Sentences with phrase «on human rights grounds»

The report criticises on human rights grounds the Northern Territory Government's abolition in 1998 of bilingual education programs for Aboriginal students in public schools.

His appeal to an adjudicator was allowed on asylum and on human rights grounds, including Art 8 (right to family and private life) of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention).

Clarity and proportionality in the legislation is key in order to avoid challenge of the IPB on human rights grounds.

Substantial experience defending vulnerable clients in extradition proceedings, including on human rights grounds.

It is also possible to challenge a suspension on human rights grounds.

Daniel has experience of representing clients both at the First Tier and Upper Tribunals in matters brought both within and outside the Immigration Rules and on Human Rights grounds.

Recently the State Department released an additional US $ 55 million in bilateral aid to Honduras, despite efforts by some members of Congress to block the move on human rights grounds.

The case is being taken on human rights grounds, seeking to challenge the injustice that means religious ceremonies are recognised while humanist ones are not.

Months after the defeat, however, the DWP is now arguing that the first tier tribunal didn't have the right to rule on human rights grounds in the first place.

The legal difference in the status of mothers and fathers could potentially be challengeable on human rights grounds — this needs to be checked as the new proposal is considered.

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent the first years of his mandate shunning China on human - rights grounds, but as the global economy has shifted he has become «Mr. Panda Man» — a reference to the PM's fawning over two cuddly Chinese ambassadors.

The Equal Opportunities Commission (now the Equality and Human Rights Commission, EHR) spent a great deal of your money and mine in telling schools to ban books which showed boys taking the lead or doing adventurous things, on the grounds that such books were «sexist».

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

So I embraced atheism and gay human rights activism, becoming part of a group which successfully lobbied for a clause banning discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in South Africa's postapartheid constitution.

Modern science and technology would have to be more modest, human rights would have to receive better grounds and be coupled with duties and gratitude, and the validity of a «personal point of view» on things would have to be recognized.

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EU citizens also enjoy legal protections of the EU law, [7] specifically the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union [8] and acts and directives regarding e. g. protection of personal data, rights of victims of crime, preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, equal pay, protection from discrimination in employment on grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation anRights of the European Union [8] and acts and directives regarding e. g. protection of personal data, rights of victims of crime, preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, equal pay, protection from discrimination in employment on grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation anrights of victims of crime, preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, equal pay, protection from discrimination in employment on grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation and age.

All other legal grounds opposing the extradition in British courts have been dealt with, but Mr Johnson could still block the move on the grounds the extradition could contravene article three of the Human Rights Act.

Both Ms Riddick, whose children attend schools in the Vale of Glamorgan, and Humanists UK were given permission to challenge the Council's decision on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against humanists and has the effect of relegating non-religious worldviews below religions in a way which fails to comply with the Human Rights Act and European Convention on Human Rights.

Under the new plan, the government will have the power to veto investment decisions made locally on ethical grounds concerning human rights, arms trade, fossil fuels and much else.

The agreement text gives us some grounds for hope on this score, but we have not yet seen how our new Conservative colleagues will respond to a renewed tabloid attack on the Human Rights Act.

The Cuban government does not publish statistics on the number of people convicted on these grounds, but the non-governmental Cuban commission for human rights and national reconciliation, estimates that there are currently between 3,000 and 5,000 people in prison in Cuba convicted of «pre-criminal social dangerousness.»

According to the report, Üskül likely «was dismissed as the head of the constitutional law department» because of a petition he had brought «to the Turkish parliament's Human Rights Commission objecting to an optical fingerprint scanning security system installed on campus on the grounds that it harmed academic freedom.»

This would need training for security officers on issues of human rights to strategies of assisting victim to initiate prosecution where there favourable grounds.

In Ontario, the Human Rights Code protects the «right to equal treatment with respect to employment without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status or disability» and also protects against discrimination based on the intersection of multiple of these grounds.

Since last year, lawyers for the defendants from various governmental organizations have attempted to get the case dismissed on various grounds, including the question of whether minors can defend their constitutional rights like adults, as well as asserting that climate change is not caused by humans.

[4] Unfortunately, Vigna became part of Levant's campaign to denormalize the Human Rights Commissions when he sought an adjournment of a hearing on the grounds that he was not feeling well stating he was not in a «serene state of mind».

But NSBS amended its regulation to add a qualifier that says a person meeting this criterion could be licensed, «unless council, acting in the public interest, determines that the university granting the degree unlawfully discriminates in its law student admissions or enrolment policies or requirements on grounds prohibited by either or both the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act.»

