Sentences with phrase «of victims rights»

Those same authorities suggest the California Bar Association may soon establish an Allred Award for lawyers who help victims of victims rights attorneys, those who prey on their malleable client - victims for their own political purposes.

We often feel the plight of the victim right in the pit of our stomachs.

A review of victim's rights, whether they are minors, college students, undocumented immigrants, and / or men, from Carly N. Mee of SurvJustice and Colby Bruno of the Victim Rights Law Center (VRLC).

Not exact matches

Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct.

«The only real reference point right now is commercial air travel, and we are a victim of our own excellent safety measures,» says Dr. Clay Cowl, chair of the Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota, who was not involved in Castleberry's research.

Journalists are right to be sensitive to the feelings of rape victims, the report said, but they need to balance that instinct with rigorous verification, which it said was in the best interest of the survivor.

Our Government will introduce a Victims Bill of Rights to restore victims to their rightful place at the heart of our justice Victims Bill of Rights to restore victims to their rightful place at the heart of our justice victims to their rightful place at the heart of our justice system.

Internet security expert Joseph Steinberg told CNBC that the criminals typically do not demand a big sum of money, instead preferring to get the payment right away and insisting that the person from whom the ransom is demanded stay on the phone with them for fear that if connection is established with the alleged victim, the scam will be exposed.

People prefer safe investments such as Treasury bonds because they realize that banks have lobbied to deprive victims of financial fraud of their rights.

Former California governor and Terminator movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger says he plans to sue the big oil companies for «first degree murder», likening their actions to those of tobacco companies, and NGOs are suing Big Oil in the Philippines for violating the human rights of typhoon victims.

The Confrontation Clause in the Sixth Amendment grants all Americans the right to face their accusers in court; Aquilina upended this, allowing all of Nassar's accusers to give victim - impact statements, telling him, and the world, what he had done.

I was thinking this the other day, when a lot of the Facebook executives get on Twitter and feel victim - y, they're doing their victim - y dance right now a lot of the time, and at one point, Boz, Bosworth, when he said, «Maybe people will die,» that memo, and instead of being like, «Oh god, we really have to be more mature about this,» their thing was, «We can't talk now.»

It would create endless conflicts between the stipulated rights of victims and the constitutional rights of defendants.

Florida's constitution was amended in 1988 to say that victims have rights «to be informed, to be present and to be heard when relevant, at all crucial stages of criminal proceedings, to the extent that these rights do not interfere with the constitutional rights of the accused.»

In Guatemala in the mid-1990s, after a civil war that had lasted three decades, Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi mobilized the Catholic Church to conduct its own unofficial truth commission that uncovered over 14,000 human rights violations through a unique mode of investigation that supported victims pastorally.

This is why I fight for men's rights, not because I don't care that women are many times victims of terrible treatment, but because there are billions of dollars and billions of people protecting women while men are ignored.

In the political realm, this encompasses the commitments of the liberal peace to human rights and even accountability for war criminals, but it also includes the redress of the wide range of wounds that tyrannical violence inflicts through a correspondingly wide range of practices that bring a measure of restoration to victims as well as perpetrators.

While Tutsis were mainly the victims of the genocide, their rebel army, the Rwandan Patriotic Force, committed its own crimes during its campaign to overthrow the Hutu government in 1994, while after 1994 the Tutsi government's army, according to reports of the U.N. and human - rights groups, massacred thousands of Hutu civilians in exile in the DRC.

So then, The statement of «sin no more», is actually quite appropriate to the criminally - minded that still blur right from wrong, and literally pursue victims.

Instead of seeking cover, she ran right to the scene of the tragedy, risking her life, and did all she could to help the victims.

As for the mentally ill, they're the victims of liberal policies decades ago that declared mental illness a «right» and opened the doors to the mental hospitals dedicated to treating them.

That is, it was done prematurely without sufficient legal and international underpinnings and support and the end result was the Arab - Israel war which has led right up to where we are right now with over 100,000 innocent Iraqi victims, 4500 US soldiers dead, and trillions of dollars spent.

I hope that my past misery of being a victim will help somebody live in right now victory.

