Sentences with phrase «of universal human rights»

Two thousand and seven was the fifteenth anniversary of Mabo No 2, the High Court decision that prompted the government to pass the Native Title Act 1993.2 In passing the Act the Australian Parliament took into account that the Government had acted to protect the rights of all of its citizens, and in particular its Indigenous peoples, by recognising the international standards for the protection of universal human rights and fundamental freedoms.3 The Act was intended to be a special measure for the advancement and protection of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders.

The Australian Government has acted to protect the rights of all of its citizens, and in particular its indigenous peoples, by recognising international standards for the protection of universal human rights and fundamental freedoms...»

[35] In the development of the common law (and equity and administrative law), international law is a legitimate and important influence, especially when international law declares the existence of universal human rights.

By particularizing the rights of indigenous peoples, the Declaration seeks to accomplish what should have been accomplished without it: the application of universal human rights principles in a way that appreciates not just the humanity of indigenous individuals but that also values the bonds of community they form...

Justice Brennan confirmed that while «the common law does not necessarily conform with international law, international law is a legitimate and important influence on the development of the common law, especially when international law declares the existence of universal human rights».

The common law does not necessarily conform with international law, but international law is a legitimate and important influence on the development of the common law, especially when international law declares the existence of universal human rights.

If the UN Charter, which is a pledge, wants to further the notion of universal human rights and fundamental freedoms, using the co-operative model, they need to produce substantial evidence that Canada's conduct (Member State) has been self - contradictory and un-reasonable.

In addition, the Dakota Access Pipeline is in direct violation of the United Nation's Declaration of Universal Human Rights, most especially in regards to the right to security of person, the right to not be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Somewhat obscured and ignored throughout history, considered minor to the revolutions of the USA and France, the Haitian Revolution was perhaps the only revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries to truly live up to the Enlightenment ideals of the universal human rights of freedom and equality.

«We must not permit any kind of question marks and prejudices to affect the young generations, but instead we must act together with determination in the fight against anti-Semitism and in the defense of the United Nations declaration of universal human rights.

Wild animals are not owed citizenship rights but should be regarded as members of sovereign communities and granted the animal equivalent of universal human rights.

So we have to work for «reconciled diversity» within the framework of universal human rights, including the rights of persons and peoples.

The development of universal human rights would generally be acknowledged as a prerequisite of modern civilisation.

Whole civilizations reject the Western conception of universal human rights, including, principally, freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

To speak of a universal human nature and of universal human rights is not to deny the pluralism that marks the human condition.

The ideological underpinnings of universal human rights jurisprudence can best be gathered by glimpses of International Conferences organized under the auspices of the United Nations.

Moreover, in our time the language of universal human rights is the most available discourse for cross-cultural deliberation about the dignity of the human person.

The Declaration's language of universal human rights is not the only moral language available to us in confronting threats to human dignity.

There is today a curious and dangerous convergence between philosophical nihilists and radical multiculturalists, on the one hand, and, on the other, those states that reject the idea of universal human rights as an instance of cultural imperialism.

Cardinal O'Brien made exactly the same point, and it's worth considering why he argued that gay marriage would be «a grotesque subversion of a universal human right»; note exactly where the language of human rights comes from here:

Not exact matches

The team has already engraved the quarter - size discs with full copies of the King James Bible, the Magna Carta, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Harper even drew on Canadian John Humphry's drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an argument for militarizing Canadian foreign policy.

This is not to dismiss or marginalize the importance of civil and political rights such as freedom of expression and religion, but rather to adopt an integrated approach recognizing that all internationally recognized human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated.

Adequate health care and the right to security during sickness is guaranteed under Article 25 of the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights, however these rights are regularly violated and, for those in our nation least able to afford it, access to affordable health care often remains out of Rights, however these rights are regularly violated and, for those in our nation least able to afford it, access to affordable health care often remains out of rights are regularly violated and, for those in our nation least able to afford it, access to affordable health care often remains out of reach.

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.

We wrote Tuesday about the U.S. State Department's document, «Report of the United States of America Submitted to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights In Conjunction with the Universal Periodic Review.»

When the catena of kaleidoscopic identities is open - ended, the meaningfulness of universal human nature and thus of everything predicated on that — including universal human rights — becomes vanishingly small.

«The United States stands in solidarity with Pastor Nadarkhani, his family, and all those who seek to practice their religion without fear of persecution - a fundamental and universal human right.»

As a participant in that 1998 Ramsey Colloquium, a longtime supporter of the cautious use of rights language, and a frequent critic of its misuses, I was moved by Reno's arguments to ponder whether the noble post — World War II universal human - rights idea has finally been so manipulated and politicized as to justify its abandonment by men and women of good will.

Biblical principles require what the United Nations» Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) stipulates: «Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children» (Art. 26,3).

Among the universal human rights he championed was the freedom of religion.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that «parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.»

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948, through Resolution 217A (III).

And in reducing freedom of religion to «freedom of worship» in its political and diplomatic pronouncements, the United States can no longer invoke the First Amendment and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, thus weakening its ability to combat the international movement to criminalize religious speech.

The openhearted observer of Islam in the West can discern the shape of hope in the increasing willingness of people of the two faiths to come together for dialogue and consultation on the mutual problems they face; in the reevaluation of Islam forced upon Muslims by their minority status in many places; and in the development of the concept of international law and universal human rights.

The present regime claims to be secular, deriving its values from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and «neutral» in respect of the different religions of Ethiopia.

The objectives of the Charter of Medina provide a suitable framework for national constitutions in countries with Muslim majorities, and the United Nations Charter and related documents, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are in harmony with the Charter of Medina, including consideration for public order.

If ethics is allowed to be controlled by the laws of any individual state there is a danger of returning to legal positivism, where the laws of a single state are allowed to contradict universal human rights, allowing residents of that state «legally» to carry out actions that are totally unacceptable to the international community and the Catholic Church.

Nothing less than that is required of those who are the heirs and guardians of the historic achievement that is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Fifty Years Later: - A Statement of the Ramsey Colloquium

Article 25 (1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, specifically recognizes «housing» as one of the rights relating to lRights, 1948, specifically recognizes «housing» as one of the rights relating to lrights relating to living.

Complaints about the cultural «imposition» of ideas about universal human rights are, more often than not, in the service of nationalism, racism, ideology, or power politics - or all of these in combination.

All the forty freedoms are endorsed by international accords such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The framers of the Declaration knew that they could not at that time spell out fully the moral and philosophical reasons undergirding universal human rights.

A renewed adherence to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights requires a clearer distinction between rights as endowments that we must never violate and rights as claims that we must strive to saRights requires a clearer distinction between rights as endowments that we must never violate and rights as claims that we must strive to sarights as endowments that we must never violate and rights as claims that we must strive to sarights as claims that we must strive to satisfy.

Walter Harrelson's little book, The Ten Commandments and Human Rights (Fortress, 1980), is one of the most important recent attempts to show how the biblical understanding of human obligation under God gave rise to the principles present in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human RiHuman Rights (Fortress, 1980), is one of the most important recent attempts to show how the biblical understanding of human obligation under God gave rise to the principles present in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rihuman obligation under God gave rise to the principles present in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human RiHuman Rights.

The language of rights might be viewed as a developing grammar that makes possible a truly universal dialogue about our common human future.

Murders most foul, on a massive scale, in the name of the United Nations makes a mockery of human rights and a trickery of the Universal Declaration.

Our commitments to human rights, if it is beyond verbomania, must be the semi-centennial celebration of the Universal Declaration as of Indian Independence.

Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that «everyone has the right to life».