For readers who are unfamiliar with the Rules, section 6.3.1 - 3 imposes on lawyers a duty to ensure that their employment practices comply with section 6.3.1 - 1, which highlights their special obligation to comply with Ontario's Human Rights Code, and section 6.3.1 - 2, which imposes a duty on lawyers to ensure that their services are not denied to members of the public based on prohibited grounds.

a special responsibility to respect the requirements of human rights laws in force in Ontario and, specifically, to honour the obligation not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences (as defined in the Ontario Human Rights Code), marital status, family status, or disability with respect to professional employment of other lawyers, articled students, or any other person or in professional dealings with other licensees or any other person [emphasis adhuman rights laws in force in Ontario and, specifically, to honour the obligation not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences (as defined in the Ontario Human Rights Code), marital status, family status, or disability with respect to professional employment of other lawyers, articled students, or any other person or in professional dealings with other licensees or any other person [emphasis arights laws in force in Ontario and, specifically, to honour the obligation not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences (as defined in the Ontario Human Rights Code), marital status, family status, or disability with respect to professional employment of other lawyers, articled students, or any other person or in professional dealings with other licensees or any other person [emphasis adHuman Rights Code), marital status, family status, or disability with respect to professional employment of other lawyers, articled students, or any other person or in professional dealings with other licensees or any other person [emphasis aRights Code), marital status, family status, or disability with respect to professional employment of other lawyers, articled students, or any other person or in professional dealings with other licensees or any other person [emphasis added].

It is impossible to implement a lawyer's «special responsibility» for human rights under 6.3.1 - 1, for example, to honour those «obligations» with «any other person,» even outside of professional dealings, without considering the «adverse impact on individuals or groups on the basis of the prohibited grounds,» and ameliorative programs intended to affect discrimination.

It is an area that may continue to evolve as adjudicators seek to balance, on the other hand, the desire not to have a hierarchy of human rights where certain grounds of discrimination are more protected than others against, on the other hand, the recognition that employers can not accommodate all family choices and preferences.

The only limitation is human rights statutes, which provide that employers can not make hiring decisions based on prohibited grounds, such as age, religion or sexual orientation.

That mental handicaps (learning disabilities, retardation or mental illness) and a previous history of mental illness or a previous history of dependence on alcohol or other drugs be added to the proscribed grounds of discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA).

The Ontario Human Rights Code prohibits discrimination on a variety of grounds, including «family status».

The Complainant, Krystyna Raczynska, launched a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission on the grounds of age discrimination in the course of employment practices.

A great example is the Ontario Human Rights Commission's brochure on gender identity and expression, which is very helpful for employers and employees trying to understand their rights and obligations related to the protected grounds of gender identity and expreRights Commission's brochure on gender identity and expression, which is very helpful for employers and employees trying to understand their rights and obligations related to the protected grounds of gender identity and exprerights and obligations related to the protected grounds of gender identity and expression.

In addition to the existing protection against discrimination and harassment based on prohibited grounds in human rights legislation, employees in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario will also benefit from Occupation Health and Safety legislation stipulations requiring workplace policies for violence and harassment.

«We are very disappointed that the decision did not engage with the human rights issues at stake in the case, instead deciding the case on procedural grounds,» noted Kendra Milne, Director of Law Reform at West Coast LEAF.

Nicholas Griffin QC, of 5 Paper Buildings, said: «It is not that surprising that it has been successfully challenged in the High Court under human rights and EU law on similar grounds as led the CJEU to strike down the Directive.

This judgment has also come along at a time when the European Court of Human Rights» decision is awaited in the four conjoined cases of Ladele, Eweida, Macfarlane and Chaplin, all of which involve issues of religious freedom and two of which involve the same potential conflict between the right not to be discriminated against on grounds of sexual orientation and the right to religious freedom (see our posts here, here and here).

He noted (among other things) the decision of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Carson v United Kingdom [2010] ECHR 338, (2010) 51 EHRR 13 where (referring to its 2006 decision in Stec and others v UK (2006) 43 EHRR 1017, [2006] All ER (D) 215 (Apr)-RRB-, the court said: «Because of their direct knowledge of their society and its needs, the national authorities are in principle better placed than the international judge to appreciate what is in the public interest on social or economic grounds, and the court will generally respect the legislature's policy choice unless it is «manifestly without reasonable foundation».

Currently, the Canadian Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on a person's sex and sexual orientation, among other grounds.

However, implementing a blanket prohibition on moonlighting could lead an employee to claim discrimination based on various human rights grounds, such as disability, family status or social condition.

Successful emergency interim injunctions to prevent a funeral and to give effect to the wishes of the deceased's family on the grounds of Human Rights and inherent jurisdiction of the High Court.

On 8 October 2009 the Derbyshire police force issued a statement denying assertions by senior Tory politicians at their Party Conference that they had «refused to release photographs on the grounds of the human rights of the offenders»On 8 October 2009 the Derbyshire police force issued a statement denying assertions by senior Tory politicians at their Party Conference that they had «refused to release photographs on the grounds of the human rights of the offenders»on the grounds of the human rights of the offenders».

The management and allocation of housing stock by a housing trust which is a registered social landlord under the Housing Act 1996, including decisions concerning the termination of a tenancy, is a function of a public nature, with the effect that the registered social landlord is to regarded as a public authority for the purposes of s 6 (3)(b) of the Human Rights Act 1998 and so is amenable to judicial review on conventional public law grounds in respect of its performance of that function.

Richardson and Kulbashian are currently appealing the decision on the grounds of error in judgement, as well as challenging the constitutionality of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

You are protected within the Alberta Human Rights Act if you are discriminated against or harassed based on the following grounds: