Sentences with phrase «justice issue with»

Despite this resistance, paid sick leave is starting to gain momentum as a social justice issue with important implications for health and wellness.

Started in 2007 by Nina Brav, REVO is an organization that connects people who are passionate about social justice issues with charities that aid their favorite cause — like charity matchmaking.

Our candidate for comptroller, Theresa Portelli, has been a union member working with juvenile justice issues with CSEA for 40 years.

At 6:30 p.m., the Citizens Crime Commission of NYC will hold its annual fundraiser at 320 Park Ave (50th Street), featuring a conversation on criminal justice issues with three 2013 NYC mayoral contenders: Christine Quinn, Bill de Blasio and John Liu.

How do you approach social justice issues with elementary students?

Inquiry to Action Groups (ItAGs) are an opportunity to build community by learning together, developing as activists, and linking social justice issues with classroom practice.

Participants experienced many new adventures — bravely knocking on doors to bring the benefits of solar to low - income homeowners, immersing themselves in cross-cultural experiences with tribal communities, discussing social justice issues with our local partners, marveling at vast solar farms and, of course, installing lots of solar.

«Our aim was to resolve the access to justice issues with the LSC.

Judge Mendelson and the Office for Justice Initiatives work closely on access to justice issues with the Permanent Commission on Access to Justice, as well as with the Advisory Committee on Access for People with Disabilities, the Center for Court Innovation (CCI), the Division of Technology, the Forms Committees, the Grants Office, the Office of Language Access, and law schools.

Not exact matches

During the Obama administration, the Justice Department issued guidelines to help banks avoid federal prosecution when dealing with pot businesses in states where the drug is legal.

As the nine justices grappled with the technological complexities of email data storage, liberals Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the court needed to act in the data privacy case in light of Congress now considering bipartisan legislation that would resolve the legal issue.

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters)- Supreme Court justices on Tuesday wrestled with Microsoft Corp's dispute with the U.S. Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas, with some signaling support for the government and others urging Congress to pass a law to resolve the issue.

The company still faces the wrath of the U.S. Justice Department, which is nearing a decision on whether to criminally charge GM over its failure to disclose the problem and recall affected cars after it staff first discovered issues with the switch in 2001.

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 - Supreme Court justices on Tuesday wrestled with Microsoft Corp's dispute with the U.S. Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas, with some signaling support for the government and others urging Congress to pass a law to resolve the issue.

Justice Department lawyers argued in court earlier this month that the federal guidelines issued in May were non-binding with no legal consequences.

The eight - justice court is hearing arguments Monday in two cases that deal with the same basic issue of whether race played too large a role in the drawing of electoral districts, to the detriment of African - Americans.

Former DirecTV CEO Michael White discusses the Justice Department's antitrust issues with the AT&T - Time Warner merger.

Its 2017 budget is $ 940.7 million, with grants to seven regions around the globe focused on issues like economic governance and advancement, justice reform and human rights, according to the organization.

«The determination of the PSD - led government to charge ahead with the contentious criminal justice reform in disregard of widespread public discontent and political opposition sets a scene for tumultuous period ahead, highlighting a risk of further deteriorating operating environment,» Andrius Tursa, advisor on central and eastern European issues at Teneo Intelligence said in a note last week.

The judge said in a 91 - page decision that, while the Army Corps substantially complied with the National Environmental Policy Act, federal permits issued for the pipeline violated the law in some respects, saying in a court order the Corps did not «adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice.»

The Justice Department has «systemic» problems in how it handles sexual harassment complaints, with those found to have acted improperly often not receiving appropriate punishment, and the issue requires «high level action,» according to the department's inspector general.

Successive administrations followed with major initiatives in trying to broaden land ownership, sometimes getting embroiled in political battles and important issues of justice.8

She will inherit a series of legal issues the ride - hail behemoth is continuing to grapple with: For instance, Uber is facing fresh lawsuits over its data breach earlier this year and dealt with a number of probes from the U.S. Department of Justice last year.

But given that several individual racial justice groups, as well as larger collectives like the Movement for Black Lives and the police - reform oriented Campaign Zero initiative, have all come out with various policy agendas targeting specific issues, this doesn't really hold up.

