Sentences with phrase «on race equality»

Last year Nick Clegg established a task force on race equality, chaired by Meral Ece.

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Religion News Service: Obama extols a biblical vision of equality for all in second inaugural A presidential inauguration is by tradition the grandest ritual of America's civil religion, but President Obama took the oath of office on Monday (Jan. 21) in a ceremony that was explicit in joining theology to the nation's destiny and setting out a biblical vision of equality that includes race, gender, class, and, most controversially, sexual orientation.

Soviet Russia is the nearest approach to the realization of the Christian intention that the world has yet seen, for the intention of a universal community based on equality and freedom, overriding differences of nationality, race, sex, and «religion,» is its explicit and conscious purpose.18

Being constantly reminded on the one hand of the infinite gap between one's own limited talents and vision and the perspective of Almighty God, and on the other of the radical equality with which God judges and loves the human race is a healthy counterweight to the flattery of the world and the smugness that comes with success.

It is unfair of us to expect or impose a twentieth century mentality and understanding about equality of genders, races and sexual orientations on the Biblical writers.

Two people cash have differing opinions on abortion, h0m0s3xuality, capital punishment, women's rights, race equality, the treatment of children, animals, and the environment, plus a host of other topics, and still be justified in calling themselves «Christian».

Appointed in 1986, Scalia has been on the Court long enough to have tackled virtually every important legal issue of our day: abortion, religious liberty, race and gender equality, gay rights, and separation of powers, among others.

«Whites (and American institutions) must acknowledge historical racism to show themselves redeemed of it, but once they acknowledge it, they lose moral authority over everything having to do with race, equality, social justice, poverty, and so on.

Lisa Sharon Harper @lisasharper An executive for a non-profit and columnist, Harper brings a deeply biblical perspective on race and equality.

This is just talk, and public breastfeeding really isn't on the same level as race equality.

At the start of the year, the opposition to these policies was largely within NGOs and charities working with migrants and refugees, race equality organisations, and a number of concerned parliamentarians and representatives including Brian Paddick in the House of Lords, Sian Berry on the London Assembly, and Caroline Lucas in the House of Commons.

Harriet Harman, the Equalities minister, wants a new law to put «the persistent inequality of social class» on the same footing as discrimination on grounds of race, gender, sexuality or disability.

«For my part, I will spend the next 27 days continuing to spread the word about the clear choice facing voters in this race — between my progressive plan for better healthcare and high - paying jobs in Queens, and Peter Vallone's extreme Conservative Party - backed views on core issues like women's healthcare and marriage equality,» she added.

While NOM insists Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin's «yes» vote on gay marriage could cost him the race, HRC stresses that no matter who wins tonight (assuming it's not too close to immediately call, which is a distinct possibility, given the history of past NY House specials) marriage equality «did not play an influential, even modest, role in the outcome.»

We know racial justice is a worker issue, that racial equality is a union goal: we can not win at work when race divides us, nor does fairness truly exist when some of us are profiled at home, targeted on the streets, and treated unequally in the courts.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Longtime Democratic Madison Mayor Paul Soglin joined the race for Wisconsin governor on Wednesday, immediately tying Republican Gov. Scott Walker with President Donald Trump and attacking both of them as violating and undermining American principles of fairness and equality.

A reformer who won the lion's share of labor endorsements in the race, including that of the Working Families Party, Torres was supported by State Senator Gustavo Rivera, who ousted disgraced and jailed incumbent Pedro Espada, Jr. in 2010, as well as by the Bronx's most popular elected official, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. (who has broken with his father on social issues like LGBT rights and marriage equality).

Described on their blog as an «online training for yogis willing to talk about race, equality and oppression with honesty and mindfulness,» the syllabus looks very interesting:

Dee Rees» powerful and contemplative look at two families in Mississippi in the 1940s is a sprawling and often uncomfortable confrontation of race relations in a post-Civil War South that never really got on board with racial equality.

The background information focuses on Muslim and Christian teachings about race equality.

After graduation, she launched The Disruptive Equity Education Project (DEEP), a hybrid nonprofit / for profit organization, focused on building collaborative teams to tackle the complexities of race, equity, and equality.

15, took part in the student - sponsored die - in and participated in conversations that were happening around campus on race, justice, and equality.

Dr. Trent has also focused on the impacts of race and ethnicity on social stratification and mobility, as well as on equality of opportunity.

With a growing focus on poverty, race, and equality in America, Milner's timely and sophisticated book deserves widespread discussion and debate.

ALT - WORLD RENEGADE With a timely novel focusing on race and equality, Ben H. Winters turns the issue of slavery on its head in Underground Airlines.

«With a timely novel focusing on race and equality, Ben H. Winters turns the issue of slavery on its head in Underground Airlines.

