Sentences with phrase «protect human dignity»

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Early this year Benedict XVI stated that with in vitro fertilization, «the barrier that served to protect human dignity has been violated.»

Globalized economies dominated by mega-bureaucratic states inadequately protect human dignity.

It recognizes that strong government institutions are essential for making and enforcing laws to protect human dignity.

He argued that these «clearly show that with extra-corporeal artificial fertilization, the barrier that served to protect human dignity has been violated.

For all the high - minded notions about human rights that are prevalent in British society, it would appear that this has been no substitute for religion when it comes to protecting human dignity.

«Living the Gospel of Life» readily allows that there are many issues — e.g., racism, poverty, employment, education, housing, health care — pertinent to protecting human dignity.

The upsurge in xenophobia is a stark reminder that the human rights framework — protecting human dignity and ensuring equal treatment — is a compass in times of crisis.

This book highlights eight key ministries: protecting human dignity, responding to natural disasters, seeking justice, bearing witness, making a pilgrimage, feeding the hungry, creating sacred spaces, and educating youth.

This, turn, is one of the ways in which law protects human dignity, as Jeremy Waldron points out.

Not exact matches

Or to put it more generously, the RFRA is designed to protect religious freedom, and to protect it even when your religion requires you to do something bad, such as violating another human being's right to be treated with dignity and respect.

As we look to the 150th anniversary of our Confederation, we are reminded that ours is a rich inheritance: a legacy of freedom; the birthright of all humanity and the courage to uphold it; the rule of law, and the institutions to protect it; respect for human dignity and diversity.

It would be better, we think, to use the new means at hand to reduce human suffering as much as we can while protecting human freedom and dignity.

Perhaps John of Salisbury would remind us today that the only laws in conformity with equity are those that protect the sacredness of human life and reject the licitness of abortion, euthanasia and bold genetic experimentation, those laws that respect the dignity of marriage between a man and a woman, that are inspired by a correct secularism of the State, a secularism that always entails the safeguard of religious freedom and that pursues subsidiarity and solidarity at both the national and the international level.

We affirm democracy as the type of government that holds the most promise for the just and good ordering of society and that best protects human rights and dignity.

Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Desmond Tutu, Dorothy Day, the French Protestants who resisted fascism and protected Jews, Buddhist monks in Vietnam and many, many others were led by their religious convictions to fight for human dignity and human rights.

What is needed, now as ever, are forms of asceticism, forms of discipline that protect human beings from these pressures and help to preserve the manifestations of human dignity and the forms of community that dignity makes possible.

They also serve as a bridge language that allows Catholics to join forces with men and women of good will to protect and promote human dignity.

From «Protecting Human Rights and Dignity by Taking Into Account Previously Expressed Wishes of Patients:»

The negative goals liberals pursue can be summarized under the heading of the avoidance of evil: to protect the liberty of individuals from «dictatorship, torture, poverty, intolerance, repression, discrimination, lawlessness,» and other affronts to human dignity.

We give witness that the Church's teachings — on the dignity of the human person and the value of human life from conception to natural death; on the meaning of human sexuality, the significance of sexual difference and the complementarity of men and women; on openness to life and the gift of motherhood; and on marriage and family founded on the indissoluble commitment of a man and a woman — provide a sure guide to the Christian life, promote women's flourishing, and serve to protect the poor and most vulnerable among us.

The right to food is a fundamental human right protecting the right for people to feed themselves in dignity.

I have formulated my own ranking for human dignity and its components based on a score from 1 to 5, with 1 meaning the indicator is completely absent and 5 meaning that the particular indicator of human dignity has been fully integrated into society and is fully protected by the law and the state.

Now is the time for parliamentarians to reform the law to one that upholds people's fundamental human right to die with dignity, in a manner of their choosing, and protects those who are motivated by compassion to assist another's death.»

Public health and human rights are complementary — and, at times, conflicting — approaches to protecting and promoting human well - being and dignity.

And so I wouldn't say it scares me, but I would say that there are going to be some really tough issues for society to deal with [regarding] where privacy and human dignity begin and the right of the larger group to protect itself ends.

She indicated that five states and over 20 countries have similar complete bans on cloning and that the United Nations has urged its member nations to enact such bans to preserve human dignity and protect women's health.

We need today to redouble our efforts to protect the human rights and dignity of the most vulnerable groups of children in the world — those living in conflict situations and fragile states.

