Sentences with phrase «including economic equality»

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According to the World Economic Forum, two thirds of OECD countries have introduced policies on pay equality, including requiring some employers to publish calculations every year showing the gender pay gap.

The Liberal government has signalled that next Tuesday's budget will include initiatives to promote gender equality, improve the economic success of women, ensure more gender equality in boardrooms and ease access to capital for female entrepreneurs.

25) is a ringing declaration for economic equality; but the Levitical law includes canny compromises on sale prices, on differentiation between urban and rural properties, and on clerical privileges.

The group looked at a variety of factors to gauge equality including health, education, economic participation and political empowerment and found that gender equality is still 170 years away (that is, unless major changes are undertaken).

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

As is customary in State of the State speeches, Cuomo spent some of his Monday morning address looking back at accomplishments, touting the socio - economic progress under his leadership, including the passage of marriage equality, paid family leave, a $ 15 minimum wage program, and common - sense gun control.

«Social and economic equality empowers societies to engage in sustainable pathways, which includes, by the way, not only the sustainable use of natural resources but also slowing down population growth, to actively diminish the human footprint on the environment.»

Kopp shows some awareness of the absurdities of her own experiences — including a «fundraising schedule [that] shuttled me between two strikingly different economic spheres: our undersourced classrooms and the plush world of American philanthropy» — but she fails to grasp that this very gap is what makes her stated goal of equality unachievable.

Even if, by some miracle, some such policy were to come to pass, the long - term necessity for us to accept a lower overall standard of living, especially when that will require far more economic equality (perhaps including the confiscation of giant fortunes) and far less economic «freedom» (virtual destruction of the «free trade» system, a great deal more regulation of both financial markets and manufacturing industries).

Customary international law and international instruments, in particular the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), provide binding legal obligations on Australia in respect of the human rights of Indigenous Australians, including obligations of equality and non-discrimination in relation to economic, social and culturalEconomic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), provide binding legal obligations on Australia in respect of the human rights of Indigenous Australians, including obligations of equality and non-discrimination in relation to economic, social and culturaleconomic, social and cultural rights.