Sentences with phrase «obligations to ensure»

External stakeholders have obligations to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples actively participate in decisions and processes that affect their rights.

The presence of community disputes does not absolve external parties of their obligations to ensure we actively participate in decision - making that affects us.

External parties (governments, NGOs or industry), have obligations to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples actively participate in decisions and processes that affect their rights.

Chapter 4 puts the case that the process for developing the NIC Principles is not consistent with Australia's obligations to ensure the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of its citizens.

Australia, as a signatory to all of the key human rights treaties, has obligations to ensure these rights can be realised within a development context.

Rosen explains that a background screening firm operates under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and has legal obligations to ensure information is accurate and applies to the applicant so there are safeguards in place.

However the Customer also needs to review the confidentiality obligations to ensure that standard exceptions do not vitiate whatever protection is provided and to identify any additional obligations relating to the types of personal information to be made available that should be flowed down to the service provider.

Moreover, the state had a positive obligations to ensure the effective protection of children.

The commenter noted that clergy have ethical obligations to ensure confidentiality and that the Red Cross often notifies the next of kin regarding an individual's condition in certain circumstances.

Often these injuries significantly change your life and include major financial obligations to ensure proper treatment and lifestyle alterations.

The opinion also says that, when retaining a nonlawyer from outside the firm, the lawyer has further obligations to ensure that the nonlawyer's services are provided in a manner that is compatible with the lawyer's professional obligations.

These studies are necessary to allow the California Public Utilities Commission to properly undertake its obligations to ensure plant and grid reliability in the event that either Diablo Canyon or San Onofre has a prolonged or permanent outage and for the California Public Utilities Commission to reach a decision on whether the utilities should pursue license renewal.

However, in my opinion, NSF (paleoclimate) has become a cheerleader for the small paleoclimate industry and abdicated its obligations to ensure compliance with US federal data archiving policies.

The new regulations require the borrower to verify their income and other debt obligations to ensure they will be able to keep their debt to income ratio below a certain level.

Chief executive Andrew Copson said the new subject content amounted to a breach of the government's obligations to ensure a broad and balanced religious studies syllabus.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats believe that many local authorities are currently not meeting their statutory obligations to ensure that they meet the demand for Welsh medium education.

The Code sets out clear obligations to ensure key elements of Grocery Supply Agreements are discussed and agreed up front.

Options are believed to include a legislated supermarket ombudsman with hard powers to enforce a code of conduct (following the UK Groceries Code model) and various behavioural obligations to ensure fair dealing by industry participants.

This appalling rate of food insecurity shows that our Federal and state governments are in breach of their obligations to ensure that all Australians, and especially the most disadvantaged, enjoy the fundamental human right to adequate and culturally appropriate food, guaranteed by Article 10 of the United Nations Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Boards increasingly believe that to fulfill their obligation to ensure the long - term well - being of their companies, they have to support management in developing a compelling innovation strategy.

A REALTOR has a professional obligation to ensure that their buyer clients are prequalified, and should face consequences if they represent a buyer in a transaction who personally doesn't qualify for the mortgage that would be required.

I think spiritual leaders feel the obligation to ensure people are on the right «spiritual path» before moving to the next realm (whatever that might be based on personal beliefs or if there really is something beyond death).

The archbishop criticised the state for not fulfilling its constitutional obligation to ensure «equal status and equal right in the practice of the Hindu, Buddhist, Christian and other religions».

They have an obligation to ensure the product they sell is safe, and obviously in some cases that hasn't been the case.

Breastfeeding is a lifeline for infants and young children in emergencies, has zero environmental impact, and States have a human rights obligation to ensure that mothers are enabled to make an informed decision on infant feeding, free of conflicts of interests.

«We have an obligation to ensure that we take action to protect the 3.6 million New Yorkers enrolled in comprehensive coverage through our state's exchange.»

For the sake of our democracy, we have an obligation to ensure that all eligible voters can freely and fairly participate in elections.

«We have an obligation to ensure that these infrastructure projects are delivered on time, on budget and that the use of public taxpayer dollars is maximized,» he said.

Presumably if there is an obligation to ensure that non-combatant causalities are minimised then it applies to all non-combatants.

Socialist leader Hollande said he was always mindful of the right to protest, but the state had an obligation to ensure normal life could continue for most people.

«We have an obligation to ensure that the people's work is done promptly and completely,» Paterson said.

After all, if Government continues to maintain a complicated tax system, surely they have an obligation to ensure that they explain it properly to those least able to deal with it.

«We have an obligation to ensure that the people's work is done promptly and completely,» Governor Paterson said.

In a statement posted on her Web site, Senator Clinton said: «Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.»

Some ecclesiastical lawyers argue that by allowing civil unions to take place the government will leave religious groups at the mercy of local authorities, who have a legal obligation to ensure equality in the provision of goods and services.

The governor's executive order, which goes into effect Tuesday, includes a mandate that shelters are kept in good condition: «I direct all local social services districts to comply with their obligation to ensure that all facilities used for temporary housing assistance placements are safe, clean, well maintained and supervised and fully compliant with existing state and local laws, regulations, administrative directives, and guidelines,» the order reads.

I'd like to think that scientists have an ethical obligation to ensure that our work does no harm.

This information will contribute to the efforts of the Service to the Human Rights Community Working Group, which plans to develop indicators for measuring government compliance with its obligation to ensure the right to the benefits of scientific progress is realized.

«We have an obligation to ensure our people's safety, and that's why we conducted radiation monitoring at the Springstead location in October 2003 and why we support follow - up studies that are being conducted now by consultants to NHA,» Livingston said.

As the sole U.S. patent holder of the ingredient, NAI has an obligation to ensure that CarnoSyn ® is being taken correctly, and that consumers are reaping the muscle - building benefits.

Do marketers have a moral obligation to ensure products associated with young children's toys are presented in a manner suitable for that age group?

School districts have an absolute obligation to ensure quality teaching.

As employers, independent schools will now have even more of an obligation to ensure we create employment packages that allow us to offer our students the very best educators.

As the Committee states, «a minimum core obligation to ensure the satisfaction of, at the very least, minimum essential levels of each of the rights is incumbent upon every State party» (26).

«This appeal is not about the merits of charter schools or district schools, but rather about the state's overarching obligation to ensure a thorough and efficient education for all public school students in Newark,» Sciarra said in an earlier statement on the appeal.

While it might turn out to be necessary to possess some factual bricks before you can use your cognitive mortar to construct a wall, so long as you can «always look them up» the schools are absolved from any obligation to ensure that facts are stored in your brain.

In order to realize their shared goals, a partnership was born: Aperture Education, a company rooted in the belief that our children hold the promise for a better tomorrow with an obligation to ensure that they have the skills and mindsets necessary to be good stewards of our future.

The law provides a mechanism for local school board members to be directly involved in the development of State plans and the Department has an obligation to ensure that the minimum legal requirements of the law are met.

NSDC's vision for professional learning stems from its moral obligation to ensure great teaching for every child every day.

It notes: «A school's Title IX obligation to ensure nondiscrimination on the basis of sex requires schools to provide transgender students equal access to educational programs and activities even in circumstances in which other students, parents, or community members raise objections or concerns.»