Sentences with phrase «of a human rights based»

Cross-party commitment to an «ECHR plus» model would mean all the parties were committed to a doctrine of human rights based on universal «core» rights, with a periphery of rights predicated on citizenship.

Funding based on need is an integral component of a human rights based approach to development and is an essential feature of good policy development.

That there is acknowledgement by government of the importance of a human rights based approach to development in order to effectively implement the new arrangements and the achievement of effective and sustainable improvements in Indigenous living standards and well - being.

All of these elements of a human rights based approach are required if the Australian Government is to effectively implement its human rights obligations and to ensure sound processes for Indigenous policy development.

The engagement of MLDRIN in forums such as the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and meetings of the International Union of Conservation and Nature will also bring to the debate, an understanding of the human rights based approach to policy development.

The second issue to consider in terms of human rights compliance receives less attention - namely, whether the current processes in place to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality comply with the key elements of the human rights based approach to health.

From this perspective, there are a number of aspects of the current approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health that do meet the requirements of the human rights based approach to health.

The following aspects of the existing framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health are consistent with the requirements of the human rights based approach to health.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner has also commented on a central element of a human rights based approach being Indigenous peoples participation and engagement in government laws, policies and programs (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Social Justice Report 2006, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (2006), p 5 - 6.)

Not exact matches

At least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their beliefs about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith - based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the Human Rights Campaign said.

But shortly afterward, two individuals — Abadi Gebremeskel and Legesse Berh — joined the endless stream of refugees arriving at Tigray, Ethiopia, and were subsequently interviewed by London - based Human Rights Concern Eritrea.

He declined to give further details but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain - based monitor of the war, said the handover had happened on Monday and involved fewer than 10 villages.

But if the workplace is the definite cause, then employees are entitled to protection under the Canadian Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability.

Indeed, 89 % of Fortune 500 companies have policies prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, while 66 % ban discrimination based on gender identity, according to the Human Rights Campaign.

Jolie's film is based on the memoirs of human rights activist Loung Ung, who fled her childhood home in Cambodia during a deadly four - year Communist regime, known as the Khmer Rouge years.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British - based monitor, said at least 14 people were killed including some fighters of various nationalities, a reference to Iranian - backed Shiite militia members, mostly from Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran fighting alongside the Syrian army.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

These individual American attitudes may have changed corporate culture seeing that 89 % of Fortune 500 companies implemented their own policies prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation according to Human Rights Campaign.

The amount of Cook's contribution to the Washington - based Human Rights Campaign wasn't disclosed, but the advocacy organization called it «substantial.»

Ethiopia, which has been accused of human rights violations, previously acquired surveillance systems from Germany - based Gamma International's FinFisher and Italy - based Hacking Team's Remote Control System.

Aberdeen Group provides you with the right kind of leads for the right stage of the sales funnel — from leads based on predictive models to machine and human - verified leads.

For example, we support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which stands at the basis of the UN Global Compact's Human Rights Principles, and our CEO Paul Bulcke signed the UN Global Compact CEO Statement for the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR.

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To be sure, valid questions may be raised about whether Enlightenment justifications based on insecurity in the state of nature can truly ground human rights.

The principles of human rights and non-discrimination are based on a Christian ethic, and should be something we are actively supporting as Christians in the workplace.

In particular, laws and domestic institutions based on the rule of law and human rights are indispensable for justice.

At the same time, it kept silence about numerous acts of religiously motivated violence, which the recent report by the Brussels - based International Partnership for Human Rights called «crimes against humanity.»

Word of the sentences came from an Iranian - based group called the Committee of Human Rights Defenders, according to Diane Ala'i, another Baha'i U.N representative.

Austin Ruse is president of the New York and Washington DC «based C - FAM (Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute), a research institute on international social policy.

The fact that President Trump's executive order allows the government to prioritize individual claims of religious - based persecution from religious minorities — whether Christian, Yazidi, Jew, Muslim, Bahá» í, Buddhist, etc. — should be welcome news to every Christian and everyone concerned with human rights and religious freedom.

They estimated a «human freedom index» for each country based on 1985 figures for forty different indicators among them the right to travel, freedom of religion, freedom from unlawful detention, independent press, homosexual activities between consenting adults.

Education today in the industrial environment and in the political and cultural environments consists of how to ensure that the human resources (since both you and I are now reduced to being human resources rather than human beings) can be trained on a continuing basis, throughout our lives, to be recycled at the right moment, to be a profitable human resource?

Though he verbally defended the old New England idea, it is interesting that he defended it more on the basis of reason and human rights than on the basis of Scripture, and this defense of congregational independence later provided arguments for advocates of the revolution against England.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

Speciesism is universally condemned within the animal rights movement (as distinguished from animal welfare advocacy), which holds, in the words of PETA's Ingrid Newkirk, «There is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights.

For him, war, famine, and human rights abuses are a consequence of the global order based on sovereign states that Rawls affirms because such a system facilitates and fosters competition and conflict among states.

The following three questions, based on the analogy above, illustrates the difference between respect for human rights and the management of terror.

This critique of economic life is based on teaching about human rights.

Also on Wednesday ISIS executed 190 former Iraqi security forces for refusing to join them, in the Al Ghazlani base near Mosul,» said Ravina Shamdasani from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

There can not be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth.»

Ms. Lernoux, author of Cry of the People: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America, is a free - lance writer based in Bogota, Colombia.

In this regard, these traditions have more in common with each other than with secular humanists who seek to justify human rights on the basis of reason alone.

On the contrary, there are standards of right and wrong within Christian tradition concerning human sexuality, based in human nature and biblical revelation, which are acceptable to homosexual and heterosexual alike, and which can form the moral basis of public policy.

Editor's Note: Harry Knox is Director of the Human Rights Campaign's Religion and Faith Program and is a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

He added: «I was able to pay homage to this great country, which from the beginning has been based on a pleasing joining together of religious, ethical, and political principles, and continues to be a valid example of healthy secularism where the religious dimension, in its diverse expressions, is not only tolerated but valued as the «soul» of the nation and the fundamental guarantee of the rights and duties of the human being.»

James Finn is Senior Editor of Freedom Review, published by Freedom House, a human rights advocacy group based in New York City.

Also, while I am a pastor and I believe in God's Word, I do not advocate for legislation based solely on God's Word but also on principles of science, human rights, etc..

Christianity has contributed much to the intellectual and moral basis of human rights, due to all humans being regarded as children of God, and hence endowed with inalienable rights.

b) the natural rights theories that based rights on reason and natural law, linked to the concept of the supreme dignity of the human person as a creature of God, who alone had sovereign right over all,

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.