Sentences with phrase «over human rights»

The Committee's observations and recommendations were a response to the priority given by successive Australian governments to non-Indigenous land use over the human rights of Indigenous people.

Your comments indicate a preference for mineral exploration over the human rights of Indigenous interests.

This is likely in reference to U.S. - led sanctions on the country over human rights violations during a popular uprising in 2014.

Citing Bastarache J. in Tranchemontagne, the Court of Appeal concluded SHRC does not hold exclusive jurisdiction over human rights matters.

Members of the indigenous Mayan Q'eqchi» population from El Estor, Guatemala are pursuing three related precedent - setting lawsuits in Canadian courts against Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals over human rights abuses at HudBay's former Fenix mining project in Guatemala.

Jane Arbour, who retired this past fall after 24 years at the Department of Justice advising federal government departments on domestic and international human rights law, will be taking over the Human Rights... Here & There column, which was on hiatus last year.

This was the first time in Ontario's history where a Superior Court judge decided over a human rights complaint.

We will not stand idly by as Ryan Zinke's Department of the Interior runs roughshod over human rights and climate justice in their zeal to give away this special place to the dirty fuels industry.»

Recently, civil rights leader Wade Henderson described the law as «a triumph of states» rights over human rights.»

He chose economic gain and the juicy prospect of a massive Nigerian market for American goods, products and commodities over human rights and decency.

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani - Kayode has criticized US President Donald Trump, for choosing «economic gain over human rights and decency».

[9] It was also believed that the move would be advantageous to Home Secretary Theresa May, who had sparred with Clarke over the Human Rights Act during «catgate» during the previous October's Conservative Party Conference, and believed to be much closer in ideology to Grayling.

«For months Labour has urged the Government to do more to raise Britain's concern over human rights in Sri Lanka in the run up to the summit,» Mr Alexander said.

The former international development reversed the cut to Rwanda on his last week in the job, despite allegations over its human rights record and involvement in a civil conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The co-ordinated assault by Chris Grayling and Theresa May on the European court of human rights signals an intensifying pre-election battle over human rights legislation within both the Conservative party and the coalition.

Relations in the new coalition Government were strained as dissident Right - wing Tory MPs expressed concern over the compromise over human rights that has been offered to the Lib Dems as part of the coalition pact.

Citing six catalysts - the confusion over human rights and the rule of law, the unprecedented growth of the «database state», devolution and the pressure for greater decentralisation in England, the European Union and globalisation and questions about the eventual succession of Queen Elizabeth II, I predicted that the need for fundamental constitutional change would become unarguable within the next twenty years.

generally the US, and other westen powers, chose political relations over human rights... hmm, why is that so surprising to me?

Many outside the church view us as modern day Puritans — social control freaks who want to impose our morality on them and to oppress people by running roughshod over human rights.

The justices appeared ready to impose new limits on lawsuits brought in U.S. courts over human rights violations abroad.

The West has long ostracized Lukashenko, who has described himself as the «last dictator in Europe», over his human rights record and his clampdown on political dissent, and has imposed economic sanctions on some Belarussian officials and companies.

It is asked that right to human security prevails over human right against torture or indefinite detention without trial.

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.

Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court opened its new term Monday with a high - stakes dispute between businesses and human rights groups over accountability for foreign atrocities.

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has shown little interest in defending anything but capitalism over the years, but in 2012 he participated in a video produced by Human Rights Campaign in favour of same - sex marriage.

Restoration of relations would be the latest phase in a normalization process, which is expected to move slowly because of lingering problems over issues such as Cuba's human rights record.

The companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners to use religious objections to deny same - sex couples wedding.

Chinese state media also praised May for her wisdom and pragmatism in sidestepping calls to challenge Beijing over issues of human rights and Hong Kong's sovereignty.

A new book on the Canadian workplace — Work on Trial: Canadian Labour Law Struggles, edited by Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker — provides an engaging and accessible account of various labour battles in the courts over the past 85 years involving human rights, employment fairness and union recognition.

By clarifying the legal test and strengthening the obligation on employers to accommodate their workers, the Meiorin ruling has become the most influential workplace human rights decision over the past 20 years.

Described by the New York Times «a super-specialist» in human rights activism, Simon Billenness has over 25 years of experience in advising investors on shareholder advocacy.

The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

In the right set of circumstances, many multiples of that amount could incrementally flow into gold, a simple product that has been innately understood for millennia by human beings all over the globe.

-- GQ, «Steve Bannon Is Hatching His Comeback,» by Ben Schreckinger: «These days, he no longer runs Breitbart News, but Bannon remains holed up at the company's Capitol Hill headquarters, plotting the next stage of his right - wing populist revolution and brooding over the course of human events.

The river's clean waters serve as the wellspring in what has steadily become one of the storied confrontations over energy development, justice, finance, and human rights in the American West.

Over the last few years Canadian HR Reporter webinars have been recognized as an industry standard and include partnerships with a number of leading organizations including the Human Resources Professionals Association, the Human Resources Institute of Alberta, the Human Resources Association of New Brunswick and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

It's so tempting to get right down to business when talking with employees over the phone or on a video conference, but the beginnings of those interactions are a great time to connect with one another on a human level.

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.

After persistently chipping away at Chile's amnesty law, human - rights lawyers secured over 250 convictions for human - rights violators of the Pinochet period.

Right, Yeshua was a deluded individual that inspired billions of people from various religions and of no religion, transforming lives that were very destructive and turning people into decent human beings — for over 2000 years.

People today are so preoccupied with making it illegal to even roll your eye's at the thought of gay marriage meanwhile over the last 10 years the powers that be have removed some of the most basic human rights that even Muslim countries have!

When Pope John Paul II spoke on the occasion of the fiftieth birthday of the UDHR in 1998, he warned, «Certain shadows however hover over the anniversary, consisting in the reservations being expressed in relation to two essential characteristics of the very idea of human rights: their universality and their indivisibility.»

What would throwing the democratic Taiwanese over the side for the sake of a deal with communist Beijing say about the Vatican's commitment to human rights and democracy?

While glad to see the change of attitude among conservative Christians with respect to gay civil rights and acceptance of gays as human beings, some persons were troubled over other aspects of the issue.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Kurdish officials say more than 40 of the ISIS fighters were killed as Kurdish forces reclaimed the city over the weekend.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

A first element is the unconditionality with which human rights and human dignity should be presented as values that take precedence over any state jurisdiction.