language available to us in confronting threats to human dignity.

Moreover, in our time the language of universal human rights is the most available discourse for cross-cultural deliberation about the dignity of the human person.

Complaints about the cultural «imposition» of ideas about universal human rights are, more often than not, in the service of nationalism, racism, ideology, or power politics - or all of these in combination.

Walter Harrelson's little book, The Ten Commandments and Human Rights (Fortress, 1980), is one of the most important recent attempts to show how the biblical understanding of human obligation under God gave rise to the principles present in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human RiHuman Rights (Fortress, 1980), is one of the most important recent attempts to show how the biblical understanding of human obligation under God gave rise to the principles present in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rihuman obligation under God gave rise to the principles present in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human RiHuman Rights.

Murders most foul, on a massive scale, in the name of the United Nations makes a mockery of human rights and a trickery of the Universal Declaration.

To say the least, universal human rights would be impossible to sustain in such an intellectual milieu.

I have pursued an outline of formative human rights in order to argue programmatically that a moral and political theory backed by neoclassical metaphysics may be understood to prescribe the universal principle of communicative respect as an indirect application of a comprehensive telos.

In agreement with most nonteleological expressions in the liberal political tradition, this theory affirms that rights articulate a universal or natural moral law; but, against the persisting weight of the modern natural law tradition, the universal right to general emancipation is not bound to the assertion that human rights are independent of any inclusive gooIn agreement with most nonteleological expressions in the liberal political tradition, this theory affirms that rights articulate a universal or natural moral law; but, against the persisting weight of the modern natural law tradition, the universal right to general emancipation is not bound to the assertion that human rights are independent of any inclusive gooin the liberal political tradition, this theory affirms that rights articulate a universal or natural moral law; but, against the persisting weight of the modern natural law tradition, the universal right to general emancipation is not bound to the assertion that human rights are independent of any inclusive good.

Independently of anything about the larger context, in other words, universal rights are grounded in the moral qualities of human persons.

Both of these statements support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but justify and define these rights in terms of Islamic law and ScriRights, but justify and define these rights in terms of Islamic law and Scrirights in terms of Islamic law and Scripture.

History is not the inevitable march of progress, but there can be progress in history, and the last half century's widespread promulgation of the belief that there are universal human rights is an instance of progress.

We can also say, then, that all human individuals always have the rights that define them as potential participants in moral discourse, one of which is the right to be or become an actual participant in such discourse, and these universal rights articulate a universal social practice.

John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significantRights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significantrights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significantrights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant ways.

This revolution in religious thought is exemplified by religious leaders» current support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was drafted by the UN Commission on Human Rights.

For example, as early as 20 years ago General Frederick Coutts of the Salvation Army wrote: «Salvationists are identified with the high ideals of social justice and acceptance of the unchallenged rights of every man as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights» (Human Rights and the Salvation Army [Campfield Press, 19681,rights of every man as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights» (Human Rights and the Salvation Army [Campfield Press, 19681,Rights» (Human Rights and the Salvation Army [Campfield Press, 19681,Rights and the Salvation Army [Campfield Press, 19681, p. 5)

«We condemn Iran's continued violation of the universal right of freedom of religion and we call on the Iranian authorities to respect Mr. Abedini's human rights and release him,» U.S. State Department spokesman Darby Holladay said in written statement.

Thus support for human rights in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities follows a pattern: each group believes that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradihuman rights in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities follows a pattern: each group believes that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradrights in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities follows a pattern: each group believes that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradiHuman Rights and other human rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradRights and other human rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradihuman rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradrights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradition.

In 1976 Roman Catholics joined Methodists and Lutherans in Bolivia in organizing a «Permanent Assembly on Human Rights» for the stated purpose of enforcing the Universal DeclaratioIn 1976 Roman Catholics joined Methodists and Lutherans in Bolivia in organizing a «Permanent Assembly on Human Rights» for the stated purpose of enforcing the Universal Declaratioin Bolivia in organizing a «Permanent Assembly on Human Rights» for the stated purpose of enforcing the Universal Declaratioin organizing a «Permanent Assembly on Human Rights» for the stated purpose of enforcing the Universal Declaration.

