Sentences with phrase «new human dignity»

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Canada's digital privacy laws should focus on preventing «concrete harm,» not abstract concepts of autonomy and human dignity, and should minimize the compliance burden on businesses, according to a new report from the Macdonald - Laurier Institute for Public Policy.

In each case, a mix of social pressure and technological refinements helped tame a cruel new order, and reaffirmed human dignity over machines.

It would be better, we think, to use the new means at hand to reduce human suffering as much as we can while protecting human freedom and dignity.

[4] This wayward view has become the rallying assertion of the New Age movement with its implicit refusal of the body's dignity, and its unguided emphasis on the human spirit.

Christianity and Judaism must both fully embrace the new possibilities within modernity for human liberation and dignity, but they must also chasten modernity so that it remains a means, not an end.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

A new dignity has been conferred upon the whole human race for God himself has become a man.

Therefore a new debate must begin on human rights - oriented economic policies where every person and his dignity matters.

We must understand that when a man considers violence the only resort left him, when he sees it, not as a remedy and the harbinger of a new day, but as at least an indictment of the old, unjust order, when he thinks of violence as a way of affirming his outraged human dignity (his pride!)

We need a fully orbed pro-life vision that fights for human dignity wherever it is compromised, whether in the womb, on the streets of Baltimore, Cleveland and New York, at the nursing home, in the halls of power, or at the border.

According to Ellis, for the sake both of the human dignity of the Palestinians and the moral integrity of the Jews, something new must replace that national theology.

Today there are «new dimensions of knowledge... (mainly) the natural sciences... and the historical and human sciences,... (and) the recognition of the rights and the dignity of man» has increased.

For those who are interested, a draft version of my new article, «Of Human Dignities,» is now available on the Social Science Research Network site.

Christopher White is the International Director of Operations for the World Youth Alliance, an NGO headquartered in New York City that works to promote human dignity in policy and culture.

RESOURCES «New Zealand Grants a River the Rights of Personhood,» Care2.Com [Swiss] Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology, The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants [PDF] Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Web Site CELDF «Rights of Nature» FAQs Carl Cohen and Tom Regan, chapter by Carl Cohen, «Rights and Interests,» The Animal Rights Debate, (Latham, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001), p. 17 David S. Oderberg, «The Illusion of Animal Rights,» Human Life Review, Spring - Summer 2000, p. 42.

As followers of Jesus, we are called to build a community that embodies the new relationships of God's Kingdom based on freedom, justice, dignity of every human person, love and fellowship.

Religions can rightly claim that these new democratic values which Secular Humanism has brought to light are derived from the religious conceptions of the dignity of human beings in society but which they neglected in the past; and that therefore in assimilating them into their religious reformation they are only claiming their own and preventing their getting perverted in the secularist framework of Materialism and Individualism.

This new criterion, then, must appeal to some other feature of the experience, such as its relationship to human pride, liberty, or dignity, and in fact, Mill does appeal to these attributes in explaining the preference for higher over lower pleasures (U 13).

Religious doctrine may declare that human life bears supernatural dignity, and that the openness to generating new life is a good that should not be opposed by artificial means, but neither of these can be refuted by a scientific study.

Instead it calls on «local,» that is, national, Orthodox Churches to promote a «new constructive synergy» with the secular state, in order to ensure «earnest cooperation in order to preserve man's unique dignity and the human rights which flow therefrom.»

In the new experiment the rhetoric of human dignity is giving way to the language of «creation spirituality.»

The brutal and vindictive practice of corporal punishment can not be reconciled with the major New Testament themes that teach love and forgiveness and a respect for the sacredness and dignity of children, and which overwhelmingly reject violence and retribution as a means of solving human problems.

«Respecting someone's gender identity or gender expression is key in making sure that everyone in New York City is living with dignity and respect,» said Carmelyn Malalis, the commissioner of human rights.

Moreover, in partnership with New York City Councilmember Brad Lander, she convenes #GetOrganizedBK, through which thousands of New Yorkers work together to defend democracy and human dignity in this time when they believe that both are under siege.

Flanked by members, the president of the AFL - CIO and several immigrants who refer themselves as «dreamers,» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said the measure — called the DREAM Act — was one of human dignity, and in keeping with New York's traditions of welcoming immigrants.

«We want to find out who the victims were, uncover their biographies and their fates, and as such give them part of their human dignity back and find an appropriate way of remembrance,» says Heinz Wässle, an emeritus director of the neuroanatomy department at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, and head of an MPG committee overseeing the new investigation.

It is also welcome recognition for a man who took seriously the ethical issues raised by new developments in medical research and addressed these issues in a manner that respected the dignity inherent in all human life.

New York, NY About Blog World Youth Alliance Europe is a global coalition of young people committed to promoting human dignity and solidarity at the European institutions.

«An approach to discipline that is respectful of human rights and maintains student dignity leads to a school that is inherently safe,» says former teacher Sally Lee, coauthor of «Teachers Talk» and executive director of the New York City organization Teachers Unite.

He presided over the most tumultuous period in United States history, blazed a path for freedom and human dignity, and shaped a new vision for a still - young union.

I took office on a platform of new humanism, fostered through respect for diversity, human rights and dignity.

Humankind as a whole is in the process of moving from traditional arrangements of ranked honour to a new vision of human dignity nourished by right relationships.

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From literal Valley girl to wife of Prince Harry, American Meghan Markle planned a wedding that blended old and new traditions and emphasized values of diversity, inclusion and human dignity.

Inspired by the life and thought of St. Josemaría Escrivá, Scepter Publishers seeks to help men and women put Christ at the center of their lives and at the summit of all human activities, and to help them evangelize the world from within, bringing about a new civilization in keeping with the dignity of the human person as a child of God in Jesus Christ.

You gave a new meaning to respect for Human dignity.

Social inequalities can be reduced through the defense of human rights, the rule of law, participatory democracy, universal access to public services, the recognition of personal dignity, a significant improvement in the effectiveness of fiscal and social policies, an ethical finance reform, large scale decent work creation policies, integration of the informal and popular economic sectors, and national and international collaboration to eradicate the new forms of slavery such as forced labor and sexual exploitation.

But don't worry — a new breed of environmentalists has just released a manifesto declaring that, with a little faith in technology, humanity can move into a «great» new century of prosperity and universal human dignity on a thriving planet.

A new term that has emerged from the Ontario Human Rights Commission's new Policy on Preventing Discrimination Based on Creed is that of faithism, which it defines as: «any ideology that ascribes to people values, beliefs and behaviours, and constructs people as fundamentally different and unequal — deserving or undeserving of respect and dignity — based on their religion or belief.»

New York, NY About Blog World Youth Alliance Europe is a global coalition of young people committed to promoting human dignity and solidarity at the European institutions.

The state's premier professional organizations for LMHCs is the American Counseling Association of New York, whose mission is «to enhance the quality of life in society by promoting the development of professional counselors, advancing the counseling profession, and using the profession and practice of counseling to promote respect for human dignity and diversity.»

New York, NY About Blog World Youth Alliance Europe is a global coalition of young people committed to promoting human dignity and solidarity at the European institutions.

Human rights principles are, of course, designed to ensure that Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples, refugees, asylum - seekers and new migrants, people with disability or mental illness, women, the elderly, young people, people of faith, gay men and lesbians, people experiencing homelessness, detainees and prisoners, people living in remote and rural areas and, indeed, all who suffer disadvantage have their inherent dignity respected and do not experience discrimination.