Sentences with phrase «justice for vulnerable»

Abolishing the provision is a good first step toward conceptualizing access to justice for vulnerable immigrants, but it is not enough.

A global, all - virtual multidisciplinary collaboratory solving tomorrow's social justice problems in legal education and practice related to issues around youth advocacy, juvenile justice, human rights, and / or access to education and justice for vulnerable client populations.

In a recognition of the importance of access to justice for vulnerable women and children, the government promised that legal aid cases would not be scrapped to those affected by domestic violence.

Upon joining the National Committee, she will focus on divorce reform and access to justice for vulnerable people.

And we share the Minister of Justice's expectation that reinstatement of the CCP «will increase access to justice for vulnerable groups and official - language communities.»

The move to repeal Hyde «means the party that is supposedly on the side of justice for the vulnerable no longer welcomes those of us who #ChooseBoth; that is, those of us who want the government to protect and support prenatal children and their mothers,» they said.

We must turn to God and ask God to be God, to bring justice for the vulnerable, and we must also act.

Not exact matches

It is time for them to resolve their partisan differences and pass the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, which is crucial to the well - being and protection of our most vulnerable youth.

Justice For Children International is by no means alone, we are a founding members of Stop the Traffik, a major global coalition with over 300 member organisations based out of the U.K. Stop the Traffik works together to help stop the sale of people, to see the traffickers prosecuted, and to protect the victims of human trafficking and those vulnerable to this crime.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

1) The opportunists — Those with no concern for justice or truth, who attempted to manipulate Ferguson's vulnerable citizens with inflammatory rhetoric.

Mishpat, or «putting things right» for widows, orphans, immigrants, and the poor (the «quarter of the vulnerable»), is the fruit of tzedakah — primary justice, or «living righteously.»

The state senator touched on many themes I loved - themes of justice, of fighting for the vulnerable and sick, of deep love for my country.

These traditions could be comfortably suppressed as crude anthropomorphisms as long as confidence in the model of divine efficient causation remained strong, but that model has become vulnerable in recent centuries because it can not do justice to the problem of evil or account adequately for creative freedom.

What if this crisis gives you the chance to apprentice your kids into being people who are strong and vulnerable, who can soothe themselves to be able to do what they need to do, and who work and fight for justice for others?

It is an exciting step forward in advancing housing justice for some of the most vulnerable members of our community,» said Assemblymember Michael Blake.

The Liberal Democrats must not forget their historic commitment to social justice and must always stand up for the most vulnerable in society.

«Ali stands up for what she believes in and her work on behalf of vulnerable women and children shows a commitment to justice that will serve our community well.»

«In his speech today, Governor Cuomo outlined a clear progressive vision for protecting our most vulnerable citizens, continued economic development and job creation, a fairer criminal justice system, a more equitable educational system, greater infrastructure investment and a plan for addressing sexual harassment in New York State.

«We applaud Justice Panepinto for having the courage to stand up for the most vulnerable people in our society,» attorney Steve Cohen said.

While the work and pensions secretary was delivering a speech to the Centre for Social Justice on how he is improving the life chances of vulnerable people, some of the those affected by his cuts to ESA took to Twitter to express their dismay at the Commons vote.

«The Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs will give New York State the strongest standards and practices in the nation for protecting those who are often the most vulnerable to abuse and mistreatment,» Cuomo said in a statement.

The Brooklyn district attorney's office, promising to seek «equal and fair justice» for the borough's vulnerable foreign - born residents, has created a policy that tailors prosecutions to avoid, when possible, the deportation or detention of immigrants charged with certain misdemeanors or nonviolent crimes.

«Speaker Mark - Viverito has worked tirelessly securing justice in the courts and prisons, uplifting the voice of young women and immigrant New Yorkers, and delivering crucial victories for vulnerable communities in the last four city budgets,» they said.

Youth advocacy and civic engagement is especially powerful for vulnerable populations, such as youth who are homeless, in foster care, or justice - involved, who can draw upon their own experiences to impact change.

The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Military Child Initiative assists public schools to improve the quality of education for highly mobile and vulnerable young people with a special focus on military children and their families by providing national, state and local education agencies, as well as schools, parents and health, child welfare, juvenile justice and educational professionals with information, tools and services that enhance school success.

The national organization's stated mission is to fight «hate and bigotry» and to seek «justice for the most vulnerable members of our society,» although it's unclear how crippling or removing altogether an option many needy families are happy with fulfills their mission.