Perhaps the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a sign of a new world community in which the religious traditions will find common ground.

In particular, Lutheran theologian O. Frederick Nolde, who represented the Federal Council of Churches and was the first director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), lobbied very effectively for inclusion of human rights in the UN Charter and for specific provisions in the Universal DeclaratioIn particular, Lutheran theologian O. Frederick Nolde, who represented the Federal Council of Churches and was the first director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), lobbied very effectively for inclusion of human rights in the UN Charter and for specific provisions in the Universal Declaratioin the UN Charter and for specific provisions in the Universal Declaratioin the Universal Declaration.

Political Theology and Ethics (Fortress, 1984), and Walter Harrelson, who in The Ten Commandments and Human Rights (Fortress, 1980) embraced the Universal Declaration as a modern statement of biblical values.

Movements such as de-colonization, the rise of Communism — especially the expulsion of missionaries from China by the Communists — and the attempt to vindicate Human Rights culminating in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) have direct and indirect impact on mission understanding.

They intend their document, which has worked its way through several years of preparatory meetings, to be presented to the United Nations in 2000, adopted by the General Assembly in 2002, and eventually achieve the enduring status of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

It was the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Benedict again adverted to rights being grounded in natural law and requiring a transcendent horizon that illumines the dignity of the human peHuman Rights, and Benedict again adverted to rights being grounded in natural law and requiring a transcendent horizon that illumines the dignity of the human pRights, and Benedict again adverted to rights being grounded in natural law and requiring a transcendent horizon that illumines the dignity of the human prights being grounded in natural law and requiring a transcendent horizon that illumines the dignity of the human pehuman person.

If any human life has a universal objective right to exist, then it only follows that a life in the earliest stages of development does also.

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- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

All the same it is necessary to see also the limits of this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as it depended on the persons and groups that drafted it in the aftermath of World War II and the victory of Allied Nations.

While appreciating the immense value of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights we must work for its amplification to include global racial justice, in relation to population and land and resources.

It was Iran that was one of the prime movers in having all the Moslem countries reject the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

«We believe that human rights are better defended when they are considered, universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, as set out in the Vienna Declaration,» said Dion during the speech.

The best, because an abstract, propositional assent to religious freedom as a fundamental human right has never been more widely embraced, and codified in such documents as the Universal Declaration of Human Rihuman right has never been more widely embraced, and codified in such documents as the Universal Declaration of Human RiHuman Rights.

Entitled Article 18: From Rhetoric to Reality, it highlights that Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights hasn't been taken seriously in several instances across the world.

As is stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights adopted by the UN and signed by most nations.

The United States is one of a dwindling number of nations unenthusiastic about the application of world law when applied to its own conduct, but for reasons supplied by the author, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still a tool for people of conscience to use in the struggle for a world more respectful of human digHuman Rights is still a tool for people of conscience to use in the struggle for a world more respectful of human dighuman dignity.

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.

The Universal Declaration answers these challenges with a simple, broadly accepted premise: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights» (art. 1).

He tellingly reminds us that, at the United Nations in 1948, one of the principal drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was a member of the Chinese delegation, a dedicated Confucian who saw to it that that Declaration was not reductively individualist but had a social context.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a tool for people of conscience to use in the struggle for a world more respectful of human digHuman Rights is a tool for people of conscience to use in the struggle for a world more respectful of human dighuman dignity.

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It is cited amongst other places in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam issued in 1981 on the initiative of the Islamic Council of Europe, by Pope Benedict XVI in his lecture at the University of Regensburg, and then in thefollowing Open Letter to him from authoritative Muslim theologians and jurists.