Sentences with phrase «justice community there»

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There is justice and laughter and community and goodness.

Community life is corrupt - there is lack of justice and righteousness.

The implication could not be plainer: Because a community once founded will stand or fall together, and because one man's virtue is not sufficient, there is urgent need for education and transmission, beginning with a well - ordered house and with political measures to secure justice in the community.

If there is any will or motivation to see that the laws are obeyed and that justice is done, it must come out of the hearts of the citizenry, from the will and ability of the people to act on behalf of the greater community.

As evangelicals dialogue among themselves, they will discover that there is presently lacking in sections of their community a commitment to ground social ethics in a Biblically based understanding of «social justice.»

And there can be no community without some consensus about fairness and justice, whether these terms are used or others.

But aside from that this potential can be used for good (such as orienting us as a community to bring practical expressions of God's love to the world, such as pursuing social justice) or for evil (such as when we turn our worship services into corporate naval gazing that never moves beyond the intention to touch the world — there is far too much of this kinda BS pretending to be worship of God, the Bible would call this idolatry).

Examples of such communities springing up across Canada (and lam sure there are similar ones in the U. S.) are outlined by Tony Clarke, «Communities for Justice,» Ecumenist, 19/2, 1981,17 - 25.

I don't mean to excuse a lack of critical thinking, not at all, there's a good place for it — in creativity, in writing, in social justice, in community, in marriages, in parenting, all of it — but in all of those arenas, I hope I'm marred by dust and sweat and blood, I hope I dare greatly.

To re-discover and reaffirm a fundamental agreement between these monotheistic «ways» is important and urgent because, as the letter affirms, «without peace and justice between these two religious communities, there can be no meaningful peace in the world.»

«There also needs to be more resources to enable the international community to document human rights abuses and bring people to justice.

When there are injustices in a community and the members of a church are in positions of power, it is their Christian witness also to use their positions in the secular world to work for justice.

«Londoners have made clear that there are no excuses for violence, and I call on all members of local communities to work constructively with the police to help them bring these criminals to justice,» she said.

There is a form of justice which many of them take seriously — and are far more frightened of than courts, community service or even prison: restorative justice, in which offenders are confronted by their victim, or victims of similar crimes, and learn of the impact of their actions.

«Ali will bring an agenda of inclusion to the New York City Council and work hard for economic justice because there are enough resources in our communities for everyone to prosper.»

«There is no apparent mechanism for ongoing community engagement in the process,» Gabrielle Prisco, director of the Correctional Association of New York's Juvenile Justice Project, told City Limits.

In California, however, there's growing support for environmental justice, or ensuring that rules treat lower - income communities equitably.

Check out Amy Stewart's expose Flower Confidential, volunteer on an urban farm, join a community garden, take a Soil Science or Food Justice class at Farm School NYC — there are so many ways to learn more about these topics.

In IDP camps, there are cases where the perpetrator is allowed to remain in the community through a community settlement out of fear that the perpetrator would be given a lengthy service in the formal justice system, putting survivors at risk of reprisals and further sexual violence.

There's also a deliberate emphasis on social justice, with students leading their communities in discussions of difficult issues such as police use of force.

Across the country there is a growing movement being led by students who are working with adults from their communities and schools to contribute to school improvement by calling for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice in schools.

There is a growing recognition in the education justice movement that community organizing and parent leadership are essential to achieving significant change, including opening and sustaining high - quality schools and systemic changes within districts and states.

He later adds: «If there were any justice index funds would pay a tax to the active management community for their service.»

Have there been any cases in your community where a prosecutor got real justice for animal victims of crime?

I couldn't help but think that there is something very fitting and resonant in the fact that Barack Obama cut his political teeth as a community organizer in the blessed unrest of the movement for social justice.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

And there was even a social justice lens: Just as an earthquake has an uncanny ability to hit the weak link in a structure, natural hazards seem to always hit the poorest and most - disenfranchised communities, cities and countries.

Caring for the Earth is caring for the communities that live there, and Pacific Standard's environmental stories this year speak to the deeply personal nature of climate change and environmental justice, from the crabbers who first sounded the alarm on our changing oceans, to the mother who observed both Colorado's climate and her own mind become increasingly erratic, to the one, «articulate, informed, polite» man with the weight of the world on his shoulders.

