Sentences with phrase «individual human rights»

While it is clear that there are cases internationally where women's individual human rights and minority rights are in conflict, international human rights law has yet to consider this issue in relation to Aboriginal customary law.

While all attempts should be made to reconcile women's individual human rights with the rights of Indigenous peoples to retain and enjoy their culture, HREOC considers that women's individual human rights must ultimately prevail.

While it is clear that there are cases internationally where women's individual human rights and minority rights are in conflict, international human rights law has yet to consider this issue in relation to Aboriginal Customary Law.

Yes I believe in individual human rights, however, I do also staunchly believe in the separation of religion and the state and do not believe that wanting the government to be secular will stop or impede on individual human rights.

Legislation must seek to balance individual human rights, in particular freedom of expression and rights to a private life, against the protection of vulnerable individuals and society as a whole.

Its influence survives as the symbolic guarantee of individual human rights for all.

While Canadian governments are bound by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms («Charter») each province has individual human rights laws that apply to selected activities of individuals and governments.

British Columbia is considered the most regressive jurisdiction in Canada for mental health detention and involuntary psychiatric treatment, with many practices violating individual human rights, according to a report released by the Community Legal Assistance Society of B.C.

It was the government that required employers to attest that: «Both the job and the organization's core mandate respect individual human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as other rights.

So, putting the new supplemental definitions of «core mandate» and «respect» to the attestation we get: «Both the job and the applicant's primary activities do not seek to remove or actively undermine existing individual human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights...»

In conclusion, one can state that the primacy of EU law, as interpreted by the ECJ inTaricco I ruling, does not conflict with national fundamental human rights; indeed, like Italy, even the other EU Member States, together with individual human rights, protect fundamental social rights.

Smaller missions, such as to Kenya (1988) to attend an inquest into the death of a man who had been tortured and document how the court applied the medical evidence, and to the Sudan (1990) to investigate the jailing of physicians and scientists, provided experiences for AAAS to contribute directly to individual human rights cases as well as learn lessons on the political and cultural complexities of human rights work.

Mr. Hain said: «I think he is right to say that we need tougher powers, but they need to be overseen by the courts and by Parliament, and try to be underpinned as well by an all - party consensus, possibly through the Privy Council, because that way, people will know we are ¿ jealously guarding individual human rights.»

If adopted, the bill which is copied from repressive countries like Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda, would have a chilling effect not only on expressions of peaceful dissent by the citizens but also on the legitimate work of NGOs and individual human rights defenders and activists scrutinizing corruption in the National Assembly and exposing human rights violations by the government.»

Whenever citizens pursue different economic interests, individual human rights will be under serious threat.

This goes back to the point i was trying to make that humanism and belief in individual human rights are irrational, and are a form of faith.

«This goes back to the point i was trying to make that humanism and belief in individual human rights are irrational»

IWB is determined to document the treatment of refugees in EU countries by deconstructing dominant media caricatures and political sentiments which would seek to in some way justify denying these individuals their human rights.

A state can deny individuals their human rights by denying them access the healthcare, education, or other social goods.

Not exact matches

«We believe every individual has a basic human right to access actionable healthcare information when they need it the most — at a time when they have an opportunity to change outcomes and live better lives.

But shortly afterward, two individuals — Abadi Gebremeskel and Legesse Berh — joined the endless stream of refugees arriving at Tigray, Ethiopia, and were subsequently interviewed by London - based Human Rights Concern Eritrea.

The other items on that list, from human rights to copyright protection, must also be explored and tested on an individual basis.

Human rights are about accommodation and equality and providing as level a playing field as you possibly can, and the way you do that is to look at the individual circumstances.»

In their letter, the groups said the breach caused «incalculable harm» and suggested several of the affected individuals had already filed complaints with the Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights or other state authorities.

It was unclear how far the court would go to shield businesses and perhaps individuals as well from the human rights lawsuits under the 223 - year - old Alien Tort Statute.