Earlier this year, the company reached a settlement with the Oregon Department of Justice that cost it $ 1.1 million, and it looked like that issue was behind it.

As a pastor, a blogger, a speaker and having a small but growing reputation as someone that loves justice and advocates on issues of justice, I realised on a personal basis that I had grown more in love with the idea of justice than actually living justly.

And the great thing is that with our religious freedom, they don't have to wait to find the right church to take on social justice issues.

Dissenting from the Championruling, Chief Justice Melville Fuller issued a prescient warning that, having adopted the notion that the nation's «fundamental law is flexible,» the court would be met with constant demands to «ease the shoe where it pinches» until nothing resembling the vision of the Constitution remained.

Yesterday my friend Rick Garnett, who teaches law at Notre Dame and blogs at Mirror of Justice, took issue with my article (and White's).

«In 2014 the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice issued Mr Page with a reprimand after finding that during a Family Court hearing he had allowed himself to be influenced by his religious beliefs and not by the evidence.»

The main problems with the religious right, Harris says, include disregard for poverty and international justice (particularly for women), obsession over the issues of abortion and gay marriage, and a mindset that generally embraces greed - centered capitalism.

Perhaps with enough people hammering the issues of abortion and gay marriage, Harris is right to direct her attention and effort to other issues of mercy and justice, but the flavor of the book seems to downplay the importance of traditional marriage, infant life, and the church's role in mercy ministry.

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

Yeah, it makes me feel better denouncing baptist cause of my family's involvement with the KKK to become a catholic and the hate by socialism and such from conservative uncompassionant individuals on the moral question of social justice issues.

The issue of the relation of the human life and the nature is not merely the question of how to deal with the natural environment but that of the total creation, which involves the justice, participation and peace in an integral unity.

Moderate Protestants (along with Catholics) tend to «lean in a conservative direction on personal life - style issues and in a more liberal direction on matters of social justice.»

The issue of the relation of human life and nature is not merely the question of how to deal with the natural environment but that of the total creation, which involves the justice, participation and peace in an integral unity.

They will require a concerted effort by theologians who take both ecology and justice seriously, and who are prompted by a sense of urgency that will allow them to struggle creatively and resolutely with the deeper issues — if not in perfect harmony, at least with a sense of solidarity.

Both are weighty issues that deal explicitly with «high cosmic justice,» so if he argues that a government overreaches its authority to execute justice by attempting to «balance the books of the universe» in repaying blood with blood, then does that mean there can never be any just criteria for one nation to retaliate against another after an unprovoked attack» an attack that in essence would repay blood with blood?

Her blog, The Underground Railroad, is a small rag dealing with human trafficking and other justice issues.

CNN routinely partners with and praises the work of organizations like International Justice Mission, Not For Sale, and World Relief, and has issued several flattering portraits of «the new Christian abolition movement.»

Process theology has failed to deal extensively with the issue of justice, at least under that rubric.

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

The issues of justice between men and women are so complex that a full discussion of them would require a shelf of books, and indeed a shelf has been appearing with Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex; Helen Deutsch's Modern Woman, the Lost Sex; and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, to mention some outstanding ones.

Dolan's statement framed the issue in terms of social justice and respect: «Every person deserves to be treated with justice, compassion, and respect, a proposition of natural law and American law that we as Catholics vigorously promote.»

At the heart of the issue was the fact that exclusivism just didn't feel right to me, it didn't fit with my very core sense of right and wrong, of justice and injustice, of good and evil.

These data provoke concern in terms of economic justice, but another real issue is that media owners and players are «gatekeepers,» with the power to define who has access to information.

His private meeting with victims, and commitment to justice on their behalf, impressed the British public, disproving any notion he was out to dodge or minimize the gravity of the issue.

Between 1980 and 1995, 32 percent of the articles in the CHRISTIAN CENTURY dealt with social - justice issues, only 5 percent with family - and sex - related topics.

Laudato Si, last week's encyclical from Pope Francis, seeks to address a plethora of problems in the modern world — predominately focusing on environmental issues, distributive justice, and perceived problems with consensus developmental economic theory.