Although there are many countries other than the United States that have frequently failed to respond to what justice would require of them to reduce the threat of climate change, the United States, perhaps more than any other country, has gained a reputation in the international community for its consistent unwillingness to commit to serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions during the over two decades that world has been seeking a global agreement on how to respond to climate change.

The murals are now there to remind passers - by of the importance of fighting for climate justice, continue to denounce and resist dirty energy projects and to pay hommage to the environment protectors who are risking their lives on a daily basis to defend their land, their resources and their communities.

«There is a great deal of respect for Justice Wagner in terms of what he's done as a lawyer, his involvement in the community and his career as a judge.

There are many roads to enhancing access to justice across Canada and I have been fortunate to travel several of these via involvement with Manitoba organizations like Legal Aid Manitoba, Community Legal Education Association, Fort Garry Women's Resource Centre and Legal Help Centre of Winnipeg.

Now there are no other alternative way but to draw the kind attention of Concerned Authority Including International Community / Organizations seeking help for JUSTICE and Support to save & protect the OWNER OF SICK OR DISTRESSED INDUSTRIES OF Bangladesh under Private Sector, including their properties from such deep rooted conspiracy and oppressive laws as well to protect the interest of large number of workers, staffs of the Private Sector and also for CHANGE of such oppressive laws to restore Accountability of Bank Official / Loan Giving Agencies including Policy Maker to ensure greater Interest of The Nations

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There is no doubt that residents of rural communities in Canada face greater access to justice limitations than their urban dwelling counterparts.

In ordering an individual released, the Courts must be satisfied that you will attend your future court appearances, that there is not a substantial risk that you will re-offend or interfere with the administration of justice in the community, and lastly that releasing you will not weaken the communities confidence in the administration of justice in light of the severity of the offence and the strength of the Prosecutor's case.

The Chief Justice of Canada, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, addressed the latter in her recent lecture to the Canadian Bar Association, but I do not perceive that she or anyone else in the legal community have addressed the fundamental issue that the SRL phenomenon raises: the right to participate in the making of common law; the ability to put a set of interests before the courts that hitherto have not been able to afford to be there — and thus, a rather significant challenge to the validity of the whole body of common law as it stands.

But as one respondent pointed out, whether governments increase or decrease budgets for legal aid, there will always be areas of the law never covered leaving a hole in access to justice but also offering opportunities for practitioners to get involved in their communities in new and different ways.

Meehan agrees, saying there's a lot of discussion in the legal community focused on Wagner as a good candidate for the next chief justice.

There is considerable discussion these days about how the legal community can help to increase access to justice for Canadian citizens.

«It's a good opportunity to contribute to the community and fill a need, and there is a growing issue in our profession about access to justice and so it is a way to help with that problem as well,» he says.

21.14 (1) There shall be one or more community resources committees, as determined by the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice, or by a person he or she designates for the purpose, for each area in which the Family Court has jurisdiction.

21.13 (1) There shall be one or more community liaison committees, as determined by the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice, or by a person he or she designates for the purpose, for each area in which the Family Court has jurisdiction.

I went up there as much for the community as for the new justice of the peace.

«The aim was to have aboriginal people working in the courts where there was a concentration of aboriginal people, so they could feel part of the system... and to better serve the justice system in the isolated communities where people had no one to turn to for private complaints....

There seems to be a large consensus in agreement that tech and innovation will waltz in and cure the wicked ills of structural and systemic failures that deny marginalized communities from our civil justice system.

On top of the fragmentation within legal tech and the A2J community, there is little intersectionality in this space connecting to broader social justice and grass roots movements that are inherently related.

... WHEREAS there are circumstances when the interests of justice are served by having an offender and the victim of the unlawful conduct or other community representatives find a resolution that promotes public safety by providing healing, reparation and re-integration into the community outside the traditional criminal prosecution process;

There are currently 38 active Justices of the Peace in the Northwest Territories, of whom 29 live and work in communities outside of Yellowknife.

Mr Justice Lewison rejected the possibilities that the estate was either held on trust for the diocese absolutely or by the diocese on trust for the Caribbean Community Centre — where Sister Joseph worked — or that there was an intestacy.