Recent protests against white supremacy and Confederate monuments in the American south have made it clear that the complexities of our history continue to influence and confound contemporary perspectives on race, rights and equality.

Then follows «mental health of leftist activists», an extensive section on bias in social psychology and nmore general problems being addressed by the Heterodox Academy effort, the sociology of single - parenting, studies involving race / gender with IQ, personality, intellectual abilities and differences in interest, genetics and human evolution, enforced gender equality, scientific socialism, eugenics and the zero - population - growth movement, misguided environmentalism, and finally, a bit about climate change, rapidly followed by the «food police» and «diet wars», and then returning to a treatment of the Climate Wars.

On the contrary, the scientific evidence supports such ethical positions I may take, on questions of human equality, race, human sexuality, religious freedom, non-religious freedom, ideas on the need to conserve the environment for future generations etc etc Even on questions of nuclear power and genetic engineering, which those of similar political persuasion to my own sometimes have difficulty with, I'd say yes, lets be guided by science and science alonOn the contrary, the scientific evidence supports such ethical positions I may take, on questions of human equality, race, human sexuality, religious freedom, non-religious freedom, ideas on the need to conserve the environment for future generations etc etc Even on questions of nuclear power and genetic engineering, which those of similar political persuasion to my own sometimes have difficulty with, I'd say yes, lets be guided by science and science alonon questions of human equality, race, human sexuality, religious freedom, non-religious freedom, ideas on the need to conserve the environment for future generations etc etc Even on questions of nuclear power and genetic engineering, which those of similar political persuasion to my own sometimes have difficulty with, I'd say yes, lets be guided by science and science alonon the need to conserve the environment for future generations etc etc Even on questions of nuclear power and genetic engineering, which those of similar political persuasion to my own sometimes have difficulty with, I'd say yes, lets be guided by science and science alonon questions of nuclear power and genetic engineering, which those of similar political persuasion to my own sometimes have difficulty with, I'd say yes, lets be guided by science and science alone.

Discrimination: Irrespective of length of service, an employee may bring a claim for discriminatory dismissal or discrimination based on any one of the nine discriminatory grounds contrary to equality legislation (i.e., gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race (including colour, nationality and ethnic or national origin) and membership of the traveller community).

The Center for Research - Action on Race Relations is a Montreal - based independent, non-profit civil rights organization that was founded in 1983 with the mandate to promote racial equality and combat racism in Canada.

While at BITC, she led their workplace campaigns on gender and race equality, employee health and wellbeing, and learning and development.

We work on equality rights in relation to mental health, disability, gender, youth, immigration, refugees, race, poverty, and LGBTQ rights.

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She sat on the recent Independent Review Panel examining race equality at Cardiff University Medical School.

The 1960 Canadian Bill of Rights affirmed the right to equality before the law and, in the Drybones case, the Supreme Court of Canada held that an Aboriginal person had been unfairly discriminated against on the basis of race by being convicted under an Indian Act provision that made it an offence for an Aboriginal person to be intoxicated off - reserve.

There just aren't enough positions on the top court to make it sensible to treat the issues of gender and race with an equality policy alone.

The Legal Services Commission (LSC) is denying claims that it has been forced to undertake race equality impact assessments on legal aid reforms after judicial proceedings were launched against it.

Chicago - Kent College of Law of the Illinois Institute of Technology provides equality of opportunity in legal education for all persons, including faculty and employees, with respect to hiring, continuation, promotion and tenure, applicants for admission, enrolled students, and alumni, without discrimination on the ground of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

Rather than the courts focusing on the differential treatment on the basis of race, a substantive equality approach focuses on the impact of that treatment on the racial group concerned.

Under this Convention, Australia has undertaken to provide equality before the law and not to discriminate on the basis of race.

The report looks at what has been achieved under the five dimensions of reconciliation shown in the image above — race relations, equality and equity, institutional integrity, unity, and historical acceptance — and makes detailed recommendations on how we can progress reconciliation into the next generation.

This result, that substantive equality permits invidious differentiation on the basis of race, is inconsistent with a human rights approach.

On this view, differential treatment on the basis of race that seeks to achieve equality is not discriminatorOn this view, differential treatment on the basis of race that seeks to achieve equality is not discriminatoron the basis of race that seeks to achieve equality is not discriminatory.

In the State of Reconciliation in Australia report, Reconciliation Australia draws on international comparative research into reconciliation experiences in other countries to identify five key dimensions of reconciliation: race relations, equality and equity, institutional integrity, unity, and historical acceptance.

The Commission submits that it is contrary to the guarantee of equality and prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of race, religion, language and ethnic origin where the law regards that which is the sum of the relationship in the nature of title between indigenous people and the land as more readily destroyed by a paramount grant than the nearest full equivalent title (an estate in fee simple) of non indigenous persons.