Tredway is senior associate for IEL's Leaders for Today and Tomorrow Project, a catalyst for engaging institutions of higher education, school districts, and nonprofits in uncovering and coordinating efforts in social justice preparation, particularly to support of urban and rural leaders in the most vulnerable schools.

The report also recommends that the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice collect demographic information on bullied students to use in assessing the level of protection that exists for vulnerable groups under civil rights laws.

Berkeley Principals Leadership Institute — The mission of the Principal Leadership Institute at Berkeley is to prepare, induct, and support a diverse community of equity focused school leaders who will improve education for vulnerable and historically underserved students in California's public schools in support of social justice.

As for justice, schools serving our most vulnerable students suffer most from a narrow test - based curriculum.

Human subject research must adhere to three basic principles: (1) respect for individuals; respecting their autonomy; (2) beneficence; doing no harm and maximizing possible benefits while minimizing risks; and (3) justice; taking special care not to exploit vulnerable groups.

Situated on a site in Montgomery, Alabama where enslaved people were once warehoused, the museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice are part of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

Pushed by grassroots environmental and social - justice groups, California has led the way on this approach, with 2012 legislation (Senate Bill 535) requiring that 25 percent of carbon revenue from the state's cap - and - trade program must be spent on clean - energy investments that benefit environmentally vulnerable low - income communities in places like Stockton, Fresno, Richmond, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles (the targeted share for these communities was recently raised to 35 percent).

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

A major significance for policy of understanding climate change as a moral and justice issue, is that nations may not look at economic self - interest alone in formulating policies, they must consider their ethical and moral obligations to those who are most vulnerable to climate change.

In the absence of a court adjudicating what equity requires of nations in setting their national climate change commitments, a possibility but far from a guarantee under existing international and national law (for an explanation of some of the litigation issues, Buiti, 2011), the best hope for encouraging nations to improve the ambition of their national emissions reductions commitments on the basis of equity and justice is the creation of a mechanism under the UNFCCC that requires nations to explain their how they quantitatively took equity into account in establishing their INDCs and why their INDC is consistent with the nation's ethical obligations to people who are most vulnerable to climate change and the above principles of international law.

Sonja Meister, climate justice and energy campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said: «The list is long why the Paris deal falls short of what is needed to effectively combat climate change and protect vulnerable and poor people across the world.

A test that hears the demands of the poor and most vulnerable for climate justice.

Ethical and Justice Issues At the Center of the Warsaw Climate Negotiations - Issue 3, Financing Adaptation and Climate Change Responses in Vulnerable Developing Counties and Issue 4, Ethical Responsibilities for Loss and Damages.

Yet questions of distributive justice about which nations should bear the major responsibility for most GHG reductions at the international level have and continue to block agreement in international climate negotiations, as well as questions about which countries should be financially responsible for adaptation costs and damages in poor countries that are most vulnerable to climate change's harshest climate impacts and who have done little to cause the problem.

A central issue of concern in these negotiations is the need of nations to take equity and justice seriously when they make ghg emissions reductions commitments and when considering their responsibility for adaptation, losses and damages in poor vulnerable countries.

If they are truly committed to social justice, these critics ought to voice support for research on those technologies that appear uniquely suited to assist those who are most vulnerable to climate change.

This of course brings the other central and inextricable reality of climate justice and development into focus and the need for serious glocbal and local recognition and action to include (actually include) those vulnerable to the impacts (and politics) of climate change — the poor.

It was not just a well - planned civil disobedience, but a statement about the need for a unified climate justice focused deal to help vulnerable communities in their struggles.

«The Church has a moral responsibility to speak and act on both environmental stewardship and justice for the world's poor, who are most vulnerable to climate change» says Professor Richard Burridge, of the Church's Ethical Investment Advisory Group.

What it means is that climate is not isolated from other issues such as gender equality or economic and racial justice, because causality runs both ways: those who are oppressed in other ways are precisely those who are vulnerable to the worst effects of climate change, and precisely those who are least responsible for its occurrence.

In a joint statement from the Catholic Bishops» Conference of the Philippines - National Secretariat for Social Action (CBCP - NASSA), and the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ), 2012 Goldman Prize winner Father Edwin Gariguez called on the Pope to support the poor and vulnerable communities most affected by climate crises.

Now all justice services in the area are contained under one roof, which features a secure interview room in cells, videoconferencing services, a room for vulnerable witnesses, a suite of secure rooms for legal counsel, and surveillance cameras and equipment with continuous views of inside and outside the courthouse.