Sentences with phrase «on racial equality»

In particular, the introduction of the confirmation provisions, which provided for the extinguishment or partial extinguishment of native title by the creation of non-native title tenures and classes of tenures, was criticised as a breach of the international and domestic law on racial equality.

«This case presents the opportunity for a landmark decision like Brown v. Board of Education (on racial equality) or Obergefell v. Hodges (on marriage equality),» Julia Olson, one of the kids» lawyers, wrote in a briefing sent to msnbc.

Not surprisingly, the views on racial equality and whether it» actually achievable in this country vary widely among blacks and whites, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

The burden to keep the focus on racial equality is on those who are willing to keep fighting for it, Clayborn said.

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But, more than that, they would show you, by the characters they featured and the plotlines they put forward, a new way of seeing things on issues ranging from racial equality to obesity prevention to the global fight against AIDS.

Rather, it is a plaintive cry for the need to actively engage this problem, for the elevation of concern for racial equality to a position of priority on our government's domestic affairs agenda.

From the beginning, we have believed that the Spirit given on the day of Pentecost causes both «sons and daughters to prophesy»... We had no connections to liberal social movements, but were demonstrating racial equality in pockets all around the world years before the modern civil rights movement.

His ideas on gays will be cast on the ash heap of history, along with those opposing racial, religious, ethnic, and gender equality.

It means speaking on behalf of the death penalty, racial equality, and American aid to Israel.

While the nations on the Continent had their revolutions and, for good or evil, fought over ideas — whether it be the divine right of kings, liberty, equality, and fraternity, scientific socialism, or racial superiority — we were, as Napoleon and others have said, a nation of shopkeepers.

That racial equality has a direct bearing on world peace is evident to anyone who views the world scene as a whole, though it is often forgotten in the local setting.

In cases of racial discrimination by public agencies within the community, the Church must be willing to stand up and be counted on the side of equality.

The goal was lessons on discipline, work ethic and equality: A working - class man whose ancestors had come to America from Germany in the 18th century as indentured servants had no intention of passing along the ways of racial segregation that marked that place in time.

It criticises the «complete lack of transparency» around the Department for Education's free schools programme and the lack of robust processes to ensure that free schools are properly scrutinised and accountable on grounds of racial equality.

... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law.

Founded in 1967, the party focuses on socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism and racial equality, according to the party's website.

And after reports that equality watchdog Trevor Philips is to claim a «cold war» based on racial and religious tensions could erupt in the UK due to concerns over mass immigration, Mr Johnson said a reassessment of British immigration policy was paramount.

Hawkin's Green State of the State spends a lot of time on racial and economic equality, which he says are linked.

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.

The pair also say that correlations with attitudes towards social issues like gender or racial equality could explain the differences, with those interviewed on the phone seemingly more socially liberal than average, while those polled online are more socially conservative.

Conference panellists Baroness Diana Warwick, chief executive of CVCP, and Sir Brian Fender, chief executive of HEFCE, made it clear that the Equality Challenge Unit will not focus solely on the gender issue, and that bolstering the number of women in SET will be lumped into a broader pool of discrimination issues including racial equality and power struggles between administration, research, and technical teams.

BlackLivesMatter was Tweeted 9 million times this year, and the hashtag that started on social media, has become a social calling card for social justice and racial equality activists across the U.S. Thanks for Signing Up!

The basic idea which had inspired the very creation of OkInterracial.com is the equality of everyone and equal opportunities to overcome the racial boundaries and obstacles on the path to successful family and love.

Filmmaker and actress Whitney Cummings writes on her web page: «An inclusion rider is something actors put into their contracts to ensure gender and racial equality in hiring on movie sets.

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.

In an interview with Indiewire, the filmmaker was direct about the political implications: «You can get on your soapbox, you can push your political agenda or your religious agenda, against gay marriage, against racial equality, but you can't argue about these people in their home... Equality as a concept isn't something I think we ever achieve, it's something we make progress toward, and hope that we don't slip back and lose any of it.