John F. Kennedy was not a victim of the irrational American right wing; he was a casualty of the Cold War» a Cold War, Piereson reminds us, that he prosecuted vigorously, if not always wisely or successfully.

Fundamentalists and ether conservative religious groups deserve our sympathy and toleration (even if they sometimes are intolerant of the rights of others) They are often the victims of religious bigotry and bureaucratic indifference.

The classic civil - rights movement was determined to reshape America through moral reason; distorted into a twisted parody of itself through the victim culture, it was followed by a moralism self - consciously detached from reason that would prove incapable of calling anyone, black or white, to the great cause of equal justice for all.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

The move to retain GRACE for its investigation also comes after Do Right BJU, a group of students, alumni, and staff who aim to support victims of sexual abuse on campus, held a silent protest...

I think the fact that there is an over-arching, enduring covenant that somehow reaches out in the mess, both standing with and healing the victims AND extending opportunity for growing to the grossest offender, gets at the exact kind of mercy that will most right the world.

It was precisely because of their deeply cherished faith that women were compelled to organize for the vote, for women to be declared persons under the law, for the rights of workers, for women to wear pants, for temperance even (because the victims of drunkenness were usually women and children), and so on.

Ask a victim of slavery or of prostitution if it's all right to legislate at least a portion of the natural law.

• The portrayal of women as «victims,» the exaggerations of women's suffering, and the denial that advances have been made in recognition of women's rights.

Gary Haugen has witnessed some of the most devastating human rights abuses of this generation from child slavery to the exhumation of genocide victims in Rwanda.

Gary Haugen has witnessed some of the most devastating human rights abuses of this generation from child slavery to the exhumation of genocide victims... More

I performed, with repetition, outrage and anger, the victim of someone else's god, I jumped, Pavlovian, to right every wrong and defend every truth, refute every blog post, pontificate to every question.

The U.S. government cites reduced numbers of death - squad victims as «proof» of its commitment to human rights in El Salvador and the success of that commitment.

«Building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain - unnecessarily - and that is not right,» said the organization in a statement.

While church leaders have long blasted the media for exposing paedophiles in their ranks, Francis thanked news organisations for respecting the confidentiality of those victims who came forward to testify, while «respecting the right of citizens to information».

All of the victims were apparently targeted for assassination because they were members of neighborhood organizations or members of local human rights groups that had demanded that the perpetrators of the violence be brought to justice.

Although further U.S. aid to El Salvador seems a foregone conclusion, some congress people hope to make it conditional on assurances of open access to provide help to civilian victims of the civil war — a right recognized by international law.

highparson So it is moral for a man to ra.p.e a woman, which then leaves a stain on the VICTIM, and the attacker can make it right by giving her father 50 sheckles of silver and marry his victim, thus removing HER immoral VICTIM, and the attacker can make it right by giving her father 50 sheckles of silver and marry his victim, thus removing HER immoral victim, thus removing HER immoral stain.

The event will be attended by thousands of victims from all walks of life - soldiers who lost limbs clearing landmines, mothers whose children were forcibly recruited by the rebels, never to be seen again and farmers driven off their land by right - wing paramilitary groups.

This article describes a daring idea both for Desmond Tutu and the BBC in which the victims or families of the victims were invited to confront on TV either the perpetrator or someone associated with the organization that had sanctioned, planned and accomplished the killing or injury of their loved ones during the Civil rights marches in the late 1960s.

You can't spend millions of dollars targeting the civil rights of a minority group then cry victim when some members of that group have a few laughs at your expense.

In our judgment, building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain — unnecessarily — and that is not right.

Sorry, Dude, but this routine of right - wingers, «religious wrong» and anti-gays whining that their intended victims are «the real bullies» is getting mighty old.

«In our judgment, building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain - unnecessarily - and that is not right,» the statement continued.

The voiceless victims were neglected and expendable, Thus while the European people were endeavouring to safeguard their rights in their countries, they did not generally think of the rights of the people of other parts of the world.

In order to have a framework of reference we shall comment on the rights enshrined in the declaration, while noting some aspects in which it needs further development especially to meet the aspirations of the poor victims of the poor countries.

While I find this situation as intolerable as any right thinking human being should, I find it interesting that when the victim is Christian so many Christians come out of the wood work.