Sentences with phrase «of democratic societies»

The civil justice system is a fundamental and far - reaching component of democratic societies which touches the lives of Canadians every day.

Equal access to a civil and family justice system that can uphold rights and fairly and effectively resolve disputes is a fundamental and far - reaching component of democratic societies.

It strives to suggest an approach informed by the experiences of democratic societies with different norms and legal cultures; one that harnesses the strengths and capabilities of the public and the private sectors in offering practical solutions to pressing problems.

O'Neill framed her talk around the complicated relationship between the rights to privacy and free press, emphasising that the debate between these two key features of democratic societies fails to adequately show how claims of privacy and calls for press freedom are to be weighed against one another if and when they come into conflict.

In any case, it is clear that, as every papal encyclical and major Protestant pronouncement in this century on labor has affirmed, trade unions are an essential instrument of justice for working people and an indispensable and positive part of democratic societies.

Thomas Farr, a Georgetown Professor of Religion and International Affairs, in an adaptation of and an article in Foreign Affairs, has argued in First Things that the fostering of democratic societies in Islamic lands must be linked with encouraging Islamic communities themselves to understand the value of religious freedom.

Nowadays, however, governments of our democratic societies are almost invariably large financial debtors, often the economy's most highly indebted sector.

We all pay taxes, whether we like it or not, because we agree as citizens, as members of a democratic society, that mandatory taxation is for the common good.

We also agree today on many basic features of a democratic society: the right to vote, the right to due process of law, the right to free speech.

Colleges have grown large trying to fulfill their responsibilities to the youth of a democratic society.

On the basis on her frankly Jeffersonian reading of the early church, she concludes, «Our secularized western idea of democratic society owes much to that early Christian vision of a new society — a society no longer formed by the natural bonds of family, tribe, or nation, but by the voluntary choice of its members.»

Because conscience is present in every individual and corresponds so nicely to the contents of civil religion (i.e., Deism), the role of organized religion (read, the Catholic Church) is thought to be not only unnecessary for but also the enemy of Democratic society.

Could it not just as well be a picture of a democratic society?»

This applies not only to the protection of the rules of democracy, because, on the one hand, even the laws of a democratic society may be regarded by some as an unjustified limitation of their freedom, and, on the other, there may also be laws which wrongly restrict freedom even though they were promulgated according to the rules of democracy.

This was illustrated a few years ago when President Harry S. Truman appointed a Commission on Higher Education which later issued its report under the title Higher Education for American Democracy and began its discussion with definitions of the dogmas and the goals of democratic society.

Articulating the answer is crucial, because today there are growing threats of coercion on both sides, and the secularism that refuses to recognize the proper civic roles of religious members of society gives rise to religious reactionaries that reject the moral legitimacy of democratic society.

Emancipation from the endless discussions of committee meetings, trying to solve problems in both religious and political communities that had hitherto occupied so much of my time, was a desirable freedom from the chores of a democratic society; but it also meant an emancipation from responsibility — a doubtful boon, because responsibility engages us in the causes of moral, political and religious movements.

Reinhardt warns, «They are not free, however, to force their views, their religious convictions, or their philosophies on all the other members of a democratic society, and to compel those whose values differ with theirs to die painful, protracted, and agonizing deaths.»

Character Education: The Policy on Quality Character Education (2004) recommends that schools adopt secular character education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democratic society.

A Lagos - based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, whose law firm was handling the matter, had said the actions of the security agency were against all known laws of a democratic society.

«Apart from the family, the school is the fundamental institution where our children learn to be human and acquire the unique values of our democratic society,» said Urie Bronfenbrenner,...

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

Based on the deliberation above, I claim that the aim of full development of one's personality can not be achieved through the education (and memory) policies lacking the provision of impartial information (which is one of the cornerstones of democratic society) about one's history and therefore the right to education also contains right to truth.

«To prepare all citizens to become responsible members of a democratic society» «To develop socialization and citizenship skills in children» «Preparing students for responsible, productive citizenship and imbuing them with values common to one democratic society»...

It may not be politically feasible at the national level, but local authorities, teacher leaders, and policy makers may be in a position to think of creating policies that offer quality education while still ensuring that students have the liberty to reach their own unique potential, the core strength of a democratic society.

They are «dedicated to public education as the cornerstone of a democratic society [and to] education policy and actions that allow students, teachers, families, and communities to work together to meet the needs of all children.»

Schools have the responsibility of being incubators of democratic society, and manipulating student involvement actively undermines that responsibility while taking away the rights of learners.

Student Rights For students to function as productive members of a democratic society, they must understand and appreciate their own rights and the rights of others.

We also call upon those who care about the children in Milwaukee to stand up and protect Auer Avenue School and all public schools that are the foundation of a democratic society.»

Alternative programs of choice are in accord with the values of a democratic society.

Key Issues To ensure charter schools and neighborhood public schools function in the best interests of students, parents and community members, we believe that, like all public institutions, they must be guided by six basic principles of a democratic society: transparency, accountability, quality, oversight, equity and public control.

In this view, education should immerse students in the continuum of ideas of a democratic society.

He will have to confess the bonds he shared with her parents, the passion with which they all embraced the Khmer Rouge's illusory promise of a democratic society, and the truth about her father's end.

More often than not, the light signifies no more than a turning or a twist or a light vent in a tunnel, which for the vast majority of societies in the West will seemingly never end in the sunlight of a vital, dynamic, and responsible system of free speech in the legal domain, a system that responds to the needs of a democratic society and also responds to the protection of certain other vital interests of the individual in a humane society.

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However, under Section One of the Charter, the state is authorized to legislate in order to limit this freedom when necessary to the development of democratic society.

One can fault his societal integrity for spying on a legal, non-criminal organization operating within the rules of a democratic society, but judgments about that shouldn't be extrapolated to conclusions about the integrity of scientists within science, even though it's tempting to do that.

And this is one more example of how Environmentalists regard the «ethics» of climate change as trumping fundamentals of democratic society.

She shares her concerns about the effect of this NSA scrutiny in the announcement of her nomination as a 2015 Library Journal Mover and Shaker: ``... surveillance is not only counter to the ideals of a democratic society, it's detrimental to the future of libraries.»

This guaranteed right is vital to the fabric of our democratic society.

It said: «There is no place under the Convention system, where tolerance and broadmindedness are the acknowledged hallmarks of democratic society, for automatic forfeiture of rights by prisoners based purely on what might offend public opinion.»

«Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism.

The open court principle has repeatedly been confirmed by the Supreme Court as a «hallmark of a democratic society» (Vancouver Sun, [2004] 2 S.C.R. 332, at para. 23), most recently in A.B. v. Bragg Communications Inc., 2012 SCC 46.

Legal aid should be publicly funded and available to all members of a democratic society, particularly those who are vulnerable or disadvantaged, says a new report from The Law Society of British Columbia.

• The rights of the individual in relation to the benefit of society — under what circumstances can personal privacy become secondary to the needs of society, considering the fundamental importance of privacy protection for the development of a democratic society as a whole?

23 This Court has emphasized on many occasions that the «open court principle» is a hallmark of a democratic society and applies to all judicial proceedings.

After all, solicitor - client privilege is a fundamental tenet of democratic society.

«A Miniature Kingdom» The most important thing to understand about a courtroom is that while it is an indispensable element of a democratic society, it is not itself a democracy.

Equitable access to justice is one of the most important attributes of a democratic society.

The second is that one of the fundamental goals of a democratic society is finding practical ways to resolve differences where agreement does not follow from debate.