Sentences with phrase «justice challenges in»

The AFCC Access to Family Court Services Task Force was appointed by AFCC President Dick Altman in 2014 to examine access to justice challenges in the family courts.
While there are many dedicated individuals and organizations working towards solutions to access to justice challenges in Ontario, there is also a recognized and critical need to increase efficiency, coordination and innovation.
The East Bay SPCA's Humane Education Department has a unique program for teachers to use in the classroom to help students learn about animal welfare, human rights, environmental protection, and social justice challenges in our community.
Last June, I reported on the plan by BYU Law School to launch LawX, a legal design lab in which second - and third - year law students would take on the ambitious goal of solving one access - to - justice challenge in a semester.
CONAF is one of four organizations to receive seed funding through WJP's World Justice Challenge in Senegal in 2015.

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King also interrogated the concept of allyship, challenging the «white liberal who is more devoted to «order» than to justice, who prefers tranquility to equality» in his 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department is preparing a lawsuit to challenge the deal in case an agreement can't be reached between the government and the companies.
In September 2017, the European Court of Justice rejected Hungary and Slovakia's challenge to the quotas, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has vowed to fight on.
The Virginia residents challenging their state districting plan said the lower court ignored a 2015 Supreme Court decision about Alabama in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four more liberal justices to order a review of state legislative districts.
What sets humans apart is love, i.e. our feeling for justice, our creativity in the face of challenges, our ability to empathize deeply and respond wisely.
In March, the US Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Colorado's legalization of the drug, and, in May, the US Department of Justice dropped its four - year effort to shutter Harborside Health Center — the largest medical - marijuana dispensary in the countrIn March, the US Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Colorado's legalization of the drug, and, in May, the US Department of Justice dropped its four - year effort to shutter Harborside Health Center — the largest medical - marijuana dispensary in the countrin May, the US Department of Justice dropped its four - year effort to shutter Harborside Health Center — the largest medical - marijuana dispensary in the countrin the country.
The challenge is particularly important because it's one of the first business cases to be heard, and potentially decided, with just eight justices, following the death of Antonin Scalia in February.
The $ 117 million deal addresses «a key concern of the U.S. Department of Justice in its challenge to the Aetna - Humana transaction» by giving seniors more options for Medicare coverage, Aetna said in a statement.
The five lawsuits to block the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule continued to move forward in July in separate venues, but the Department of Justice strongly defended the rule in a Washington, D.C., federal district court challenging the suit filed by the National Association for Fixed Annuities, or NAFA.
In 1982 and 1984, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FTC issued new merger guidelines outlining the framework that officials would use when reviewing horizontal deals.135 The 1984 version included guidelines specific to vertical deals.136 Part of a sweeping effort to overhaul antitrust enforcement, the new guidelines narrowed the circumstances in which the agencies would challenge vertical mergers.137 Although the guidelines acknowledged that vertical mergers could sometimes give rise to competitive concerns, in practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical dealIn 1982 and 1984, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FTC issued new merger guidelines outlining the framework that officials would use when reviewing horizontal deals.135 The 1984 version included guidelines specific to vertical deals.136 Part of a sweeping effort to overhaul antitrust enforcement, the new guidelines narrowed the circumstances in which the agencies would challenge vertical mergers.137 Although the guidelines acknowledged that vertical mergers could sometimes give rise to competitive concerns, in practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical dealin which the agencies would challenge vertical mergers.137 Although the guidelines acknowledged that vertical mergers could sometimes give rise to competitive concerns, in practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical dealin practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical deals.
We focus our approach to diversity not just from a social justice perspective, but as a business opportunity which, in my view, is the best way to overcome the systemic challenges.
One official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said that Mr. Trump was sympathetic to the plight of the young immigrants, known as Dreamers — many have known life only in the United States and have few connections to the countries of their birth — but had been told by Justice Department lawyers that his predecessor's program would not survive a court challenge.
Girls, young women, subject matter experts from the justice, law enforcement, and information and communication technology (ICT) sectors, along with educators, parents, program workers from across the country participated in consultations to identity gaps, challenges, promising practices, and recommendations for strategies to end cyberviolence.
The church is not authorized to represent the reign of God, his justice and peace, in any other way than that in which Jesus represented it, namely by being partners with him in challenging the powers of evil and bearing in its own life the cost of the challenge.
And in truth prudent privatization could address more effectively «social justice» issues than single - payer schemes given our demographic and debt challenges.
Connect with groups like the Micah Challenge (www.micahchallengeusa.org) to learn the spiritual elements involved in climate justice.
«I sat on the edge of my seat as this preacher challenged us to participate in the cause of justice, not to slumber while the world changed around us.
But in the midst of those challenges, they have something to teach Christians and the world at large: a way of being Christian that requires us to rethink some of the disconnects between our love of God and our love of justice, or our ability to talk about personal spirituality without also talking about social transformation.
How challenging it is to even want to pray for one's enemies rather than strike a win for justice in the battle of the moment.
But as much as John Paul appreciated the United States, he kept his independence and issued a series of declarations about social justice and peace that challenged many Americans — both on the domestic front and in foreign affairs.