These individual American attitudes may have changed corporate culture seeing that 89 % of Fortune 500 companies implemented their own policies prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation according to Human Rights Campaign.

Earlier that same month, it received a perfect score as a «best place to work» for LGBTQ individuals from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

Right, Yeshua was a deluded individual that inspired billions of people from various religions and of no religion, transforming lives that were very destructive and turning people into decent human beings — for over 2000 years.

I agree with L.Nielsen's sentiment that you are «almost there» — close to realising that this is the only life you have and that all your effort should be directed at living it well for it's own sake, close to realising that you are strong enough as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you are a good human being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.

The proper course, it seems to me, is for church leaders and people of good will to make every effort to connect the human - rights project to an affirmation of the essential interplay between individual rights and democratic values.

Wary of the dangers that radical subjectivism and moral fanaticism pose for social solidarity and cultural coexistence, he urges us to practice humility, civility, and humor in our political dealings while holding fast to core principles such as individual freedom and human rights.

The Sacred Cow of today's society is what could be described as «human autonomy»; the «right» of the individual to do what he or she likes — whenever, wherever...

If ethics is allowed to be controlled by the laws of any individual state there is a danger of returning to legal positivism, where the laws of a single state are allowed to contradict universal human rights, allowing residents of that state «legally» to carry out actions that are totally unacceptable to the international community and the Catholic Church.

The fact that President Trump's executive order allows the government to prioritize individual claims of religious - based persecution from religious minorities — whether Christian, Yazidi, Jew, Muslim, Bahá» í, Buddhist, etc. — should be welcome news to every Christian and everyone concerned with human rights and religious freedom.

A campaign aimed at saving the life of a Christian woman sentenced to death in Sudan has drawn global support from governments, human rights charities and thousands of individuals.

Islam, in placing the responsibility on each individual, makes no distinction between human beings; each is given the same rights and responsibilities regardless of his sex, race, color, or other differences.

The protection of human rights is the business not just of the state but of «every individual and organ of society» (Preamble).

It evolved from constitutional traditions respecting private property and individual rights, it arose from religious teachings about human dignity, and it sprang from the mind of Kant.

And religious faiths often inspire individuals and communities to transcend their limitations in acts of reconciliation and justice through human rights campaigns and acts of mercy.

Our task today is to clearly unpack the nature and virtues of minimal government, now forever wed to the notion of securing rights, without slipping into a anthropological minimalism that radically liberates the abstract human individual at the price of devaluing the complete human person.

The problem may not be with rights per se, whose articulation is invaluable to our conception of modern republicanism (and may even help more fully articulate what is true about Christian morality), but with an interpretation that takes rights as the whole of moral discourse and therefore, understands the abstract Lockean individual to be a comprehensive account of the human person.

For historical precedents in the West to the contemporary concern with individual animals, see selections from Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Salt in Animal Rights and Human Obligations.

The Declaration «affirms the worth, dignity and autonomy of the individual and the right of every human being to the greatest possible freedom compatible with the rights of others».

This writing details various theories of human rights: Do all human individuals have human rights?

Modern moral and political thought has often focused on the question of human rights: What rights, if any, belong to all human individuals solely because they are human?

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.

Since communicative rights define every human individual as a potential participant in discourse, their content can be derived from the necessary conditions of moral discourse as a specific social practice.

But the affirmation that all human individuals have certain substantive rights democratic communities should secure is one thing, and the assertion that these rights should be stipulated in a political constitution is something else.

Furthermore, theological affirmations regarding the divinely appointed vocation of each individual coincide with concern for the civil and human rights of each person born into the world, no matter how conceived.

A number of dictatorial countries» including some that Freedom House has ranked among the worst violators of human rights» flatly asserted that individual rights must remain subservient to those of the state, a stipulation that, if accepted, would effectively strip the individual citizen of his rights.