Sentences with phrase «individuals against abuse»

We help employees hold their employers accountable for unjust and discriminatory treatment at work, and we protect individuals against abuse and misconduct by government officials.

Not exact matches

This protects against corruption or abuse, and restores power back to the individual as information asymmetry is no longer a cost.

The institution is protected against easy abuse, but individual husbands can do awful things to individual wives.

Setting out his plans for a British Constitutional Convention, Mr Clegg said: «It would examine the role and powers of parliament and ministers; the way in which parliament is elected and held to account; the relationships between the nations of the United Kingdom; the concentration of power in Whitehall; and the need to strengthen basic individual rights and liberties against the abuse of state power.»

«To ensure real progress against abuse the commissioner must be truly independent, fully resourced, and equipped with extensive powers of investigation of both individual and systemic problems,» he said.

We need to do everything we can to protect individuals like Ms. Cummings and the proposed state law would make it easier to investigate claims of abuse against someone,» Legislator Lynne Dixon, North Collins, said after Thursday's vote.

The proposed reforms address many of the problems CPS workers face in doing their jobs and stiffen penalties for those who abuse children or abuse the CPS reporting system by filing false claims against individuals.

Ever since he became Attorney General, he abused his power and his position to intimidate his opponents — abusing the subpoena power against Wall Street banks, leaking damaging but irrelevant personal information about individual executives who didn't bend to his wishes, and threatening anybody who dared to stand up to him.

It focuses on the individual decisions of women instead of on the actual issues that prevent them from disclosing all of the instances in which they were discriminated against, harassed, abused and exploited by men.

Picking up an award from the London Film Critics» Circle, Winslet said, «there are directors, producers, and men of power who have for decades been awarded and applauded for their highly regarded work... As women around the world and from all walks of life marched last weekend, once again joining together to speak out against harassment, exploitation, and abuse, I realised that I wouldn't be able to stand here this evening and keep to myself some bitter regrets that I have about poor decisions to work with individuals with whom I wish I had not.»

Recent allegations of animal abuse against two individuals have spawned proposed legislation on a statewide level in New York and in Hillsborough County, Florida.

In our fricative moment, in which individuals fray and flare up against society's abuses of power on these very terms, Piper's letters are prescient.

Since joining the CCLA in 2009, Des Rosiers has boosted its reach and influence in the fight against government abuse and supporting individual rights.

VLS staff and attorney volunteers assist by providing free legal services to individuals and families, such as helping victims of abuse end violent relationships, connecting persons with disabilities with medical and financial benefits, and keeping people out of homelessness by defending against wrongful evictions and foreclosures.

The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations also provide protection for individuals against any unfair treatment or abuse due to their «religion, religious belief or similar philosophical belief».

(2) causes the other person, a member of the other person's family or household, or an individual with whom the other person has a dating relationship to be placed in fear of bodily injury or death or in fear that an offense will be committed against the other person's property, or to feel harassed, annoyed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed, or offended; and

She currently focuses on advising and defending leading financial institutions against individual and class claims for violation of federal and state lending laws and violation of the violation of the Commodity Exchange Act, mortgage servicing claims, elder abuse and personal injury claims, and consumer protection and unfair competition claims.

As a result, ILR is urging policymakers in Europe (both in individual countries and at the EU level), Australia, Asia, and Latin America to think twice before adopting class actions without safeguards against abuse.

We believe that nursing home lawsuits are important for two primary reasons: 1) provide compensation to victims of abuse; and 2) safeguard against unscrupulous individuals and companies that prey on the elderly and disabled.

Our Toronto lawyers have handled all manner of sex abuse cases, including church abuse cases, claims and abuse / assault lawsuits against priests and clergy, as well as cases against institutions and individuals.

I have practiced in the area of sexual abuse for nearly two decades, and have observed that when one «sees over and over again the profound damage wrought by sexual abuse and being constantly reminded of the depravity and evil perpetrated against vulnerable individuals, one has to question why it is that awards in this area are not more consistently, or even sporadically, higher than they have been to date.»

In practice most child abuse compensation claims are brought against an institutional defendant rather than the individual abuser who committed the abuse.

For the rule of law to exist, citizens (and others) must have a right of access to an independent lawyer who is able to defend their freedoms without fear or interference, and to ensure that their individual rights are protected against abuses and excesses of power by the state and by those acting in its name.

[1] The moving party, Amnesty International («Amnesty»), brings this motion for an Order granting it leave to intervene in three related actions brought by the individual plaintiffs, Mayan Q'eqchi» individuals from Guatemala, who claim alleged human rights abuses committed against them by the subsidiaries of Canadian mining companies.

The obligation to protect requires Australia to protect individuals and groups against human rights abuses — whether by private or government actors.

From the earliest days of compulsory acquisition legislation in England and Australia, statutory provisions affording powers to governments or their agencies to acquire the property interests of individuals have been interpreted with considerable vigilance to protect those affected against abuse.

He has previously served as a Board member of No to Violence, the Victorian state - wide peak body of organisations and individuals working with men to end their violence and abuse against family members.