With the changing demographics in America, including the racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, immigration, and biblical justice challenges of our day, it is more important than ever for people of color to have safe places to live authentically, serve humbly, and use their influence and experiences to shape our theology (what we know and believe about God) and our praxis (the ethics of our human behavior or what we actually do).
Yet if the most important development in that doctrine in Caritas in Veritate is a strong linkage of the life issues to Catholic social - justice concerns, then it is also true that the challenge of this particular encyclical falls more sharply on those who believe that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided, and remedied an injustice in prior American law.»
Politically, the lordship of Christ challenges systems of domination in the name of God's passion for justice.
The lesson to be learned is the value of diversity; our challenge today is to develop, with equal imagination and enthusiasm, a diversity of spiritualities that corresponds to people's diverse needs, keeping in view the love - justice that unites all of us and a common faith in creation and incarnation.
«In addition, as the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change works with the state government to deliver democratic dividends, we urge it to also assist in addressing the challenges to rule of law posed by these arrests and prosecutions, encouraging respect for press freedom and advocating for protection and justice for targeted communities in southern Kaduna.&raquIn addition, as the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change works with the state government to deliver democratic dividends, we urge it to also assist in addressing the challenges to rule of law posed by these arrests and prosecutions, encouraging respect for press freedom and advocating for protection and justice for targeted communities in southern Kaduna.&raquin addressing the challenges to rule of law posed by these arrests and prosecutions, encouraging respect for press freedom and advocating for protection and justice for targeted communities in southern Kaduna.&raquin southern Kaduna.»
Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.
America's Roman Catholic bishops write that the «challenge of today is to move beyond abstract disputes about whether more or less government intervention is needed, to consideration of creative ways of enabling government and private groups to work together effectively» (Economic Justice for All) The truth of this declaration is evident in the U.S. housing...
Christianity was necessary as well as true because in Niebuhr's eyes it was the only available faith that challenged men and women to struggle for justice while chastising them for their sins.
Many young people in Latin America, who were motivated by the Gospel to love their neighbor and be concerned for justice and freedom in their society, have often become Marxists simply because their churches did not provide biblical instruction about Christian discipleship, or because they [their churches] were blind to clear demands from the Bible and opportunities and challenges provided by new social situations.80
The challenge is to make churches everywhere accountable to each other in struggling over God's justice teaching.
Sarah Bessey's reflections on faith and feminism and Osheta Moore's practical guidance on justice and peace challenged me to live as a more faithful follower of Jesus in those quiet, unpublicized moments when faithfulness really matters.
In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»
In this emerging world community our challenge today is to look around at the other religions of the world and their prophets and to see what insights we can glean from them in the struggle for justice and freedoIn this emerging world community our challenge today is to look around at the other religions of the world and their prophets and to see what insights we can glean from them in the struggle for justice and freedoin the struggle for justice and freedom.
In her recent book, Poetic Justice, Martha Nussbaum directly accepts the Socratic challenge.
So infanticide, revenge, murder, maiming and even massacre are all part of the sprawling plot, but in a genre - challenging twist, justice is rarely served.
Wednesday evening, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who handles emergency appeals from the 10th Circuit Court, said the company failed to meet «the demanding standard for the extraordinary relief,» and that it could continue to pursue its challenge in lower courts and return to the higher court, if necessary, after a final judgment.
The link between justice and ecological issues becomes especially evident in light of the dualistic, hierarchical mode of Western thought in which a superior and an inferior are correlated: male - female, white people — people of color, heterosexual - homosexual, able - bodied — physically challenged, culture - nature, mind - body, human - nonhuman.
Three Court of Appeal judges on Monday dismissed a challenge to Mr Justice Hayden's decision after analysing argument at a hearing in London.
Having advanced the ideal of ecological justice based on the ethical implications of the Christian tradition, the statement concludes with a challenge to the churches — one that is appropriately set in visionary terms.
It becomes clear in their asking that these questions pose an unmistakable challenge to the churches to wrestle seriously with the question of the justice of the entire economic system as it is presently evolving.
The document will suggest that climate justice is something that «echoes clearly the challenges found in the biblical prophets to a complacent and short - sighted society.»
Christocentrism could no longer cope with the challenge of religious pluralism; universalism did not grasp the depth of alienation among the poor and the marginalized; salvation history did not do justice to the plural histories of the world's many cultures and nations; the unity of the Church in Christ offered no power or guidance in overcoming sexism, racism and human exploitation.
There is much to be said, for instance, on behalf of Justice Kennedy's complaint that the decision deprives the people of California of the right to govern themselves by referenda, if the losers of a plebiscite can challenge the outcome and, with the collusion of friendly state officials unwilling to defend the people's will, win in court what they can not win at the ballot box.
This allows us to face the challenges of our time soberly, neither despairing of the possibilities of justice in public life and thus withdrawing, nor seeking to take command of history by embarking on grandiose ideological projects that encourage us to assume godlike powers over human affairs.
Without taking a strong stand on the controversial question of whether inter-species relationships ought to be governed by justicein other words, the question of whether we owe anything to animals as such — the author establishes all sorts of interesting parallels between evolutionary biology and traditional theology in this area, as well as challenges from one to the other.
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