Sentences with phrase «legal commitment to equality»

While the First World War was, in one sense, a catastrophe for the Jews, it also witnessed the end of the Czarist Empire with its comprehensive restrictions on Jews, and the establishment nearly everywhere of regimes with a legal commitment to equality for Jews.

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RBG's decades of legal work is testament to her lifetime commitment to human dignity and equality.

As part of its commitment to promote equality and diversity in the legal profession, and to ensure that the Ontario community is served by a representative profession, the Law Society of Upper Canada conducts research and collects data on the composition of the profession.

In my opinion, her biggest achievement has been her ability, despite climbing the legal echelons to success, to maintain her initial focus, which was the promotion of human rights, social justice, the right to equality and her commitment to serve her community.

Each year, the LGBT Bar recognizes LGBT legal professionals under the age of 40 who have distinguished themselves in their field and have demonstrated a profound commitment to LGBT equality.

Our commitment to gender equality is also reflected in the number of women we have working for the company as Partners and as members of our A major contributing factor to the pay gap in legal services is that women remain significantly underrepresented in senior positions unique support network, gcTrust.

When asked what it will take to increase gender equality in the legal profession, Pennycook said: «More women directly involved in law firm management; increased flexibility in how individual lawyers contribute to the firm's practice; commitment to women staying connected while on maternity leave; and facilitating reintegration upon return.»

Indeed, a bias awareness approach would seem to be consistent with our legal community's commitments to substantive, over formal, equality.