Sentences with phrase «of ethical policy»

Ethical Issues We want a society where issues of ethical policy are debated openly and where decisions made on such issues are based on reason, evidence and shared human values.

In a religious tradition such a declaration of ethical policy is associated with «stories» or «parables» which Braithwaite treats as morally useful fictions:

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He dismissed the pressure to pursue an ethical foreign policy as the work of «influential minority elements among us that have some special interest» at heart and believed the American commitment to Israel was a strategic liability.

For that reason, organizations should give as much thought to the ethical content of their policies as they do to promulgating and enforcing them.

Thus every policy an organization puts in place ought to be thought of as grounded in one or more ethical principles or values.

This isn't the first instance that members have influenced MEC to drop a brand, Labistour said, and the organization has rigorous policies for investigating supply chains with a focus on ethical sourcing and the environmental footprint of the brands it carries.

We were therefore stunned and outraged to learn of the fraudulent circumvention and violation of the Firm's compliance policies and ethical standards by Andrew Caspersen, who was a member of the Secondaries Group at Park Hill since January 2013.

«There's clearly a growing awareness of these problems in the technical community,» says Solon Barocas, an assistant professor at Cornell who studies ethical and policy issues related to artificial intelligence.

Mr. Morneau has a credibility problem, in part due to his failure to manage ethical issues related to his personal finances, and to his failure to understand the broader policy and political implications of his tax proposals for CCPCs.

Because of the world - wide recognition of Dr. Cialdini's cutting - edge scientific research and his ethical business and policy applications, he is frequently regarded as the «Godfather of Influence.»

In this important work, Duddington takes consideration of a number of key ethical issues that face our contemporary policy and law - makers, including marriage, abortion, euthanasia, reproductive science, and religious conscience and freedoms.

The ethical and emotional crises that we experience today in relation to the thresholds of birth and death, the uncertainty as to where «personal» value may be located and anchored, and the resultant confusion in the realm of public policy and law are symptoms of the fundamental intellectual crisis of modern humanity.

They may frequently engage moral questions in institutional contexts where the theological warrants for a specific ethical issue may not be honored — as when they advise on matters of medical ethics, public policy and ecological practice.

c) Those opposed to WW2 fell into one of three major groups: * The communists, which remained opposed until Hitler invaded Russia; * The isolationists, that believed that non-interference was the only ethical foreign policy; * The Christians, that believed that all war was immoral, unethical, unjust, and contrary to what Scripture teaches.

The past forty years have brought a recovery of the idea of just war in Christian ethical discourse, and this has invigorated a larger engagement with the just war idea in policy debate, in the military sphere, in philosophical thought, and in dialogue between moral reflection and international law.

In a context where millions in our world are either excluded or have been rendered invisible by callous and inhuman policies and actions of international financial institutions and agencies (which are supposedly there to regulate trade and create the space for the powerless), to talk of ethical engagement of Christians in struggle for life, is more urgent now then ever before.

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

Issues of profound ethical import are sometimes put before us as technical economic policies.

The theological perspective which informed Underwood's exploration was H. Richard Niebuhr's theology of radical monotheism; the key ethical principle in the study was Niebuhr's «the responsible self engaged in shaping social policy.»

The answer to these questions can be understood more clearly if we investigate three of the most significant ethical issues involving television: violence; censorship and regulation; and the international implications of American media policies.

He explores four doctrines the affirmation of which define «boundaries» of Christian faith: sin and salvation, biblical revelation, the Trinity, Christology, and then describes the ethical outgrowth of accepting these doctrines: piety, polity, policy and program.

Furthermore, the proposals of deep ecologists illustrate the far too direct move from a new sensibility to policy recommendations that results from the depreciation of ethical reflection.

This is what leads me to believe that the primary role of the state is not to dictate decisions around these complex ethical considerations and its primary role lies with preventative and supportive policy.

From the seventeenth century, in reaction to these wars of religion, some politicians began to ignore moral constraints and to base their policies on reasons of state», which allowed a nation to deviate from the ethical norms required of the individual.

What are the implications of these theological and ethical convictions for the pressing problems of American foreign policy?

The «NCC Policy Statement on the Ethical Implications of Energy Production and Use» will surely meet with some disagreement and controversy, but if it provokes the churches to join the debate, we can only be grateful.