Within this perspective, Paul Weis describes refugees as «a vessel on the open sea, not sailing under any flag ’23 while Hannah Arendt observed that refugees are without rights because each nation - state has primary obligation to protect the rights, interests and expectations of its own citizens first, no matter where they are.24 However, both international and national refugee laws are adopted with the sole aim to ensure entitlement of the basic rights, proclaimed under a range of human rights conventions.25 Under these conventions, respect for human dignity of each and every human person is underlined as a foundation to freedom, justice and peace.

Provide supports to teachers, administrators and other educational staff to address discipline challenges in a way that protects students» human rights to education and dignity; and

The DSC Model Code on Education and Dignity presents a set of recommended policies to schools, districts, and legislators to help end school pushout and protect the human rights to education, dignity, participation and freedom from discrimiDignity presents a set of recommended policies to schools, districts, and legislators to help end school pushout and protect the human rights to education, dignity, participation and freedom from discrimidignity, participation and freedom from discrimination.

To implement this moratorium, Solutions Not Suspensions, a grassroots initiative of students, educators, parents, and community leaders, is calling on states and districts to support teachers and schools in dealing with discipline in positive ways - keeping students in the classroom and helping educators work with students and parents to create safe and engaging classrooms that protect human rights to education and dignity.

Why don't you protect the basic human dignity or the rights of art?

If privacy is more broadly understood as deriving from human dignity then it can be viewed as a facilitator rather than detractor of accessibility and comport with the court's various duties (to foster transparency and to protect litigants and control its documents).

Rule 2.1 - 1 of the Law Society's Rules of Professional Conduct requires a lawyer «to carry on the practice of law and discharge all responsibilities to clients, tribunals, the public and other members of the profession honourably and with integrity» and Commentary 4.1 to that Rule imposes «special responsibility to recognize the diversity of the Ontario community, to protect the dignity of individuals, and to respect human rights laws in force in Ontario.

COPOH will submit that the right to choose who will assist oneself in dressing, bathing and toileting («basic dignity») and the right to privacy in relation to personal dignity is a basic right accorded to all human beings and protected as part of «security of the person» under s. 7 of the Charter.

These organizations focus on clients» most basic human needs: preserving housing, protecting subsistence income, obtaining access to health care, providing food and clothing for families and maintaining safety, independence, and dignity.

In this particular case, the AG finds that a refusal to issue a visa with limited territorial validity will expose the applicants to a substantial risk of having their rights as protected by Articles 1 (right to human dignity), 2 (right to life), 3 (right to the integrity of the person), 4 (prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment), and 24 (2)(the child's best interest) of the Charter.

In doing so, it shall take account of the dignity of living beings as well as the safety of human beings, animals and the environment, and shall protect the genetic diversity of animal and plant species.

On Thursday, April 26, CPCS had the pleasure of honoring exceptional members of our community — attorneys from the public and private counsel divisions, as well as a social worker, investigator and administrative professional — who work tirelessly to insure that CPCS meets our mission: to fight for equal justice and human dignity by supporting our clients in achieving their legal and life goals; to zealously advocate for the rights of individuals; and to promote just public policy to protect the rights of all.

Notably, a deterrent sentence following a conviction for the assisted suicide of a disabled person, would also have the effect of providing reassurance to other disabled persons in society that the judicial system will be vigilant in ensuring that their lives will be protected and that their dignity and self - respect as human beings will be fostered.

In other words, the argument by the three lawyers in the case at hand that verification is contrary to the human dignity, integrity, and private life protected by the Charter finds support in queer approaches to individual autonomy.

The recommendations fail to address sexual violence from the perspective of human rights law such as the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees not only the right to be protected against discrimination and harassment based on gender, race and sexual orientation, among others, but also the right to life and the security of the person, the right to dignity, honor and the integrity of the person, and the right to prihuman rights law such as the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees not only the right to be protected against discrimination and harassment based on gender, race and sexual orientation, among others, but also the right to life and the security of the person, the right to dignity, honor and the integrity of the person, and the right to priHuman Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees not only the right to be protected against discrimination and harassment based on gender, race and sexual orientation, among others, but also the right to life and the security of the person, the right to dignity, honor and the integrity of the person, and the right to privacy.

The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed the importance of this guiding principle in stating that the presumption of innocence protects the fundamental liberty and human dignity of any and every person accused by the State of criminal conduct.

The presumption of innocence protects the fundamental liberty and human dignity of any person accused by the state of criminal conduct.

Our special responsibility as members of the legal profession to protect the dignity of all individuals, and to respect human rights laws in force in Ontario;

However, human dignity is not western, eastern, northern nor southern; it's not Christian nor non-Christian, as absurd as this may appear, such a Convention as the one proposed by the ILO to protect domestic workers is rooted in the protection of human dignity and that's a «human thing».