The film, a Cannes favorite that rebooted for awards season at TIFF, is everything that the Academy is chasing after both from the optics perspective — it's a film about equality on all fronts, from racial to gender to marriage — and from an overall logistics perspective, since it's an earnest and straightforward true story with social relevance that will be an undeniable across - the - board hit with viewers of all stripes.

However, no one wants to see pity or grandstanding on equality in the middle of their dumb racial comedy anyway, so by trying to go the noble route in the end, both elements tend to cancel each other out.

He soon emerges as its very charismatic, spiritual leader, founding the Free State of Jones on a quartet of core principles promoting racial equality.

Shanker allied with liberals on trade unionism, public schools, and economic equality, while finding common cause with conservatives on issues like standards, public school choice, racial preferences, bilingual education, and communism.

As a follow - up to # 1 above is diversity, and we are not talking about racial equality, although that playing field certainly gets leveled on live streaming platforms.

When I served as student body president at AU and began working on the issues I had always cared about — gender equity, racial justice, opportunity regardless of economic background, and, yes, LGBTQ equality — it became clear that making a difference in the world wouldn't diminish or dilute my own pain and incompleteness.

But knowing that Whitehead is trying in this book to call our attention to the illusion of freedom and equality in America today, I think Cora also represents the current plight of black women, at the bottom of the pay scale (due to the double whammy of racism and sexism), and with so many of them also forced to make their way on their own, given how racial violence impacts on black men.

On display are documents of the organizing and shaping of the transformative fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the 1960s to the 1970s, as captured by the unblinking eye of surveillance.

LA - based artist Kadir Nelson on his Martin Luther King Jr. cover for The New Yorker: «What happened to his dream of racial and economic equality, and what is the impact of non-violent resistance over half a century later?»

Peaceful grassroots protests for racial equality were met with police violence, as when, in April, high pressure hoses and dogs were turned on students in Birmingham, Alabama.

While their identity as black Americans is not the motivation for their inclusion in the show, this identity is nonetheless significant in that many found themselves marginalized in a white - dominated art world that granted limited admission to black artists and again within the Black Arts movement, which rested on a revolutionary ethos that saw abstraction as a site of established privilege, limited in its ability to express political dissent and contribute to the struggle for racial equality.

When I worked on the exhibition «Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties» [at the Brooklyn Museum in 2014], people were shocked to find that artists like Frank Stella and Jim Dine had done work that was political, that sold in galleries to support racial equality.

The Spiral collective originally formed in response to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963, which drew nearly a quarter of a million advocates for racial equality, and marked a critical turning point in the American civil rights movement.

Organized to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the institution's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the project took on a particular urgency as heated discussions about gender and racial equality in the U.S. roiled through this year's election season.

As employment experts, they all knew that, at her last outing on equality, she had pretty well alleged exactly that, concluding: «So do we need to revive the argument for some special provision, akin to that in Northern Ireland, to enable the appointing commissions to take racial or gender balance into account when making their appointments?

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.

The principle of racial equality, at least on the face of the law, took hold in numerous ways, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Convention on Genocide, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Many others on the other hand were outraged by Kaepernick's stance and saw it instead as a sign of disrespect for the country, the flag, the military, and the police, where others applauded the movement, including fellow NFL players who supported Kaepernick's gesture of racial equality by also taking a knee in solidarity during the national anthem.

Trump's demonization of Mexicans and Muslims foreshadows an assault not only on the safeguards against racial discrimination developed since the 1950s (and which moulded our own equality laws) but even on the fundamental rights of the individual to freedom from arbitrary detention and punishment.

It is now 2018 and we have not moved the dial as much as I thought we would have by now on the issue of racial equality.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (the CERD Committee) has confirmed that in their application to Indigenous peoples, the Convention requires States to comply with a substantive equality standard.

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.

Substantive equality on the other hand not only permits the recognition of difference but may require it where this is necessary to achieve equality between racial groups.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has recognised as aspects of the principle of equality the obligations of States parties to ICERD (inf.)