The product of this study is a «Proposed Policy Statement on the Ethical Implications of Energy Production and Use.»

In October 1977 the entire panel was assembled for an Energy Ethics Consultation, at which an effort was made to assess technologies and policies for energy use and production in terms of their consistency with Christian ethical concern for the social impact.

The fact that there was considerable harmony between my ethical convictions and the policies of the United States Government during the Second World War and during the early years of the cold war contributed to this» (Bennett, 9 - 10).

Religious models express and elicit ethical dedication and commitment to policies of action.

Parables are imaginative ways of endorsing an ethical policy or affirming one's commitment to a pattern of life.

It is for this reason that SPUC has launched The Mayisha Campaign (Mayisha meaning Life in Swahili) to raise awareness about maternal mortality, dispel the myths put about by abortion groups and lobby the Department for International Development to adopt an ethical foreign policy which respects the lives of both mothers and their babies.

Though Whitehead sees the church as one of several civil institutions that could strengthen families, she is not much interested in the church's potential role as a source of ethical reflection and public - policy recommendations.

Is the increase of Gross World Product the ethical end of policy even though it is accompanied by widening gaps between the rich and the poor?

To help ensure that Rainforest Alliance, Inc. (the «Rainforest Alliance») complies with the highest standards of financial reporting and lawful and ethical behavior, the Board of Directors of the Rainforest Alliance (the «Board») has established the following procedures for the reporting of illegal or unethical conduct in connection with the Rainforest Alliance's finances, corporate policies, or other aspects of its operations, and the retention and treatment of such complaints, including confidential, anonymous submissions received from directors, officers, employees, and volunteers who provide substantial services to the Rainforest Alliance (who are referred to in this policy as «volunteers»).

For example, in Fiji the former Minister of Health questioned the ethical issues of including the sugary drinks industry in the development of policies.

Our Code, which addresses every aspect of our business, sets high standards for conducting business in a legal and ethical manner and is the foundation of our corporate policies and procedures.

There are ethical reasons why the policy is in place, but a result of it is that it is going to suppress reporting and appear that the institution is actively doing it to suppress the reporting.

«Nestlé cites its inclusion in the FTSE4Good ethical investment index to divert criticism of its marketing practices, without revealing that it actually weakened its own marketing policy prior to inclusion.

It takes a lot of organising and they need sponsorship, but I wish they would introduce an ethical policy.

According to the Wikipedia: Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public - policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest.

When Labour came to power in 1997 they expressed a desire to move these issues onto the agenda, with a Human Rights Act, a PM opposed to ID cards, and such things as an «Ethical foreign policy» to express a belief that the rights of others could be placed above our national interest.

At the time, it was part of a civil rights agenda being set by the then Labour opposition, which included such things as the Human Right Act, and a (failed) «Ethical Foreign Policy» and was in stark contrast to the authoritarian approach of the then Conservative Government; Michael Howard's support for ID cards and Ken Clarke using PII Cetificates in the Matrix Churchill case spring to mind.

«We believe this is the most stringent ethical policy in the United States of America,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during an Albany press conference.

Former Erie County and City of Buffalo elected official Joel Giambra, longtime State Senator John DeFrancisco and former Housing Commissioner for the Pataki Administration Joe Holland took turns criticizing Governor Cuomo's Buffalo Billion program, an energy policy that bans hydrofracking, the state's taxes and regulations, ethical troubles in Albany and education policies including the Excelsior program.

Because of their focus on justice and virtuous behavior, ethical liberalism supports wealth redistribution policies (such as the New Deal in America).

Chatham House research last year showed that Conservatives, in stark contrast to supporters of their Lib Dem colleagues, tend to think that British interests rather than ethical considerations should drive UK foreign policy.

At 7 p.m., Declaration 17 will host a public reading by signatories of the «Declaration of Independence in Opposition to the Policies and Practices» of Trump, a document signed by hundreds of concerned citizens, Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W. 64th St. and Central Park West, Manhattan.

Speaking outside the House of Lords, he said the British government's defence of this law «gives lie to their claim to have an ethical foreign policy on human rights» and was an example of «moral and ethical hypocrisy».

The Liberal Democrats have challenged Gordon Brown to demonstrate his «ethical domestic policy» by helping all victims of collapsed pensions.